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Normal or acute inflammation is a good process. This is a normal reaction of our body and the biological response to harmful stimuli. This inflammation is necessary to remove the harmful stimuli and begin the healing process.Without inflammation the body does not heal on its own. Acute inflammation increases blood flow to important areas, plasma and white blood cells to heal injured tissue. Acute inflammation is accompanied these signs, pain, heat, redness, swelling, and sometimes loss of function. Prolonged or chronic inflammation is when an injury or infection persists for a longer period of time.

Taste is detected by minute, barrel-shaped taste buds - about 9,000 of them - located on the upper surface of the tongue. There also a few taste buds in the throat and on the soft palate at the back of the mouth. The tip of each taste bud carries a group of 15 to 20 taste receptors-cells linked to nerve fibers that carry taste impulses to the brain.