Did covid disrupt your taste and smell??

Parosmia – causing food to taste like trash.  Many of us have continued to suffer with parasomnia since having covid at some point in the last 2 years.  Many tastes and smells have returned but some are still lingering.
 
The most common foods that have changed with post covid parosmia are:

• Onions
• Garlic
• Eggs
• Fried foods
• Meat
• Coffee

 
Your smell can also be affected.  You may be experiencing a distorted smell with the following:

• Cleaning chemicals
• Flowers
• Perfume
• Toothpaste

 
What causes parosmia?  It’s basically when the nerve fibres in the nasal cavity that carry signals to the olfactory nerve are damaged.   Our sense of taste is linked to our sense of smell; therefore taste is also affected.  Parosmia was quite rare before covid so we did not talk much about it before.
 
So what can you do to live with or improve your parosmia?

• Eat foods at room temperature
• Avoid fried foods and meat
• Reduce the number of foods that taste bad right now
• Smell training (using specific scents to retrigger the nerves to the olfactory nerve – scents like: lemon, eucalyptus, cloves, rose, essential oils work well for this.  Sniff the oil for 20 seconds, either from the bottle or pour a few drops in a jar and inhale from there) I would go on from there to smelling anything that would be fresh or zesty or fragrant – start smelling lemons, limes, oranges, flowers, kitchen herbs etc.

 
The general consensus is that your brain will eventually correct the problem, but it can take a long time, so in the meantime try some of these suggestions to speed up that process.
 
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