Why We Feel Pain Bitter Tongues?

When less healthy body, Often bitter taste all the food. Foods that are sweet though, it's become so bitter herbal appetite diminished. Bitter sensation on the tongue alone is usually not present. The symptoms are always present with other conditions that dry mouth and unpleasant breath.

To note, the food should be dissolved with saliva to be perceived by the tongue. Therefore, if your mouth is dry, the ability of the tongue to taste the taste will also be reduced. Excerpted from The Breath, Wednesday (05/05/2010), dry mouth commonly caused by reduced production of saliva for many reasons. Salivary little means of oxygen also decreases, thus triggering the growth of anaerobic bacteria.

These bacteria produce large amounts of sulfur gases and cause an unpleasant mouth odor. The bacteria itself can also cause a bitter sensation on the tongue. Some people have a tongue with a rougher surface, and thus more vulnerable overgrown with bacteria. Because of papillae or bumps on the tongue larger, at first glance looks more white tongue and hairy.

According to Dr. Rob Danoff of Frankford Hospitals, quoted from MSN, Wednesday (05/05/2010), tongue in tasting ability is also closely related to the ability of the nose in the smell.

This bitter tongue usually occurs when someone is having flu, fever, sinusitis, nasal infections, polyps, and allergic rhinitis. Although the tongue to function properly, the ability to taste will be problematic because the nose can not smell well. Still according to Dr. Rob, the other factors that cause a bitter tongue, among others:

1. Drugs (anti-thyroid, zinc preparations, antibiotics, drugs to nerves, etc.)
2. Radiation and chemotherapy drugs
3. Aging (taste and smell function decreases)
4. Medical conditions (Bell's Palsy, Parkinson's, Diabetes, GERD, etc.)
5. Injury to the mouth, nose or head
6. Oral hygiene is not maintained
7. Fungal infections of the tongue or mouth area
8. Cancer in the head or neck

While a few ways you can do to prevent dry mouth, as quoted from The Breath, among others, as follows:

1. Avoid products that contain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (found in some types of shampoos, detergents and toothpaste)
2. Reduce the citrus-flavored juice (tomatoes, oranges, etc.)
3. Avoid coffee and cigarettes
4. Use a mouthwash for 90 seconds / day
5. Drinking eight glasses of water / day
6. Diligent in taking vitamin C every day.