Generally okayGeneral guidanceSymptom guidance

Metallic taste and strong smell sensitivity

Taste and smell changes can accompany early pregnancy and nausea, but persistent mouth symptoms may also come from dental, reflux, medicine or infection causes.

Direct guidance

What to know or do

Use foods and temperatures you tolerate, keep up oral care and ask for review if the change prevents eating or drinking, comes with mouth lesions or follows a new medicine.

What changes the answer

  • When it began, whether it is worsening, and how it affects eating, sleep or activity
  • Severity, pattern, one-sided symptoms and accompanying bleeding, fever or fluid loss
  • Pregnancy week, baby movement and relevant conditions or medicines

General guidance

When to get individual help

This is a general pregnancy baseline, not personal clearance. Change course and ask for advice if symptoms, complications or an individual care plan make the situation different.