What drugs can cause abnormal taste

-ChengHuaiMeng HeJianShi people's hospital in hebei province

    Some long-term observed in patients always feel mouth have peculiar smell, this is probably a drug caused by the obstacles, usually caused by the taste of taste obstacles of the following categories:

    Taste: the loss or decline of sour, sweet, bitter, salty taste feel or feel drops. Cause loss or taste the deterioration of common drugs have acetaminophen, ampicillin, clarithromycin, shmi ding, for cortical hormone, losartan, lovastatin, metformin, metronidazole, etc.

     Taste: the total feel abnormal mouth obvious sweet, bitter, sour, metallic taste, etc. Can cause mouth sweet the drug was amine and enalapril acetaminophen, 5-fluorouracil, speed, etc; nifedipine urine Can cause bitter medicine is the mouth benzene ethylene-propylene amine, aspirin, carbamazepine, clarithromycin, 5-fluorouracil, nitric acid different sorbitol, levodopa, general lignocaine amine; robust Can cause mouth sour drug benzocaine, etc.; Can cause mouth metallic taste of drug ceftriaxone, procedures are: butanol, losartan, metformin, metronidazole, nifedipine, minocycline, etc.

    Drugs cause abnormal taste most are in long-term drug appeared, everyone slowly after different levels. Drugs cause abnormal have DuoZhong mechanism of taste, the main reason is the drugs and the body of the zinc combined to form not soluble substances, eliminated from the body in the body, cause abnormal taste zinc deficiency. Most drug withdrawal in, can return to normal soon, a few drugs in after withdrawal, to last for weeks or months.

    Improve the taste is caused by abnormal drug can be used the method of zinc supplementation, take every day 25 ~ 100 mg zinc, usually eat more contain high quantity of zinc foods, such as pig blood, pig liver, sesame, soybean, etc.