What causes a salty taste?

It is quite common for people to have a salty taste in their mouth. There are many reasons for this, such as throat inflammation, oral ulcers, abnormal kidney function, etc. It is recommended to go to the hospital to check what causes the salty taste in your mouth, and receive symptomatic treatment after a confirmed diagnosis. Many people don’t know what causes the salty taste in their mouth. What causes the salty taste? Let’s take a look at it next, shall we?

1. What causes the salty taste?

1. Salty mouth is generally considered to be a feeling in people with pharyngitis, oral ulcers, chronic nephritis, and renal damage. They often have a salty feeling in their mouth, as if they are holding pickles. It is related to the increase of sodium, calcium, and magnesium content in saliva.

2. People with diabetes will have this feeling, but not everyone will experience it. Diabetic patients drink a lot, are thirsty, urinate frequently, and become emaciated.

3. As the saying goes, "The nose smells fragrance and odor, and the tongue tastes the five flavors." Information about the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty is transmitted through the densely distributed tiny papillae on the tongue, called taste cells of the tongue buds, which are then excited via the taste center in the cerebral cortex, and the entire taste analysis activity is completed by the feedback loop neurohumoral system. However, some people have a bad taste in their mouth when they eat, or they feel an unusual taste in their mouth even when they are not eating. This often indicates a possible illness.

4. This situation may also occur due to tongue taste bud lesions, neuropathy, etc.

2. Pay attention to the following two points:

First, taste abnormalities are related to factors such as age, gender, mood, and temperature. Only after these factors are eliminated can it be linked to disease. For example, the sensitivity of taste varies from person to person: children are more sensitive than adults, young people are more sensitive than the elderly, and women are more sensitive than men. For the same person, the sensitivity of taste is stronger at night than in the morning. Emotions are also related to taste. When you are angry, fearful, anxious, sad, or tired, your sense of taste will decrease. Long periods of hunger will cause your sense of taste to temporarily fail, resulting in a poor taste for food. Temperature also affects taste. People's sense of taste is most sensitive between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius. In addition, smoking, excessive drinking, lack of sleep, etc. can also lead to abnormal taste.

Second, taste abnormalities are sometimes related to poor oral hygiene or taste variations caused by the temporary effects of external substances on the taste buds. These do not fall within the scope of taste variation. For example, some toothpastes contain sodium lauryl sulfate, which can make the sour taste in orange juice taste sweet.

3. Notes

Pay attention to oral hygiene at ordinary times.