DYSGEUSIA RELATED TO ZINC DEFICIENCY IN A CASE OF DIABETES MELLITUS

Dysgeusia is a rare phenomenon that my be idiopathic or my be caused by several factors such as zinc deficiency, tonsillectomy, diabetes mellitus and head trauma. A rare form of dysgeusia in a diabetes mellitus patient in which all food tasted sweet was desrcibed in this case report. No other neunlogical signs were observed in patient. However, taste disturbance of the patient was altered following tonsillectomy that was performed for chronic tonsillitis. The case was taken advantage of the zinc therapy due to zinc deficiency of the patient. In this case report management strategies and causative factors of dysgesia was discussed.