Try sucking on lemonn wedges or raw ginger to reset your taste buds.
I have lost my sense of taste and smell yesterday. I got a flu and ate flu medicine then i couldn't taste anything afterwards. i cant taste anything sweet or salty. Pineapple which is supposed to be sweet taste bland to me. I made my porridge with a lot of abalone sauce but it taste super bland when it should be salty and delicious. Can anyone help? Will stopping the medicine return my sense of taste? I cant stop the medicine because my parents are afraid i will spread the flu to them
i have finished the antibiotics and i have recovered my sense of taste
I am going through the same thing. No taste for anything sweet. People look at me like I have two heads whenever I tell them. Did you get your taste back, how long did it take, and did you find the cause?
You are correct. It is not a good thing as some have remarked to me. My loss of sweet taste happened suddenly about two weeks before Christmas 2015. Really bad timing, as I was just gearing up to do my holiday baking. I was never sick, had no surgeries, and no mouth infections or extractions. Nothing that we can pin point could have caused it. Even had blood drawn to look for zinc and B12 deficiencies. Nothing. Please fill me in if your situation has cleared up. This is not good. Until you lose you sense of sweet, you will never understand, right?
I may be able to offer a potential cause. I have recently started having trouble with my sense of taste. It started around a month ago, along with some other health issues. One day I just suddenly couldn't taste very well. I only have taste at the very tip of my tongue and the very very back so mostly I only taste my food when i swallow. Everything tastes bland.
3-4 months before this started I had one of my old mercury fillings removed without any precautions taken to prevent me from swallowing it or breathing it in. Apparently this is worse than keeping the filling in because of the amount you are exposed to from the drilling into the toxic substance. The heat from the drill releases the mercury. Mercury can cause damage to your nerves anywhere in your body, it can also cause inflammation, which can block nerve signals.
After making the connection between the dental work and my symptoms, i had my heavy metals tested. It turns out that I'm high on mercury and off-the-charts on lead! Those two metals are synergistic so if you have both it's way way worse than having one. They amplify each other. I have no idea where the lead came from.
I would suggest for the people having taste issues to get your heavy metals tested.
My taste did improve after the initial loss. I have just started chelating to remove the metals, and my taste has gotten worse again. I'm hoping it's only temporary as my system clears the toxins. I will try to report back as I progress.
Hope this helps someone.
3-4 months before this started I had one of my old mercury fillings removed without any precautions taken to prevent me from swallowing it or breathing it in. Apparently this is worse than keeping the filling in because of the amount you are exposed to from the drilling into the toxic substance. The heat from the drill releases the mercury. Mercury can cause damage to your nerves anywhere in your body, it can also cause inflammation, which can block nerve signals.
After making the connection between the dental work and my symptoms, i had my heavy metals tested. It turns out that I'm high on mercury and off-the-charts on lead! Those two metals are synergistic so if you have both it's way way worse than having one. They amplify each other. I have no idea where the lead came from.
I would suggest for the people having taste issues to get your heavy metals tested.
My taste did improve after the initial loss. I have just started chelating to remove the metals, and my taste has gotten worse again. I'm hoping it's only temporary as my system clears the toxins. I will try to report back as I progress.
Hope this helps someone.
I thought the same thing, but it's very depressing!
OMG! I had some mandarin vodka this weekend and that's when my issue started! How do I fix it? So sad!
Hi - I am like a lot of people here - about 3 weeks ago i started to notice that my favorite foods were starting to taste very "flat" and over time I really could not taste "sweet" or "salty" foods. They also had a slight metallic taste to them. All fruits tasted horrible - tangerines, mango, bananas.. I could taste sour food - vinegar foods was all I could really taste. All I could find on the web was conditions that ranged from Sinus Infections, Stuffy noses to Dementia and Bell's Palsy. I had zero nasal congestion and so I figured it was either a medication I was taking or a supplement. I pulled back on all my vitamin supplements but I did keep Zinc and Vitamin B12 which I had read that if you were deficient in those, it could cause a loss in taste. It was really making me depressed. I love food. I love to cook. It seems like such a large joy in my life was starting to evaporate. Just thinking about meals was turning my stomach. Suddenly, I realized that I had started around the same time a new toothpaste - Crest 3D Whitening... I did see that several people had experienced an "allergic" reaction to the toothpaste... I think in general people can develop allergic reactions to their toothpaste's. I have given up the toothpaste for 1 day and I can already tell I am starting to taste better. I did a "coconut oil pull" treatment this morning also just to make sure I was removing any remaining toxin's from the toothpaste.. Just suggesting try switching to a plain jane toothpaste for a few days and see if that works.
I lost my ability to taste sweetness after a vodka + purple koolaid mix binge (I was a teen when it happened, no I didn't have a ton of common sense). Lasted about a week. Everything tasted so weird. You're not alone.
I had this happen a few years back and it lasted a year and now it's back again. I wonder if being on antibiotics caused this. I finished them a few weeks ago and now it started.
I am experiencing the same exact think. I had this a few years back and it lasted about a year and now here I am again. So upsetting
Similar experience. Had kidney stones 3 weeks ago. No sweet taste since. Smells are fine. I can smell it but can't taste it. Hmmm. Maybe the drugs?
Me as well. I had my teeth professionally bleached and can't taste anything for the last two months
Same with me. It's been 4 weeks. I've had a course of fungal lozenges from doctor in case I had fungus on my tongue. Didn't work. What next?