Home screening of taste and oral trigeminal function: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

gustatory ability is a marker of health not routinely tested in the medical practice. The current study wants to assess whether taste strips can be useful to monitor taste function from home.

Methods

we performed simple sensory tests in lab setting vs. unassisted testing at home, and compared the results with self-reports ability to taste and smell. Using paper strips impregnated with sweet, bitter, salty, or sour tastants, and with two trigeminal stimuli (capsaicin, tannins) in high and low concentrations, we assessed gustatory and trigeminal function in 74 participants (47 women) in the lab, where paper strips were administered by an experimenter, and in 77 participants (59 women) at home, where they self-administered the test.

Results

we found that high (bu

SUBMITTER: Green T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11392964 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature