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Symptoms of disease - violation of taste

Violations of taste arise in those cases, when is extremely difficult to determine the taste of any substance at the level of receptor cells taste buds (transportation losses); in the event of damage receptor cells (sensory disturbances), and also damage the taste of afferent nerves and of the Central gustatory analyzer (neurological disorders).

Which diseases there is violation of taste

Transport taste disorders develop in the xerostomia (dry mouth) of different origin, including Sjogren's syndrome, poisoning salts of heavy metals and blockage of taste then bacteria. To restore the taste is important saliva, the receptors.

Sensory taste disorders arise in case of inflammatory and degenerative lesions of the oral cavity, taking certain medications, especially impeding the regeneration of cells, such as cancer, with the radiation therapy in the oral cavity and pharynx, with viral infections, neoplasms, diseases of the endocrine system, and the individual are age-related.

Neurological taste disorders are observed in tumors, trauma, as well as after surgical interventions, as a result of which damage the integrity of the taste of the fibers. Violation of the integrity of taste sensitive fibers leads to degeneration of the taste buds, however, in that case, if the somatosensory afferent fibers saved, this process is not celebrated.

On the basis of complaints of the patient or data objective methods of investigation of violation of taste sensations can be divided into the total ageusia - the failure to distinguish sweet, salty, bitter and sour taste; partial ageusia - violation of the ability to perceive some of the sense of taste; specific ageusia - the failure to distinguish the taste of certain substances; total hypogeusesthesia - a decrease of taste sensitivity to all substances; partial hypogeusesthesia - reduction of gustatory sensitivity to certain substances; dysgeusia - Blowjob taste sensations, i.e., wrong feeling the taste of a certain substance, or the taste sensations in the absence of gustatory stimuli.

Most often confused sour and bitter taste. In some cases this error may be a semantic nature. More often, however, they have a certain physiological or the pathophysiological basis.

From violations of taste we should distinguish between the loss of the ability to distinguish smells in patients with impaired sense of smell, complaining about the loss of taste and smell. For this purpose, they should ask whether they can feel the sweet taste of soda water, salty potato chips, etc.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a violation of taste

• Neurologist

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