From: Ethyl loflazepate as a treatment for patients with idiopathic and psychogenic taste disorder
• Zinc deficiency: Serum zinc level is less than 70 μg/dl and there are no other obvious causes. | |
• Idiopathic: There are no other obvious causes of taste disorder, excluding psychogenicity. | |
• Oral disease: Those with taste disorders that are closely related to oral diseases, such as candidiasis, xerostomia, glossitis, and tongue coating | |
• Psychogenic:Psychological factors clearly related to the onset and progress of the symptoms. | |
• Systematic disease: Currently, the state of control of systemic disease is poor (liver disorder, renal disorder, diabetes, and gastrointestinal disorder). | |
• Drug induced: Described in the information regarding side effects, and has a clear causal relationship. | |
• Post common cold: Awareness of taste disorders following a common cold. | |
• Olfactory disorders: Simultaneous taste and olfactory disorder; taste is normal and only olfaction disorder is present. | |
• Iatrogenic:Those that developed after middle ear surgery or laryngeal microsurgery and palatine tonsil surgery. |