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Salty taste

Hello, salty taste in my mouth,salty eyes started 3 weeks ago, on and off weakness / tiredness, my old scabbies re emerged and swollen lymph node on my right jaw just yesterday and feeling like fever wants to come out for the past 3 weeks and slightly difficulty breathing for the past 3 weeks, total cholesterol is 263,ldl is high (171),ALT (SGPT) 46,thanks
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Is your mouth dry? When I had some disorder in my fluid and electrolyte regulation (sometimes have), I felt salty taste in my mouth and lips. I even could not eat salty foods. My plasma sodium is often high due to dehydration.

Sometimes tonsilloliths or something else are discharged from my tonsils or other tissues in the pharynx. Then I can feel a salty taste. I have chronic tonsillitis and sinusitis. I have often left-side pain in my jaw-ear-temple area and a swollen lymph node. Ear specialists do not find any infection  in the ear. I am of the opinion that there must be an infection somewhere.

In last spring when I had a four month period of intermittent pain in my ear region I had temperature increase at night.

A possible infection should be searched for you.
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Hi, with your history of loss of weight, fever, swollen lymph glands and tiredness, you have to have yourself evaluated. It could sometimes be due to chronic infections like tuberculosis. It can cause an evening rise of temperature and increased sweating. This also causes a loss of appetite; as such this is accompanied by weight loss. So, record your temperatures, on a two hourly basis to detect an evening rise of temperature. Please check with your doctor to rule out this condition. Regards.
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And lost 9 lbs for the past 3 weeks
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