Hi..
Welcome to HEALTHCARE MAGIC..
I have gone through your query and can understand your concerns..
As per your complain enlarged
taste buds can occur due to common conditions like burning with hot foods, injury caused with sharp tooth,
tongue bite, deficiency of iron and
vitamin B12, stress etc.
For this you can do warm saline gargles, suck ice pops and take
multivitamin supplements..
The other part of your question is enlarged lymph nodes in neck,and it can occur commonly due to infection in head and neck region while other cause for long standing painless and firm lymph nodes can be due to lymphoma which is a malignant condition..
You need to get a biopsy / FNAC of the lymph nodes done to rule out the exact cause of the enlargement and treatment can be planned accordingly..
In case of infection antibiotics can help while treatment of lymphoma can be done with
chemotherapy and radiotherapy..
As of now you can do warm compresses over the lymph nodes..
Hope this information helps..
Thanks and regards.
Dr. Honey Nandwani Arora.