I'm A Food Writer And I Lost My Sense Of Taste To COVID-19
3 years, 10 months ago

I'm A Food Writer And I Lost My Sense Of Taste To COVID-19

Huff Post  

Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty It’s not unusual for human beings to forge strong emotional connections to food. And that’s why, after I contracted COVID-19 during the first week of 2021, I felt especially weakened and frightened by the loss of my sense of taste and smell. Even if you intellectually know that a sense of taste is almost completely reliant on a sense of smell, you don’t quite appreciate that fact until you’re forced to go without both. In a December story about COVID-19 smell and taste loss, coronavirus survivor Jane Nilan told HuffPost that during her illness, “I ate a lot of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, that’s for sure.” As a survivor myself, I wholeheartedly agree: Cinnamon Toast Crunch was one of the few foods that I could really bring myself to enjoy without a full sense of taste. Where I am now I first tested positive for COVID-19 about three weeks ago, and I’m delighted to report that about 70% of my sense of taste and smell has been restored.

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Long Covid sense loss ‘can be cured by sniffing an orange’
1 year, 8 months ago

Long Covid sense loss ‘can be cured by sniffing an orange’

The Telegraph  

Smelling a lemon or orange twice a day may help reverse long Covid sense loss, a study has found. The senses return for most patients within a matter of weeks, but for some people who suffered prolonged illness, smell loss was seemingly permanent. A study from scientists at University College London has found for the first time that people with …

Loss of taste after COVID? How eating chillies could help
1 year, 11 months ago

Loss of taste after COVID? How eating chillies could help

Firstpost  

Chilli can help as a flavour enhancer. According to Danish experts, eating foods like chilli might be useful to provide sensory stimulation to diners when their sense of smell isn’t quite up to scratch The news of a hot chilli sauce shortages earlier this year — due to high temperatures and drought in agricultural regions — prompted warnings to stock …

Long Covid: What science has learned about the loss of smell and taste
2 years, 2 months ago

Long Covid: What science has learned about the loss of smell and taste

CNN  

CNN — Imagine waking up one morning after recovering from Covid-19 to find that your coffee smells like unwashed socks, your eggs reek of feces and your orange juice tastes metallic. Smell or olfactory training encourages people to sniff essential oils twice a day, said rhinologist Dr. Zara Patel, a professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Stanford University …

I recovered from COVID but my nose didn’t. Here’s how I cope
2 years, 2 months ago

I recovered from COVID but my nose didn’t. Here’s how I cope

LA Times  

Two and a half years ago, my nose stopped working. That’s when I realized how often smell comes up in daily conversation: “That Uber smelled weird,” or “that woman was wearing way too much perfume,” or “someone’s definitely smoking weed nearby.” I have anosmia, a symptom of long COVID. Sometimes when walking into a restaurant or store for the first …

Covid nearly did me in. Then it opened up new realms of pleasure on my taste buds
2 years, 5 months ago

Covid nearly did me in. Then it opened up new realms of pleasure on my taste buds

The Independent  

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Why your returning sense of smell after COVID may feel strange
2 years, 6 months ago

Why your returning sense of smell after COVID may feel strange

Al Jazeera  

A look at why some people report pleasant smells as rancid and how mint and garlic could help retrain noses. Initially, when the olfactory symptoms of COVID-19 became apparent, scientists thought it may be the virus itself infecting the olfactory sensory neurons which could, in turn, infect the parts of the brain responsible for smell. Common things that elicit pleasant …

Parosmia: The Long COVID Condition That Makes Everything Taste Or Smell Rotten
3 years ago

Parosmia: The Long COVID Condition That Makes Everything Taste Or Smell Rotten

Huff Post  

martin-dm via Getty Images Experts are working to learn more about long COVID and parosmia, a condition that distorts taste and smell. “But I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 15 to 20%.” The parosmia-COVID connection Parosmia occurs when a person’s olfactory nerves are damaged, ultimately changing how smells reach the brain. “It’s consistent with what we know about evolutionary mechanisms.” …

Covid survivors may take a year to get back taste, smell: Study
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid survivors may take a year to get back taste, smell: Study

India TV News  

Have you lost your sense of taste and smell after suffering from Covid-19 infection? The loss of smell can severely impact a person's quality of life, making it extremely difficult to taste foods, detect airborne hazards in the environment and carry out other functions dependent on the senses. Researchers from the University Hospitals of Strasbourg in France followed 97 Covid-19 …

Covid survivors say they experience 'bizarre' tastes and smells months after clearing the infection
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid survivors say they experience 'bizarre' tastes and smells months after clearing the infection

Daily Mail  

After recovering from COVID-19, several survivors say they are experiencing say they either can't smell or are experienced distorted and misplaced odors and tastes. Marcel Kuttab, one patient interviewed by the New York Times, described bizarre smell experiences after she recovered from COVID COVID can cause problems for the olfactory epithelium - a group of nerves that detect scents and …

Coronavirus Oral Symptoms: Not Just Loss of Taste, These Signs Are Also Crucial
3 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus Oral Symptoms: Not Just Loss of Taste, These Signs Are Also Crucial

News 18  

Symptoms of coronavirus play a very important role in the early detection of the virus in your body. According to the latest report of the National Institute of Health, published in the scientific journal, Nature Medicine, nearly half of coronavirus patients suffer oral symptoms during the infection. Dry mouth: Dry mouth is very common in most viral infections and recent …

How loss of smell due to covid-19 affects wine tasting
3 years, 9 months ago

How loss of smell due to covid-19 affects wine tasting

Live Mint  

No-one likes to lose their sense of smell or taste -- a common symptom of Covid-19 -- but for the sommeliers and other wine professionals of France, it is particularly traumatic. "It's very hard to admit that we've lost these senses," said Sophie Pallas, director of the Union of French Oenologues. "When the fever fell and my appetite returned, I …

Loss of smell or anosmia: This Covid-19 symptom drives survivors to get creative in the kitchen
3 years, 11 months ago

Loss of smell or anosmia: This Covid-19 symptom drives survivors to get creative in the kitchen

CNN  

CNN — Emergency physician Dr. Alex Yeats had just whipped up what seemed like an appetizing dinner option when his wife let him know she wasn’t having anything to do with it. Anosmia — a condition known as “smell blindness,” or loss of smell — is a common symptom of Covid-19, and can severely impact people’s ability to taste, since …

Long COVID-19 symptoms: Some survivors are haunted by loss of smell and taste
3 years, 11 months ago

Long COVID-19 symptoms: Some survivors are haunted by loss of smell and taste

Firstpost  

Until March, when everything started tasting like cardboard, Katherine Hansen had such a keen sense of smell that she could recreate almost any restaurant dish at home without the recipe, just by recalling the scents and flavours. “Smell is not something we pay a lot of attention to until it’s gone,” said Pamela Dalton, who studies smell’s link to cognition …

COVID-19 Smell And Taste Loss: How Long It Lasts, And How To Deal With It
4 years ago

COVID-19 Smell And Taste Loss: How Long It Lasts, And How To Deal With It

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING For millions of COVID-19 survivors, the struggle back to health often is slow and painful. Most will recover within two to three weeks, but many thousands are still working towards recovery many months later.” - Chrissi Kelly, founder of nonprofit patient advocacy group AbScent “When this damage occurs as part of COVID, it tends to be a …

How Loss of Smell, Taste Could be a Blessing in Disguise for Many Covid-19 Patients
4 years, 1 month ago

How Loss of Smell, Taste Could be a Blessing in Disguise for Many Covid-19 Patients

News 18  

Amid the growing Covid-19 scare is light at the end of the tunnel. If you experience true loss of smell and taste along with gastric trouble as Covid-19 symptoms begin to appear, have heart as this generally means a good prognosis and no severe respiratory attack that normally sets in in the second week of the 14-day virus cycle. Observed …

Covid Positive Man Munches on Raw Onion, Garlic to Show Loss of Taste, Video Goes Viral on TikTok
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid Positive Man Munches on Raw Onion, Garlic to Show Loss of Taste, Video Goes Viral on TikTok

News 18  

The coronavirus has affected millions around the world and is known to cause temporary, and in some cases permanent, loss of taste and smell. In an attempt to demonstrate how badly this virus can damage the ability to taste the food, a person ate raw onions, baby foods, sardines and drank lemon juice. While eating these foods which have a …

The chef who can’t smell or taste
4 years, 2 months ago

The chef who can’t smell or taste

CNN  

CNN — How would things taste if you lost your sense of smell? “I also like Scandinavian cuisine where they use a lot of onions, fennel, mustard, beets and horseradish.” Living with anosmia Joke Boon's satay burger Courtesy Saskia Lelieveld Outside the kitchen, anosmia can be an equally distressing condition, affecting sufferers’ self-confidence. Suddenly, the world as you know it …

How Does One Differentiate Between Symptoms of Common Cold and Coronavirus? Here are Some Hints
4 years, 4 months ago

How Does One Differentiate Between Symptoms of Common Cold and Coronavirus? Here are Some Hints

News 18  

Although COVID-19 patients may lose their sense of smell, they can breathe freely, do not tend to have a runny or blocked nose, and cannot detect bitter or sweet tastes, a study published on Wednesday has found. The researchers hope that their work could help develop smell and taste tests for fast COVID-19 screening - in primary care and emergency …

Does Covid-19 Directly Cause Loss of Taste? Study Says Otherwise
4 years, 4 months ago

Does Covid-19 Directly Cause Loss of Taste? Study Says Otherwise

News 18  

COVID-19 does not directly damage taste bud cells, according to a study that found that taste loss is likely caused indirectly by events induced during inflammation due to the disease. Liu and her colleagues wanted to find out whether ACE2 was expressed specifically in taste bud cells, as well as when this receptor first emerges on oral tissue cells during …

Covid-19 does not directly cause loss of taste: Study
4 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 does not directly cause loss of taste: Study

Live Mint  

Washington: COVID-19 does not directly damage taste bud cells, according to a study which found that taste loss is likely caused indirectly by events induced during inflammation due to the disease. The study also indicates that taste bud cells are not vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection, because most of them do not express ACE2, a gateway that the virus uses to …

Diarrhoea may be a sign of COVID-19
4 years, 5 months ago

Diarrhoea may be a sign of COVID-19

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The combination of diarrhoea, headache and abdominal pain is being noted along with respiratory distress in 19.8 per cent of Covid-19 cases, according to an analysis of patients. Experts state that due to self-medication, use of alternative medicines and inability to understand the symptoms, people are coming to hospitals with a combination of abdominal and respiratory infections. But it …

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