How to get rid of vape “tongue”: everything you need to know

In the world of vaping, there is a phenomenon that every e-cigarette user experiences. This condition is known as vape tongue. Once it occurs, you won’t be able to enjoy your vape as fast as you used to. But what do you do once this happens? Is it possible to fix it? We will answer these questions and more in today’s blog.

Table of Contents:

1. What does Vaper’s Tongue mean?
2. How Vaper’s Tongue Works
3. Why does Vaper’s Tongue occur?
4. How to Fix vape Tongue?
5. Conclusion

What is vape “tongue”?

Tongue numbness is when your tongue can no longer taste the flavor of the vape. There are many reasons for this, but fortunately, tongue numbness is temporary and can be fixed quickly.

It’s been said that vape users have tongues that are like plating, which is probably the most accurate description of what prevents you from tasting vapes. It’s also important to know that while you may not be able to taste the flavor, you can still puff out a wisp of smoke and inhale the same amount of smoking tar.

How the tongue works

Before we can explain why the vape tongue appears, we first need to know how the taste buds work. Your tongue has thousands of flavor buds (from 2,000 to nearly 10,000 ) that regenerate every two weeks. (Jacewicz, 2017 2000), and more importantly, it requires saliva to test for odors. Without saliva, the taste buds may go numb and not work properly. Over-absorption of vapes can dry out the mouth, thus creating an environment that is not suitable for taste buds to work properly.

We also use our noses to test flavors; in fact, the combination of tongue and nose (or flavor and scent) allows us to test flavors. If you inhale a certain flavor in a vape for too long, the vape’s aroma may affect your nose so that it can no longer distinguish between flavors.

Why does the smoker’s tongue appear?

There are many reasons why vape users’ tongues turn black. The most common reason, which we’ve already discussed, is that it takes too long to inhale the same flavor of vape. This can dry out the mouth, which we know affects the ability of the taste buds to detect the flavor. We also know that sniffing a vape once can get our nose used to the odor until we can’t distinguish it. Other reasons include.

• Numbing of taste buds
• Dehydration
• Sickness or nasal congestion

Numbness of taste buds

Another reason for vape tongue numbness is that you have recently eaten foods that may numb your taste buds. For example, extremely spicy foods and sour foods can numb your tongue. Medications, ethanol, and your recent cessation of smoking can also cause taste buds to go numb. However, according to NPR, taste bud numbness is only temporary, as they heal in about two weeks. (Jacewicz, 2017).

Dehydration

Dehydration is generally the culprit for dryness in the tongue of vape users; this is because, as we said before, the tongue needs saliva to stimulate the taste buds and work properly. If your body isn’t adequately hydrated, you’ll have a hard time producing saliva (or producing saliva). Which can lead to a dry mouth.

Sickness or nasal congestion

If your nose doesn’t work and you have a hard time smelling, then, as we’ve learned before on this blog, this can affect your taste buds and give you a vape tongue. Because your nose is used to examine the minute details of flavor, you may be able to sense a little bit of flavor, but you won’t be able to comprehend all of the intricacies and nuances of the flavor.

How to Fix Vaping Tongue

There are many ways to deal with the vape tongue problem. Here are the ways to fix the problem. You can drink more water, change your flavor, use a stronger-tasting vape oil, inhale fresh coffee beans, absorb lemon, use a tongue scraper, or wait until the tongue problem goes away.

Drink more water

Generally, vape tongue occurs because you are dehydrated or have been smoking vapes for too long, causing your mouth to dry out. By drinking water, you can activate your taste buds, clean them, and hydrate them; thus, you can kill two birds with one stone.

Changing the flavor of vapes

If you still have a hard time tasting vape oil, maybe it’s time to change your flavor. Changing the flavor will give your nose a fresh aroma and will allow your taste buds to try something new. After switching vapes for a few weeks, when you use your original vape liquid again, it should taste just as good as it did the first time.

Use a stronger flavored e-liquid

Another way you can also try to deal with tongue problems for vape users is to use stronger flavors like menthol or menthol. Because of their concentration, the taste buds can kick in and be more sensitive to other flavors you may be inhaling.

Absorbing Fresh Coffee Beans

One trick you can use is that wine sommeliers and perfumers swear by absorbing fresh coffee beans. While I can’t. 100% sure how it works, but when you inhale fresh coffee, your nose and taste buds will revive and discover new flavors again.

Inhale the lemon

Another trick to reset your taste buds is to absorb lemons. By absorbing the lemon, your lemon, tongue, and mouth are stimulated to produce more saliva, making your taste buds work properly.

Using a tongue scraper, you can revitalize your taste buds and clean them. In case you don’t have a tongue scraper, you can always clean your tongue with a toothbrush to restore the flavor.

Wait for it to go away

Finally, you can wait until the smoker’s tongue disappears, which will take no less than two weeks while your taste buds experience regeneration.

Conclusion

If you are a vaper user, you will eventually experience e-cigarette tongue problems, but now that you have read our blog, you will know what to do when this happens. Remember that the main cause of vape tongue is dehydration, so water and time are generally the best ways to beat the e-cigarette tongue.