Bitterness in the mouth in the morning

Typically, bitterness in the mouth in the morning occurs only sometimes after eating on the eve of a certain food. In this case, it passes quickly, it is only necessary to stop using too sharp, salty, smoked and similar products, that is, to establish the right balanced diet. However, if an unpleasant sensation occurs regularly, it is worth seriously thinking about your health.

What does bitter taste in the mouth mean in the morning?

As a rule, with age, people have various chronic diseases, and with them often begins to disturb the unpleasant feeling of bitterness in the mouth after sleep. The reasons for why in the morning there is a strong bitterness in your mouth, there are several:

• binge eating;
• non-observance of the rules of oral hygiene;
• reception of antibiotics, antiallergic drugs, tablets against the fungus and a number of other medications;
• Diseases of the oral cavity - inflammation of the tissues around the tooth, gum disease, stomatitis, violation of the innervation of the tongue, poor-quality plastic or metal crowns or dentures, the metal of a seal placed shortly before this;
• food poisoning;
• the onset of diabetes;
• jaundice;
• problems with the operation of the gallbladder, in which bile enters the esophagus;
• cholelithiasis ;
• Cholecystitis can cause dryness and bitterness in the mouth in the morning;
• biliary dyskinesia;
• colitis, enteritis, inflammatory processes in the large intestine;
• liver diseases - hepatitis (inflammation of liver tissue), cirrhosis (death of liver cells), steatosis (fatty liver infiltration);
• bile duct disease;
• chronic gastritis;
• duodenal disease - duodenitis;
• intestinal diseases - gastritis, ulcer, pancreatitis;
• inflammation of both types of intestines (thick and thin);
• diseases of the endocrine system - hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism;
• oncology of the digestive tract;
• GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease);
• poisoning with metals - lead, copper, mercury, as well as arsenic, phosphorus;
• presence of parasites - giardiasis, ascariasis, opisthorchiasis ;
• high blood glucose;
• dysgeusia - a perversion of taste sensations, when different tastes are felt as unpleasant (usually bitter);
• smoking;
• depressive state, persistent stress;
• a change in the hormonal background - a deviation from the normal estrogen level;
• pregnancy;
• violations in the work of ENT organs.

Bitterness in the mouth in the morning - treatment

In order to find out what to do, if in the morning after a dream disturbs the feeling of bitterness in your mouth, you must find out the true cause, and for this you can not do without a call to a specialist. But you can do something yourself:

1. In any case, when symptoms of bitterness occur, one must exclude overeating, the use of fatty, sharp, salty foods, sweets, etc.
2. To quickly eliminate the bitter aftertaste, you can chew clove or cinnamon.
3. To increase salivation, in which the oral cavity is cleared of germs and bacteria, it is more often to eat oranges or natural juices containing vitamin C.
4. If the cause is a violation of the gastrointestinal tract, treatment should be directed to recovery functions of the digestive organs.
5. If bitterness occurs in the morning as a result of frequent stress, nervous strain due to the rhythm of life, you can drink a course of antidepressants or just relax, sleep, get a charge of positive emotions.

If it turns out that the cause is in the diseases of the oral cavity, ask for treatment to the dentist. And when along with a bitter taste in the mouth in the morning there is a feeling of heaviness, pain on the right in the hypochondrium, immediately visit the hospital, because this is a sign of serious liver disease.