[Drug-induced taste disorders]

Taste disorders may have diverse uncomfortable consequences such as reduced quality of life, weight loss and possibly professional disability. The sense of taste depends on many factors. Thus various conditions may cause taste disorders, drugs being one of them. The list of drugs being able to cause taste disorders as adverse drug reaction is long and there are many such cases reported to the Swiss Drug Monitoring Center (SANZ). The possibility of an unwanted side effect should be taken into account if a patient complains about taste disorders, such as reduced or changed sense of taste.