'Like sewage and rotting flesh': Covid's lasting impact on taste and smell

[Swede]

Four months after getting sick with Covid, Anne-Héloise Dautel couldn’t eat anything at all. “I just wanted to vomit, I was gagging at everything around me,” she said. “I couldn’t even stand my own smell. I was showering five times a day.” Coffee, toothpaste, shampoo and roast meat were the worst. By the time she went to hospital, she weighed just 46kg.

Severe weight loss and kidney failure are some of the impacts of smell and taste distortions which leave people unable to eat or drink things they loved, like coffee or bacon, because they smell like rotting flesh or sewage.

The loss of taste or smell was identified as a Covid symptom very early in the pandemic, and there is growing evidence that a substantial number of people go on to develop long-term distortions to their senses.



https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/30/like-sewage-and-rotting-flesh-covids-lasting-impact-on-taste-and-smell

[Tickle]

1. I have a friend

who lost her sense of smell from Covid. She accidentally hit the switch on her gas stove. Fortunately for her a friend happened to stop by and was overwhelmed with the gas fumes . What could have happened is scary 😟 and what do you do going forward?

[Blue Owl]

2. One can only hope

The Slobfather experienced these symptoms during his bout with Covid...

[MissMillie]

3. too many dismiss COVID because of its high survivability rate

but the long-term (or even permanent) effects can be more than just a little troublesome.

Imagine the financial struggles some people will face because of permanent heart, lung or kidney damage.