Hi Carol,
Welcome to the group. :)
As a CFer diagnosed as a baby, I have never experienced the salt water
phenomena you are speaking of.
It's very interesting. So, the doctors have not heard of it? Or have you yet
to ask them? If you were drinking water through your skin it could taste
salty because of the extra salt that may be on your skin (some have this, I
believe some people don't have that much salty sweat though), but in the
mouth I can't imagine a salt water taste.
Do you get a dry mouth? If so, this could skew the taste?
Sorry I'm not much help, but if you find the answer as to why it occurs
please tell me, I'm very interested!!
~ Rach


On 1/27/07, Carol CLIFFORD <cliffshark@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to this group as of today. I was diagnosed with CF after my first
>
> child was born, at the age of 31. I am lucky in the fact that obviously I
> have a very mild case.
>
> I now have 3 children and all in all am pretty healthy, although my
> lifestyle is not very healthy.
>
> I decided I was going to start trying to get healthier in "baby steps". My
>
> first thing was to drink water. I basically live on coffee. Anyway, after
> just a day of drinking water I found that my mouth tasted like I had been
> drinking ocean water. I have had no luck finding out what this could be
> from and have since just started drinking "vitamin water", which got rid
> of
> the salt taste, but I find it makes me kind of thirsty and bloated.
>
> Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
>
> I haven't look in the archives yet, which I probably should have done
> before
> I posted this, but I am going to look now.
>
> Thanks to anyone who can give me some insight on this.
>
> Carol
>
> Life is an adventure, not a charted course...
>
>
>



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