Aguesia (Loss Of Tongue's Taste Buds)

Definition:
It's the complete loss of tongue's taste buds .. so that the patient feels nothing of the taste of food ...

Prognosis:
It's not good enough.

Treatment:
1- Artificial saliva and pilocarpine
2- altering the treatment if the cause is a certain therapy.
3- zinc supplements if there is deficiency.
4- zinc infusion with chemotherapy is the patient is treating from cancer.
5- Alpha lipoic acid.

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