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When i cough it tastes of iron sometimes what isit?
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Iron taste in cough: Likely you are tasting iron. When you cough a lot you irritate the tissue and get a bit of bleeding, Blood and myoglobin in muscles contains iron, it is the component of hemoglobin in our red blood cells that attaches to oxygen so you are tasting iron. That is why for many people when anemic they take iron supplements.
Answered 10/24/2017
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