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How should removing tonsils mess up your taste buds?
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Taste buds: Any type of infection, surgery disease ...In the throat that can result in swelling can cause temporary loss of taste. Swelling can put prssure on the nerves that go to the taste buds making them unable to perform and affecting the way things taste, or maybe even no taste at all. In most instances the effects on the the taste buds after taking care of the initial problem, is temporary.
Answered 6/4/2013
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