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Distorted, bizarre food smells haunt COVID survivors
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Covid Survivors Smell Foods Differently
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COVID SYMPTOM: Things might smell uncharacteristically unpleasant. Photo: Getty Images
Last week I talked about recent research that red wine and cheese might be protective against age-related cognitive problems.
Unfortunately, for some people who have had Covid associated loss or distortion of taste and smell in the past year, these may not seem at all appetising.
As everyone undoubtedly is aware, loss of sense of taste and smell is one of the characteristic symptoms of Covid-19.
Post-infection about 50 per cent recover taste and smell within two to three weeks.
Another 40 per cent will recover it by eight weeks.
By the end of six months only two per cent will still have the problem.
My 33-year-old son has suffered migraines since he was nine. Attacks usually last three to four hours and symptoms include vomiting with extreme headache and light sensitivity, followed by about 20 hours of sleep.
Over the years we’ve seen GPs and he’s been advised to take paracetamol, which he can’t even keep down. One attack lasted 48 hours, so we called an ambulance.
They tried to convince us it was food poisoning. Is there a specialist we could see? I’d be willing to pay.
The mother of a 33-year-old man has written to Dr Ellie to seek help over his migraines which have blighted his life for more than 20 years (picture posed by model)
I’m stalked by a smell. It’s lurking in my kitchen, in my bathroom, on my breath. It settles on the surface of my coffee and, sometimes, my skin. I can smell it in my perfume and all the food I eat. Most days I think it’s onion, but it’s also close to garlic, or gas, or garlic cooked on gas. It is not, curiously, a scent I had smelled before October, and yet it’s there all the time, right under my nose. I caught Covid that month, and the smell has plagued me since. Around 65 per cent of people who test positive for coronavirus lose their sense of taste and smell; roughly 8 per cent say these symptoms persist at least five weeks after infection. This means more than 300,000 people in the UK alone have suffered, or are still suffering, from “long haul” Covid smell disorders.
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