What is the reason for having a sweet mouth?

Many friends experience a bitter taste in their mouth, but a sweet taste in the mouth is relatively rare. If you feel a sudden sweet taste in your mouth, you should pay attention, because there are many factors that cause a sweet taste in your mouth, such as digestive system dysfunction, diabetes, spleen and stomach qi and yin deficiency, etc. It is recommended to conduct targeted examinations before treatment.

1. Digestive system dysfunction

Dysfunction of the digestive system can cause abnormal secretion of various digestive enzymes, especially an increase in the level of amylase in saliva. The taste buds on the tongue are stimulated, making people feel a sweet taste in their mouths.

2. Diabetes

Due to increased blood sugar, diabetic patients have increased sugar content in their saliva, and they often feel a sweet taste in their mouth.

3. Heat in the spleen and stomach

It is mostly caused by overeating of spicy and pungent foods, which leads to internal heat in the spleen and stomach or exogenous evil heat that accumulates in the spleen and stomach. The disease is often manifested as a sweet mouth and thirst, a preference for drinking water, excessive eating and easy hunger, or sores on the lips and tongue, dry and hard stools, etc.

4. Deficiency of both spleen and stomach qi and yin

This type of sweet taste in the mouth often occurs in the elderly and weak, or people who have been ill for a long time and have damaged their spleen and stomach. Because the spleen and stomach qi and yin are damaged, and internal heat is generated, the spleen fluid is burned, resulting in symptoms such as sweet and dry mouth, not drinking much water, shortness of breath, physical weakness, and loss of appetite.

5. Other situations

Bitter taste in the mouth. If you wake up in the morning and find a bitter taste in your mouth and yellow urine, it may be due to liver heat. You can eat some wormwood stalks or bitter gourd when cooking. If you have a bitter taste in your mouth in the morning accompanied by fullness in the right side of your rib cage, and it is more severe after eating greasy food or having a full meal, you may have cholelithiasis.