Tasting Disorders

The most common taste complaint is phantom taste perceptions. Some people can detect no tastes at all, but true taste loss is rare, and the perceived loss usually reflects a smell loss. Some patients suffer from distortion of taste, such as detecting a foul taste from a substance that is normally pleasant. Taste and smelling disorders are rare. They occur in about 7 % of the population. And then it mostly is a smelling disorder in stead of tasting disorder.

Taste disorder:
You can not taste the food or drink proparly.
Everything tastes the same or has a strange dirty taste.

Ageusia :
A total loss of taste

Hypogeusia:
A reduced ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.

Dysgeusia of Phantogeusia:
Phantom taste perception: you taste something while your taste papillae are not stimulated by any food or drink.

Parageusia:
Everything tastes strange: salt or sometimes even like metal.

Hypergeusia:
You are very sensitive to any kind of taste.

Xerostomia :
A dry mouth, less or nosaliva(spit) production.

Burning Mouth:
Your tongue hurts and there is dysgeusia: a strange or dirty taste in your mouth.