Mum who had Covid-19 says food still smells rotten like mould as she suffers dramatic weight loss
Sarah Govier, 44, caught the virus in May and lost her sense of smell but months after it came back she was struck by a new symptom - a total distortion of her sense of smell and taste.
Sarah s taste and smell have been scrambled by the virus
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More and more reports are surfacing of how COVID-19 patients are suffering with long covid symptoms including loss of smell. Fish and burning toast are among the unbearable odours in place of normal smells. A mother from Kent describes her experience with scientists pinpointing why loss of smell occurs in the first place.
Long Covid sufferers developing symptom where they smell fish and burnt toast constantly
The long-term symptom, known as parosmia, seemed to affect young people and healthcare workers in particular
27 December 2020 • 2:05pm
Long covid sufferers are constantly smelling fish, sulphur and burnt toast according to the doctor who identified the “strange symptom”.
Professor Nirmal Kumar, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon, said the very strange and very unique long-term symptom known as parosmia seemed to affect young people and healthcare workers, in particular.
The surgeon, who is also the president of ENT UK, was among the first medics to identify anosmia, loss of smell, as a coronavirus indicator in March, and urged Public Health England to add it to the symptom list months before it became official guidance.