Brief Answer:
Gastric discomfort most likely cause

Detailed Answer:
Thank you for asking!
Your history of stomach ulcers and recent stomach pains look more likely the cause of this salty taste in your mouth. This is very common presentation of epigastric discomfort secondary to ulcers and regurgitations. It needs diet and lifestyle modifications like eating healthy non spicy non chilly foods, avoiding hot and carbonated beverages and alcohol, keeping time frame of 3 hours between meals and lying down, preferring small meals over heavy ones, avoiding sweets like chocolate etc and tomatoes products , keeping the head of the bed 8 inches minimum above the body , avoiding NSAIDs or any pain killers to maximum extent, Using some proton pump inhibitors like omeprazole etc, seeking a gastroenterologist for further management,
Now discussing the major likely cause , here are some other issue need to be addressed too to sort out this taste dysfunctions prophylactically.
-Address any nasal pathology causing decreased olfaction and thus affecting flavor perception.

-Treat mucosal disorders (eg, infections, inflammations). Treat oral candidiasis and other local factors, and replete any vitamin deficiency that may cause glossitis.

-Aid in eliminating local irritants (eg, mouthwashes, ill-fitting dentures) will resolve this salty taste too.

-In mucositis or dry mouth as a result of radiation therapy, artificial saliva or salivary stimulants and local anti-inflammatory medications may improve some taste dysfunction.

-Correcting endocrine disorders if any with the appropriate hormone replacement may improve the taste disorder.

-Consider eliminating a medication suspected of causing dysgeusia/ bad taste unless the medication is crucial in treating another medical problem and cannot be substituted.


-Some gustatory deficits are untreatable (eg, some cases of nerve or CNS damage, end-stage diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis). This does not apply to your case but wanted you to keep updated about all the possible cause of such taste troubles.

Advise patients that chewing food well increases the release of the tastant and increases saliva production to further distribute the chemicals. Switching foods during the meal decreases the phenomenon of adaptation and can improve detection of the tastes.

Finally, for those who are anosmic/ cant smell any thing or hyposmic/ decrease smell sensation (including many elderly people), simulated odors are available to use while cooking to augment the sensation of flavor. A drawback of these simulated odors is that, to normosmic people, the smell is quite pungent. Thus, these odors cannot be used in mixed groups of anosmic and normosmic individuals.

I hope it helps. Seek a gastroenterologist and let them sort it out for you. Meanwhile take good care of yourself and do as directed to stay out of trouble. Use prophylactic H pylori regimen for gastritis and hope for the best. Also don't forget to close the discussion please.
Regards
S Khan

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Brief Answer:
Visit can be but care can't be

Detailed Answer:
Thank you for asking!
it can be but it should not be. Immediate visit to a doctor is not necessary. Precautions will make things sort out and doing as i directed will patch things up. if the problem persisted then seeking a doctor will be a good option.
I hope that clears things up. Close the discussion please.
Regards
S Khan

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