Bitter taste in mouth

For almost a week, I am feeling a bitter taste in the back of my mouth, for no good reason. It happened once, when I was polishing brass and I may have tasted a small amount of brass powder, but nothing like this occurred this time.

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Ignoramus31412
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have you taken any antibiotics? I had this after oral implant surgery, and it was almost certainly a side effect of the antibiotics - it's

*almost* back to normal now (4 months later). I'm not 100% convinced that it doesn't have something to do with the titanium implants, though.
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rangerssuck

No, nothing of the sort, no new medication.

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Ignoramus31412

Have you found your knife yet? Maybe it's in your head.

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Wild_Bill

get one of these at walgreens and see what happens

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the nasty PVC smell from the white tube can be washed off with lots of water and some soaking.

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Cydrome Leader

If you haven't been doing anything different, or eating anything different, go to the doctor.

They'll either dispel your fears, or get treatment for whatever it is that's happening to you.

A week is _WAY_ too long to have an unexplained bitter taste in your mouth "for no good reason."

But first, see what's changed recently - been buying a different brand of foodstuffs? Any changes in shop procedure? New coolant? Burning motors?

Good Luck! Rich

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Rich Grise

Brass is Copper and Zink. Try drinking milk, that's supposed to be the treatment for ingesting Zink while welding galvanized. But, it might be just an old-wives tale.

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Tom Gardner

"Ignoramus31412" wrote in message news:rbudnVxaxIoSlfbQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com...

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Regards,

Edward Hennessey

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Edward Hennessey

I had similar from longish term sleeping tablets. It took a couple of months before foult aste started. It stopped a few days after stopping the mdeication.

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Dennis

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Hi Ed, I think that you nailed it.

It was those PINE NUTS that my wife bought recently at Trader Joe's.

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You and Google get a prize!

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Ignoramus28206

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Some more on same:

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``Risks of eating pine nuts A small minority of pine nuts cultivated in China can cause taste disturbances, lasting between few days to maximal a week after consumption. A bitter, metallic taste is described. Though unpleasant, there are no lasting effects. This phenomenon was first described in a scientific paper in 2001[11]. Some publications have made reference to this phenomenon as "pine mouth"[12]. The Nestle Research Centre has hypothesized that a particular species of Chinese pine nuts, Pinus armandii, is the cause of the problem. The suspect species of pine nuts are smaller, duller, and more rounded than typical pine nuts[13]. This finding has recently been confirmed[14]. In 1998 the FAO published a list of edible tree nuts, containing 29 species of pine nuts that are regullarly consumed somewhere in the world[15] and the aforementioned Chinese pine species were not included. Metallic taste disturbance, known as metallogeusia, is typically reported 1?3 days after ingestion, being worse on day 2 and lasting typically up to

2 weeks. Cases are self-limited and resolve without treatment[16] Möller[17] has postulated an hypothesis that could explain why the bitter taste appears several days after ingestion and lasts for as long. A well known physiological process known as enterohepatic recirculation (EHR) could play a key role in the development of PNS.''

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``A colleague anaesthesiologist experienced two episodes of taste disturbances after pine nut ingestion. At the first time, he just consumed a handful of pine nuts. Two days later, he developed an episode of taste disturbances (bitter, metallic taste). The disturbances lasted a few days. He made a link between pine nuts and the taste disturbances after the second episode when his wife and friends who shared with him a dish prepared with the same pine nuts complained of a persisting bitter taste sensation 2 days after the meal. Examination of the pine nuts revealed they were oxidized and not fit for consumption.''

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So, what you and The Boss should do is go out into the forest and collect wild pine nuts! :-)

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

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Switch to GENUINE NEW MEXICO Pinon (the n needs a ~ over it) nuts. :-) ...lew...

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Lewis Hartswick

I came home and want to correct myself. These are Chinese pine nuts from Costco.

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Ignoramus28206

Lewis Hartswick fired this volley in news:Iq- dncHZt7dXpvHQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

Or Italian pinoli. (Pinus pinea)

LLoyd

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh

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OhshityouatethepinenutsproduceddownwindofChernobyl...

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Larry Jaques

"Ignoramus28206" wrote in message news:-eudncrQmefa3fHQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com...

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Tovarich:

You're quite welcome and happy to help. If a person has the brain and time, doing your own research beats a doctor who may neglect to put the right question--or not know enough to ask it.

I was a tad worried you might have had contact with beryllium bronze but your expertise and the divergence of symptomatology removed that from consideration.

Watch out for those bitter almonds though:

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you communicate your experience to the Costco buyers, you'll do all of us fruit and nut eaters a favor.

Regards,

Edward Hennessey

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Edward Hennessey

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Right, in addition to being extremely fattening, too many nuts can be harmful to your health. Cheers to aflatoxin, cyanide, selenium, allergies, and more!

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Larry Jaques

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