Do you feel like you can taste the spare change in your pocket? These days, it can be concerning if you lose your sense of taste, but even more alarming when you are left with a metallic taste in your ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Does your mouth taste like you’ve been munching on old coins? There’s a medical name for that: ...

Do you wonder what is causing you to taste blood in your mouth? There are many possible reasons, including certain medications, ear surgery, infections like COVID-19, iron supplements to treat anemia, ...

Our taste buds only detect four basic flavors: salty, sweet, bitter, and sour. But what about when your mouth tastes like metal? This is a pretty common phenomenon known as dysgeusia, according to a ...

As if it wasn't enough that COVID-19 can mess with one's sense of taste and smell, Paxlovid – an antiviral used as treatment – can cause a bad aftertaste. Paxlovid diminishes the severity of COVID-19 ...

The NHS has issued a warning to people experiencing a "metallic" taste in their mouth, urging them not to dismiss the symptom. While there are "lots of possible causes", some may require more ...

Q. Last week, my husband and I came down with COVID-19 even though we’d had our shots and boosters. Both of us were given Paxlovid because we are older people. My husband has COPD, so he was also ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I have a problem that has continued for about three months now. I have a metallic taste in my mouth that affects the flavor of most everything I eat. Sometimes, when I eat certain foods ...

For many of us, the moment we first wake up in the morning isn’t pretty -from messy bed head to drool on our chin and a gross taste in our mouth. But why is it that we get morning breath even though ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am an 80-year-old widow. Five months ago, I started having a metallic taste in my mouth, a sore tongue and a dry mouth. My first thought was that it might be a bad tooth or filling, ...