If you have been vaping for a while then you are bound to have had this annoying condition called ‘Vapers Tongue’ although you might not have known. Vapers tongue is the term to describe a loss of flavour sensation that happens after you have vaped e juice for a while. Generally vapers blame their e liquid complaining that it’s lost its flavour. It was good at first then nothing! Nada! Just a bland taste of nothing.In your disgust you might even decide never to buy that flavour again, or even worse, avoid the whole e juice brand forever.
How You Taste The Vape Juice
To understand vapers tongue it’s important to know how you taste. The average person has anywhere between 2000 to 8000 taste buds. Depending on the amount of taste buds you have denotes the type of e juice flavours you prefer. For example if you are someone with the higher end of taste buds then you might like e liquid flavours that other vapers with less taste buds can’t discern the flavour from and just get a bland taste. Someone with lesser taste buds may prefer the stronger Menthol based flavours because of their potency.
Vapers Tongue Explained
Essentially someone suffering with vapers tongue becomes numb to the flavours in their ejuice when they vape, like a kind of flavour fatigue. Usually this will happen after you have been vaping a single e juice flavour for a while although other reasons which we will look at below can also cause vapers tongue symptoms. When you suddenly can’t taste your favourite e liquid anymore no matter how hard you puff on that vape and you start to feel bereft that you might lose that special flavoured juice from your liquid favourites – don’t worry.This annoying trait of vaping is easily rectified and is not permanent or serious.
Reason For Vapers Tongue
Below are 7 of the most common causes for losing flavour taste sensation when vaping.
- Long term vaping the same flavour
- Dirty tank, coils and mouthpiece
- Recently stopped smoking cigarettes
- Taste bud loss
- Cold, flu or other illness
- Stress
- Dehydration
All the above can be reasons why you cannot taste your e juice flavour any more. Vapers tongue is usually associated with No1, (long term single favour use), and is easily solved by switching to another flavour for a day or two. After you have been vaping another flavour for a short while you will find that when you go back to your old flavour the taste is back. Taste bud fatigue only requires a short break to renew itself.
Checking and cleaning your tank, coil and mouthpiece is a good idea to do every other day to maintain hygienic vaping conditions anyway but a buildup of gunk on the mouthpiece or a dirty coil can seriously affect the flavour performance.Obviously cold’s, stress and dehydration will affect your sense of taste right across the boar, not just with e juice. Unfortunately you can’t do anything about a cold apart from wait till it passes. Stress and dehydration can be solved through relaxation and drinking water.
Vapers Tongue Conclusion
So if you are about to throw away your supply of e liquid cause you can’t taste it anymore – hold on! Don’t waste your money, simply try to ascertain from the above list of causes which one you are suffering with and then take appropriate action. If it’s based from overuse of a single e liquid flavour then just buy another 10ml flavour and vape that for a while and you will find that when you come back to your favourite juice the flavour will be back in full strength.
