Salty Taste in Mouth – Symptoms

• Salt may be accompanied by mouth metallic soap or bitter taste and can be extremely unpleasant.
• Salty flavor more pronounced in the back of the mouth and throat can speak post nasal drip, GERD, respiratory infection, throat cancer.
• Salty taste on the tip of the tongue and lips can speak on behalf of gingivitis or tooth problems.
• Limited to or more pronounced on one side salty taste may be due to a disorder of the parotid gland, the problem of the teeth, ear infection, paralysis, Bell trigeminal neuralgia, herpes zoster (rash on the same side).