![]() Wiggins, MD, “Taste Disorder From Zinc Deficiency After Tonsillectomy,” The Western Journal of Medicine identifying that Zinc deficiency in your body, combined with glossopharyngeal nerve injury, make your taste and smell go wild! Because, in a way, zinc is what helps taste being recognized and transferred to your brain. There are published research papers (very rear, old, and none of our doctors familiar with them), for instance Joseph M. But only say one in a thousand have that awful taste afterwards. Anyway, after I googled it thoroughly, I came to conclusion that because of its location close to tonsils, most of tonsillectomy patients should have their glossopharyngeal nerve affected, which is responsible for taste sensations from the posterior one third of the tongue. ![]() ![]() My doctor also claimed that "son, i've never heard of that, you must be one in a million because I took tonsils out from as much as 100 billion zillion patients so far"?! Thanx a lot, good for you doc, bad for me. And complaining that noone posted anything about being cured eventually, and is it curable at all. Hy guys, I see many of you have been experiencing same awful effects of taste and smell lost/disturbance after tonsillectomy.
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