Drugs that can cause Mouth Problems

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Healthline is a searchable database for medically related info. It is free and you don't have to register. I think they are impressive. On the level with Medscape for quality of information. Great source of info and I trust them

The search term I used was "Taste and smell from drugs and chemo". The querry pulled many articles. These are evidence bases. I left the entire list intact. As aberration of taste and smell are caused and solved in many ways. I think it is better for you to see what the reading shows.

The first link is to the reading list. It pulled 84 with those key words. I don't expect you to read 84 articles. Sift.

https://www.healthline.com/search?q1=taste%20an%20smell%20from%20drugs%20and%20chemo

The following is a link to the Healthline home page:

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The home remedies below are alternative & complimentary medicine approaches. I included the pages here b/c they give you things to use versus talking about theoretical or drug correction.

They're two items, I have concerns with. The first recommendation is castor oil and another recommendation is Vicks vapor rub being put in the nostrils. The concern about both is that they are oil based. They could be inhaled into the lungs. That is very bad. The lung isn't designed for this. I recommend skipping vicks and castor oil. The other recommendations I have run across in other sources over the years, they can't do any harm.

But as in all things check with your doctor. AND your pharmacist. Pharmacists now have data bases that can check for herbal and food interactions.

Home Remedies for Loss of Smell and Taste

https://www.top10homeremedies.com/home-remedies/home-remedies-for-loss-of-smell-and-taste.html

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Kimchee I'm interested in this asain drug. I found it it the first articles discussion section I'll be back

Kimchee info isn't easy to get the whole story. Basically it's a 1000+ year old recipe from Korea. It's salted and fermented vegetables. Some of the 180 recipes have salted fish. It was placed in ceramic jars and buried during the winter months. Bottom line it's like our canning. In later centuries red chiles were added when the were brought by proteguese traders.

There appears to be a Kimchee sauce. But I haven't located it. I am making a guess that because it's spicy, if taste is present it will stimulate the taste and olfactory senses is because it is at a very high threshold. I'm quitting searching on this b/c there is nothing that is conclusive with many contradictory articles.

Final thought: Threshold. In the application of the word for tasting or smelling. Think of a 0- 180 degree spectrum.

0>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>180

normal>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not so good>>>>>>>>>>>>>>none

I would love to taste and smell at normal. Only happened twice in my adult memory. 1 I was pregnant. Prego's are known to haave heightened taste and smell. How it occurs, hormones. Protective of the species. 2. we moved from the north-Ohio to Florida in 1992. For 3 weeks I could smell and taste normal. Nirvhana. Then went back to the old ways.

That's where threshold comes in. I cook with heavier spicing, and citruses. Many of the items on the old remedy list are drinking or cooking items. I use them heavily.

Here's a Jimmy Flay recipe for Kimchee salad

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/kimchee-salad-recipe-1942560

sas-schatzi

Well, well, well................new learning. Plus, a world expert. Barb Stuckey. She is a primo and star of the smell and taste world

But he hasn't written a book about taste and smell loss related to head injury and Chemo drugs. So, I will call her and see what's up.

I reviewed her site from "About to Notes" She's a world wiz women. What's incredibly nice in her "notes" section I she has a bibliography about each chapter in her book. Not sure I've ever seen it done. Already forgot the chapter, but it's a later one. It mentions radiation therapy and methinks there was a mention of Thyroid cancer.

You would think that would be any easy memory b/c I had TC.

Lot 's of hormonal stuff. So my sense of smell being prego, her book does much to explain it. I did however verify that when I was prego in 1984. Oh vey, onions were a disaster. Chocolate malts divine and DEvine

http://barbstuckey.com/about/

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" Barb's daily job at Mattson requires her to taste food and figure out how to make it better. After more than a decade of doing this, she's honed her tasting skills and her ability to help others make food taste better. She has shared this insight with the world in her first book, Taste What You're Missing, published by Simon & Schuster in hardback in March, 2012 and paperback in March 2013 (under the simplified title Taste). It was the first book about the science of taste written for the general public."

MichaelRetsky

Thanks. I had some taste and smell issues when on leukovorin for a month or so. Tap water had a strange smell.

Michael

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Hi Dr. Retsky, nice to see you here. Seems that your yearly meeting for colon cancer should be coming up. Could you do straw poll.

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