In the episode where Frank can't taste due to the pills he's taking, Ray and Robert give in something to eat with jalapenos and all sorts of hot things and he has no reaction... Even if his sense of taste was gone, shouldn't he still have been able to detect the burning sensation of the hot pepper?
shareI guess it depends. My mother in law lost her taste during chemo. But one day we brought lunch to a family gathering and hot wings were among the food we brought. She said she could taste them a little bit and ate more than she had eaten in awhile. Thankfully her taste has returned now that chemo is over and she's cancer free.
shareThat s good she is cancer free, but yeah I've heard of ppl having no taste but they could still detect like if something sour was in their mouth or something hot.
shareWell sour is a taste. Just like sweet. So if someone can not taste, then they won't taste flavors period.
Now with the tongue, it's possibly the loss of taste is just the surface. it may effect the feeling and sensory ability in the tongue all together. So even something hot won't be felt.
Like someone who is paralyzed, depending on how severe the paralysis is, then they won't feel anything period. But some can still feel in some instances. So Frank's tongue hasn't be paralyzed, obviously. But the pills probably were effecting the nerves, and sensory ability in the area.
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According to the person I heard, he said if he put a sour pickle in his mouth, he could tell there was SOMETHING sour, but he didn't know whether it was a pickle, or a lemon, or WHAT, but the "puckering" sensation would still be there.
This is why I was thinking that if someone with no taste drunk hot sauce, maybe they couldn't TASTE it, but I'd think the burning sensation would still send them to gulp water.
Maybe it was their sense of smell kicking in?
shareVery happy to hear your mother is now cancer free!
sharethe only time I can't taste anything is when I can't smell anything either.. so it's hard for me to picture my taste buds malfunctioning with my sense of smell intact.
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Apparantly they are not connected b/c the guy I heard said he COULD smell, but not taste, BUT could sense whatever was in his mouth, like if it was sour, he would still feel the puckering sensation, if it was hot ~with pepper~ he'd still feel the burning sensation, etc...
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I guess but if he can't taste then how would he know it would be Hot Pepper?
shareI'm not that familiar with hypogeusia, but I do think it would be unlikely someone's sense of spiciness would be diminished along with taste. The two are generally governed by two different cranial nerves: olfactory for taste (and the glossopharyngeal--did I even spell that right--nerve to a degree) and trigeminal nerve for spiciness.
Maybe Frank's sexy pills affected different cranial nerves! Youch.
Yeah that's what I'm thinking! Like if you hold your nose, it will impede your tatse BUT you'd still be able to feel it if a habanero was in your mouth. lol
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