The old phrase ‘a change is as good as a rest is an adage that rings true for many seasoned vapers. After vaping the same e-juice for months, there’s always the desire to switch your flavors. 

But switching flavors isn’t just something a vaper does out of their discretion. As you shall find, there are risks associated with inhaling the same e-juice flavors for an extended period. 

One such risk is a condition known as a vaper’s tongue. Read on for more insights on what vaper’s tongue is, what causes it, and the four best ways to fix it.

What Is Vaper’s Tongue?

Vaper’s tongue, also known as vaper’s fatigue, refers to a condition where a vaper unexpectedly loses the ability to taste the flavors in their e-juice. Vaper fatigue is one of the most common vaping phenomena and affects nearly all seasoned vapers at some point in their vaping life. 

The condition typically lasts between 1 and 3 days. For some vapers, it could persist for two weeks or even longer.  

Does Vaper’s Tongue Affect Your Overall Sense of Taste?

Before we proceed, it’s important to point out that vaper’s tongue not only affects the ability to relish the individual flavors in your e-juice, dry herbs, or wax concentrates. The condition can also impact your overall senses of taste and smell. 

Generally, excessive vaping leads to tongue fatigue. And tongue fatigue causes dry mouth, which affects the performance of the salivary glands. 

Note that taste receptors can only work when there’s enough saliva in your mouth. Otherwise, you might lose your sense of taste and even smell temporarily. These risks seem to be more common when you continually vape the same flavors. 

However, it’s also worth noting that vaper’s tongue doesn’t affect flavor and vapor production. Neither does it reduce nicotine’s absorption rate. What’s more, you can still enhance the rate of nicotine absorption by investing in Vaporesso xros pod for salt nic or other vape devices by reputable brands. 

What Causes Vaper’s Tongue?

Flavor fatigue is the primary cause of the vaper’s tongue. As we’ve already pointed out, flavor fatigue refers to vaping e-juices containing the same flavors for an extended period. 

But even if you change your e-juice flavors from time to time, you can still experience vaper’s tongue from excessive vaping. Excessive vaping deprives your taste glands of the right amount of saliva they need to function correctly. 

Smoking is another common cause of the vaper’s tongue. This is more common among people who’ve recently quit cigarette smoking. As you may already know, smoking affects virtually all organs of the body, including your gustatory and olfactory organs. 

Last but not least, a vaper’s tongue can result from problems with your vaporizer, such as unsuitable temperature settings.

4 Ways to Fix Vaper’s Tongue

The human body has between 2000 and 8000 taste buds. However, our taste buds can only discern between five major tastes – sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami (savory). 

While your taste buds may be effective in discerning e-juices containing any of these flavors, it can be difficult to distinguish between different variations of the same flavor. That’s where our olfactory organs come in. The sense of smell works alongside the sense of taste in enhancing your ability to discern between near-similar variations of the same flavors. 

Even then, inhaling e-juices formulated with similar flavors may still trigger the vaper’s tongue. Your best solution would be to switch between the five major tastes. 

Drinking adequate amounts of water can also go a long way in correcting the vaper’s tongue. This is especially true for chain vapers. 

Water fixes the problem of dry mouth, which would otherwise affect how you savor the flavors in your e-juice. The rule of thumb is to ensure you meet the recommended daily intake of water, 2.6 liters or roughly 10 cups. 

If you’re struggling to drink plain water, you can consider substituting with flavored drinks like smoothies and fruit juices. You can also consider oral rehydration products, including mouthwash, overnight gel, oral sprays, and certain toothpaste products.

Fixing vaper’s tongue doesn’t mean you should bid adieu to the good, old coffee. But since caffeine is a diuretic, consuming too much of the drink may result in dehydration. 

So, if you vape a lot, you may want to reduce your caffeine intake. The same goes for other diuretic drinks like alcohol. 

Perhaps in the same breath, it’s important to note that experts discourage vaping alcohol. Besides being highly dehydrating, vaping alcohol allows you to consume worryingly high quantities of alcohol, which could lead to alcohol poisoning.

Vaping unflavored e-juices is another effective way of beating a vaper’s tongue. This tip is mostly recommended for vapers who find it difficult to take a break from vaping. 

By inhaling unflavored base e-liquids, your taste buds will have no problem at all discerning any flavors. That’s because most unflavored e-juices are almost tasteless, only containing a slight sweetness. So, your taste buds aren’t actually missing out on any flavors. Another notable benefit of unflavored e-juices is that they tend to be cheaper. 

However, vaping unflavored e-juices should only offer a quick fix to the problem of vaper’s tongue. Once you’re able to detect the flavors in your e-juice, it would be best to return to vaping flavored e-liquids.