posted 12-30-2002 06:01 PM            

My recommendation would be for you to gather a list of all medications and vitamin/mineral/herbal supplements that your mother takes, and go to your most trusted pharmacist. Often, in my experience, a pharmacist is much more up-to-date on and knowledgable about side effects and the rate of occurence of various side effects.

Obviously, if your pharmacist is busy, etc, you could call your mother's doctor's nurse and ask her to find out about some possible reasons for the taste.

If worse comes to worse, you can sit down with the list of medicines and search the internet for side effect information on each one.

I believe that I have also read of some more serious causes of metallic taste. Therefore, if you carefully check each of her medications and/or supplements, and none have an indication of metallic taste as a side effect, I would recommend that your mother sees her physician. The doctor would probably run some tests and be able to put your minds at ease.

Good luck! I hope she is okay!

posted 01-07-2003 11:57 PM            

1. blood in your mouth tastes metallic...any bleeding gums or infection?

2. yeast in your mouth can taste metallic...a sign of yeast infection is a white film on your tongue in the morning.

3. if the metallic taste comes after coughing then it can be a lung infection.

4. thyroid problems can cause a metallic taste because of an over accululation of iodine