Be careful when taste changes

Tongue is an organ that helps the body taste enough sour, sweet, bitter, salty, and spicy tastes, based on tiny nipples distributed very thickly on the tongue surface, with taste buds of the tongue bud to the medial region. Sense of the cerebral cortex is where the taste analysis works.

But some people who eat in the mouth have a different sense of taste or do not eat also have an unusual sense of taste, which may be the possibility of catching a disease.

The expressions may be:

Bitter mouth : Bitter mouth is bitter in the mouth, many are seen in acute inflammation such as hepatitis, biliary inflammation, this is related to the metabolism of bile.

Bitter mouth can also be seen in cancer. People with cancer not only lose their sense of sweets but also have an increasing sense of bitterness with every food, this is related to changing ingredients in saliva and blood circulation problems in the tongue of patient.

According to Oriental medicine, people have a bitter feeling in their mouth, often with headaches, dizziness, red eyes, irritable temperament, constipation, constipation, red tongue and moss and yellow, vein . largely due to liver, heat secretion. People who see bitterness often have heat back and forth, sadness, nausea, boredom, which is not necessary to eat and drink, yellow and red urine is mainly caused by heat in the bile.

Sweet mouth: It is in the mouth that feels sweet, also called ' orange ', even if the boiling water feels sweet or sweet with a little bit sour. Often seen in people with digestive disorders, people with diabetes. Oriental medicine said that sweet mouth is much due to the function of abnormal spleen.

Taste test to diagnose disease (Photo: TTO)

There are two types, a sweet mouth due to the heat of the spleen, mostly due to eating spicy food that produces high internal heat or extrasensory heat that accumulates in the spleen causing, expressing the sweet mouth that is thirsty to drink water, or tongue tongue that produces sores, constipation, red tongue, dry tongue, fast vessels. The type of sweet mouth due to the negative sound of the monk is largely due to old age or long-term illness which causes damage to the spleen, making the two negative air of both the spleen and the spoiled, manifesting as the sweet and dry mouth, drinking water many, short breaths, tired people, unable to eat, bloating, defecation at the time of apples.

Salty mouth: Seeing a lot in chronic strep throat, chronic nephritis, neurological function or neuropathic ulcer. According to Oriental medicine, salty mouths are mostly caused by kidney damage, which is accompanied by fatigue and back pain in the knees, tinnitus head, sweating, sperm, small tongue moss, small pulse called mouth salty due to kidney damage. . If it is cold, limbs, lethargy, tired and tired, go to night tour many times, impotence, thick tongue, deep vein . called salty mouth due to kidney failure.

Sour mouth : It is found in the mouth that has sour taste, many in stomach disease such as stomach ulcers. Oriental medicine said that sour mouth is much due to heat of liver bile absorbed into the spleen, often accompanied by chest tightness, nausea, nausea, after eating, it is full of belly, thin mosses of yellow, vein.

Spicy mouth : The mouth feels spicy or the tip of the tongue feels numb. This phenomenon is often seen in people with high blood pressure. Oriental medicine thinks that spicy mouth is mostly filled with heat or rising fire, often accompanied by symptoms such as coughing up solid yellow sputum, thin yellow tongue moss.

Pale mouth: Is the taste in the mouth decline, self-feel in the mouth bland. Common in people with new infections or at the end of inflammation such as intestinal inflammation, dysentery and other diseases in the digestive system have a long-term fever, there are also cases after major surgery, lack of nutrition.

In addition to the tasteless bland mouth, diminished taste buds are a characteristic of cancer, especially in a middle-aged person, so be alert. Need to distinguish from the case of the elderly, the palate of the degenerate senses, the teeth fall out, not full, also because the jaw bone at the different level makes the chewing food not careful, even to swallow, food is not fully exposed to the sensory head, which leads to a situation where the taste is not known.

Oriental medicine suggests that pale mouth is largely due to weakness of the spleen after illness, weakening of the movement, often accompanied by symptoms of anorexia, tired and limp limbs, abdomen full of bloating, pale tongue and white tongue.

Mouth : This phenomenon is often seen in people with nervous system disease, waking up at night without sleep. Just adjusting the sleeping time can be a kind of mouth to mouth. Attention should be paid to some malignant tumors at the end of much bitter taste.

Fragrant mouth : Self-aromatic fruits are found in severe diabetes (thirsty), need to be taken to hospital immediately for examination and treatment.

Unusual taste is related to the factors of age, gender, emotion, temperature, only after excluding it can think of disease.

The degree of sensitivity to taste varies from person to person, children are stronger than adults and young people are stronger than the elderly.Emotion is also related to taste, anger, fear, worry, grief or fatigue . taste may be reduced, long-term hunger is also temporarily lost sensitivity.

Temperature also affects taste, at 20-30 ^o , the sensitivity of taste is highest.In addition to smoking, heavy drinking, and lack of sleep also make the taste unusual.Other taste buds are often born when poor oral hygiene or the tip of the tongue is affected by external matter such as toothpaste and oral medicine.

Dr. Thanh Quy