Meghan Trainor seeks medical help for mysterious burning tongue syndrome

Meghan Trainor is all about that bass when it comes to her vocals, but her lyrically inclined tongue is causing some trouble along the way.

The pop star opened up on a new episode of the Workin’ On It podcast that she recently sought medical help for a mysterious condition called burning tongue syndrome, after she experienced sustained pain on the tip of her tongue with no apparent cause.

“I’m sick. Yet again. But, I’m not on antibiotics, I’m going to fight it,” 31-year-old said at the top of the show, indicating she was also battling a cold that passed through her home, from her husband, Daryl Sabara, to their son, Barry.

She later explained that her “tongue is still burning” for an unknown reason, and that she went to a dentist to help her.

“If anyone knows why my tip of my tongue is burning with no white patches or anything — you can barely see anything,” the “All About That Bass” singer said, indicating that the dentist told her of the condition.

She added that she’s been “doing the mouthwash more than four times a day” to find relief, but it’s not working.

“You do it as needed it’s not helping. It’s not working. I’m on day three. She goes, ‘My last patient said after two swishes, she was fine, so you’ll heal right up,'” Trainor recalled. “I’m like, I’m on day three, so when’s the healing right up gonna happen?”

She also told the audience that she’s “a little concerned” and “a little worried” at her tongue’s lack of progress on the matter.

While the Mayo Clinic doesn’t specifically list a disorder called burning tongue syndrome, it does highlight another called burning mouth syndrome. The organization describes it as “ongoing or recurring burning in the mouth without an obvious cause” on the “tongue, gums, lips, inside of your cheeks, roof of your mouth or large areas of your whole mouth.” It also notes that the pain is comparable to a feeling “as if you injured your mouth with a very hot drink.”

Trainor said that she’s treading carefully, as she’s not sure why she’s enduring difficulties with health conditions as of late.

“I’m having a great time in life other than this. My body’s just mad at me and I don’t know why,” she said. “I’m so tired. I’m trying everything. I’m gluten free, I’m dairy free, I’m egg yolk free.”

She finished by saying, “I’m like, I feel incredible, but my immune system does not feel incredible.”

Trainor also previously shared details of her home life with Sabara on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast in 2024, telling the host that the couple share a peculiar two-toilet space in their bathroom, but that she planned on improving it when they moved to a new home.

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“We’re moving into a new house, and it has a toilet facing this way, and a bidet across from it,” she said at the time. “So I need to make this [bidet] a toilet. So it’s gonna be a little different, but it’s a tighter bathroom area, so we will be close. Knees to knees.”

Watch Trainor discuss burning tongue syndrome in the podcast video above.