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COVID long-haulers speak out about the strange symptom making everything they eat taste and smell like ‘garbage’ Kaitlin Reilly December 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Around this time four years ago, we started hearing about a "mysterious" new virus called COVID-19. The upper respiratory disease would change life as we knew it, becoming a global pandemic.
Is loss of smell a more common symptom with BA.5 infection? Does BA.5 cause loss of smell and taste? ... sense of smell fell to 44%. During the winter omicron wave, it fell further, to 17% ...
The median delay for COVID-19 is four to five days [17] possibly being infectious on 1–4 of those days. [18] Most symptomatic people experience symptoms within two to seven days after exposure, and almost all will experience at least one symptom within 12 days. [17] [19] Most people recover from the acute phase of the disease.
Some people may experience persistent symptoms or disability after recovery from the infection, known as long COVID, but there is still limited information on the best management and rehabilitation for this condition. [5] Most cases of COVID-19 are mild.
Some people lose the sense of smell and taste after COVID-19, making eating and drinking an unpleasant chore. Try some of these choices to make mealtime more pleasant.
Anosmia, also known as smell blindness, is the loss of the ability to detect one or more smells. [1] [2] Anosmia may be temporary or permanent. [3]It differs from hyposmia, which is a decreased sensitivity to some or all smells.
Loss of smell, by contrast, became less widespread, and the rate of hospital admissions declined compared to summer and fall 2021. Doctors now describe a clearer, more consistent pattern of symptoms.