How to Get Rid of Vape Tongue and Restore Your Sense Of Taste
How to Get Rid of Vape Tongue and Restore Your Sense Of Taste
Vape tongue, or more popularly vaper’s fatigue, is the commonly noted phenomenon when vapers lose their ability to taste their e-liquids for a certain period. Understandably frustrating, especially if you’re craving that vibrant taste of your favorite e-juice. Fortunately, vape tongue is almost always self-limiting, and there are a number of steps you can take to bring those flavors back. Here are some effective tips that will be helpful in restoring your sense of taste and making your vaping experience enjoyable again.
Hydrate
Vape tongue is usually caused by dehydration. Vaping contains high levels of Propylene Glycol, which is notorious for drying out your mouth and throat; it affects your taste buds and the smell. Drinking plenty of water throughout the day moistens your mouth, and that is what keeps your taste buds in action. It should be a habit to have a bottle of water with you at all times you vape, as being hydrated will not only improve your sense of taste but also your general health.
Change Your E-Liquid Flavor
Vape tongue mainly occurs when your taste buds get used to one flavor if you are using the same vape continuously. If you have been using the same e-liquid for a pretty long period of time, your taste may get desensitized to its flavor profile. Switch over to some different flavor for some time now. Something that is just opposite to the flavor you use. For example, in case you usually vape fruity or sweet flavors, then change to menthol or coffee flavor. That gives your taste buds some rest and the time needed to recover and be prepared for that flavor when you go back to it.
Clean Your Device
Finally, there is flavor quality in a clean vape device. Over time, e-liquids can build up gunk in your coil and tank, leaving a burnt or muted taste. Simply cleaning your tank from time to time, changing your coil, and making sure no residue is available can give a much more vibrant and fresh flavor.
Sometimes it is the device that you use at large that makes this vape tongue worse. Devices of a lower quality, or even older ones, are not able to deliver flavors consistently, and with time, they lead to a blender taste. That little investment in quality makes a lot of difference while vaping. Advanced coil technology and settings for adjustments have been inbuilt into devices like Kraze Vape. These enhance flavor delivery. Some options that have been available on Kraze Vape are different powers to suit your needs and different coils. You will get a chance to have different heat and vapor productions that can work with several types of flavors of e-liquid so that your taste bud will not be fatigued and you can enjoy flavorful vaping.
Take a Break from Vaping
Taking a break from vaping would do good to take some period of time because your taste buds reset. It makes a huge difference even if it were 24 to 48 hours. Allow this period to give the taste receptors enough time to recover from their overexposure. However, a complete break is not an ideal way for most people, whereas only reducing the frequency of the vaping sessions would help in saving one from vape tongue.
Oral Hygiene
Good oral hygiene is pretty important in increasing your sense of taste. Floss at least a couple of times a day: brush your teeth, and you might want to try using a tongue scraper. By cleaning your tongue, you get rid of the buildup of bacteria and all residue that dulls your taste buds. Using mouthwash will freshen your palate, although this will be a lot better if you should avoid heavily flavored or minty mouthwashes prior to vaping because this may alter your perception of taste.
Smell the Coffee Grounds
Coffee grounds serve for “resetting” your olfactory senses. Professional testers of perfumes use coffee beans in between tests for purifying their smell. Vapers can achieve a similar result with the smelling of fresh coffee grounds that helps to clear residual flavors and makes the taste buds again quite ready to taste the e-liquid. Keep a small container of coffee grounds next to you and give them a sniff between vape sessions, in order to refresh your senses.
Try a Higher PG E-Liquid
If you’re vaping a high VG eliquid, try switching to an e liquid with more PG. Being the better flavor carrier, compared to VG you may find a higher PG ratio brings increased flavor intensity that in turn makes vape tongue less likely. Caution should be taken with this option, though, in that PG can inflame the throat of users if sensitive to it.
Eat Palate-Cleansing Foods
Some foods cleanse the palate and rejuvenate taste buds, while others include lemon, ginger, and mint, even pickles. These types of foods have strong, independent flavors that serve to reset your taste buds and refuel them in order to be able to pick up delicate e-liquid flavors again. Have a few cleansing foods or drinks in between vape sessions to enhance your flavor perception.
Conclusion
It is quite common to go through vape tongue for most vapers, but it does not have to be permanent. Keeping your hydra with a change of flavors, oral hygiene, and giving your taste buds some rest will surely get you back to business with your sense of taste and allow you to again fully enjoy your favorite e-liquids. Remember, though-your taste buds recover rather quickly. This would, in turn, mean that with a couple of these tips in practice, the flavor will be back in those vape sessions in no time. Happy vaping!
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