Why can I only taste food I am eating if I blow my nose? I have allergies and even on zyrtec/nasal spray cannot taste?

I have allergies and even on zyrtec/nasal spray cannot taste. It started in the spring with my allergies but has not gone away. I went to an ENT and he did not find polyps and told he to continue zyrtec/nasal spray with no help.

I might have 1 day a month I can taste food but then it goes away. Thanks. Asked by rockyr 38 months ago Similar questions: taste food eating blow nose allergies zyrtec nasal spray Health.

Similar questions: taste food eating blow nose allergies zyrtec nasal spray.

Because 90% of "taste" comes from the ability to smell, as strange as that sounds. That's why everything tastes like sawdust when you have a cold, or any disease affecting your nasal pasage. Schelli's Recommendations Eat-Taste-Heal: An Ayurvedic Cookbook for Modern Living Amazon List Price: $29.95 Used from: $19.99 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 28 reviews) .

Because you taste with your nose It sounds weird, but the sense of flavor really is as much in your nose as in your tongue. Your tongue's sensors are pretty simple: sour, salty, bitter, sweet. Those are all carried by tiny molecules that don't readily evaporate, so you have to bring a sense organ (your tongue) directly into contact with it.

Your nose is a much more finely discriminating organ. It makes literally millions of fine distinctions, so thoroughly that it's only recently that scientists have been able to mimic it with sensitive machinery, all of it much bigger than your nose. And we still don't completely understand how your nose does it.

When you chew, some of these chemicals are vaporized, and they go up the back of your mouth into your nose to the sensors. When your nose is stuffed up, those sensors are covered with mucus, and they can't tell you anything. The question I always had was why we think it's all in the mouth.It sure feels like it is.

The answer, according to some scientists I interviewed, is that it's the same as the reason you don't think that objects you see are in your eyes. Your brain associates what it senses with the object, which is in your mouth, not in your brain or in your nose. During the spring you're going to have a hard time tasting anything except the most basic senses of taste, and you're discovering that that's a lot smaller proportion of food flavor than you expect.

It happens to everybody whose nose gets stuffed up, whether due to allergies or a cold, and you don't have to have nasal polyps or any other problem except a nose full of mucus. So take your zyrtec and wait for the pollen to be washed out of the air..

Now that's a great question for a bio-nerd! Rocky...I'm guessing that my fellow answerers have said the same thing - what we call "taste," while a special sense in its own right, is heavily asociated with the sense of smell. Although our olfactory sense is less keen that most mammals, we still have over 1,000 genes for "smell" that express only in the nose.In order to "smell" anything it must first enter the nasal cavity as gaseous, volitile particales before disolving in the mucus covering the olfactory epithelium, where the receptor cells are in the roof of the nasal cavity.

If there's too much mucus, or "snot," or it's too thick the ordor particales can't reach the receptors and the taste sensation is dulled. Is that any help?.

1 rocky...I'll assume you've read the serious answers. Just a reminder, though..don't blow your nose at the dinner table. EWWW!

Rocky...I'll assume you've read the serious answers. Just a reminder, though..don't blow your nose at the dinner table. EWWW!

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