Why We Feel Bitter Tongue Pain?

Why We Feel Bitter Tongue Pain?

When the body is less healthy, often all the food tastes bitter. Sweet food though, it seems to be as bitter herbs so that your appetite is reduced.

Bitter sensation on the tongue alone is usually not present. The symptoms are always present accompanies other conditions that dry mouth and bad breath.

To note, the food should be dissolved with saliva to be perceived by the tongue. Therefore, if the mouth is dry, the ability of the tongue to taste will also be reduced.

Excerpted from The Breath, Wednesday (05/05/2010), dry mouth is generally caused by reduced production of saliva for many reasons. Saliva matters little oxygen is also reduced, thus triggering the growth of anaerobic bacteria.

These bacteria produce sulfur gases in large numbers and cause bad breath is not good. The bacteria itself can also cause the sensation of bitterness on the tongue.

Some people have a tongue with more rough surface, making them 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 Drs. Rob Danoff of Frankford Hospitals, quoted from MSN on 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 has the flu, fever, sinusitis, nasal infections, polyps, and allergic rhinitis. Although the tongue to function properly, the ability to taste would be problematic because the nose can not smell well.

Still according to Dr. Rob, other factors that cause a bitter tongue, among others:


   1. Drugs (anti-thyroid, zinc preparations, antibiotics, drugs nerves, etc.)
   2. Radiation and chemotherapeutic 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 infection 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 by 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 scented citrus juice (tomatoes, oranges, etc.)
   3. Avoid coffee and cigarettes
   4. Use a mouthwash for 90 seconds / day
   5. Drink 8 glasses / day
   6. Diligently taking vitamin C every day.