The loss of taste and smell are common COVID-19 symptoms, but until it happens to you, you might not understand how devastating it can be.
I only lost my senses for about a week, but combined with the loneliness of isolation and the lingering thought that they might never return, eating became a joyless activity. I polled my Instagram followers, and many reported losing their taste and smell for three, six, or nine months. A few haven’t gotten it back since they got COVID-19 two years ago.
“It looks like cells in your nose temporarily get shut off or damaged in some way, like a light switch,” said Datta. “After a couple of weeks of healing, the light switch gets turned back on and your nose works again. In the patients that lose their sense of smell for longer, for months, it looks like the cells that are responsible for actually smelling, the neurons in your nose that detect odors, those cells might be getting damaged by the virus.
If you can’t smell, you also can’t taste. A lot of what we taste reflects the aromas we breathe in through the nose. Scent also travels up the back of your throat into your nasal cavity while you’re chewing. And if you think losing taste and smell is bad, there’s a COVID symptom that’s far worse.
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