My mother has lost taste in the mouth. She is 75. My father died last June. She is longing to have food but is not able to taste much. She is a diabetic on tablets and not insulin. Sugar levels are not in the manageable range since she has to eat sweetish things sometimes to get taste.
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With age such prob may come ask her to keep tongue as clean as possible uncontrolled diabetease adds to the prob she may use tongue cleaner.
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