Posted on Monday February 15, 2021 at 4:35 p.m.
Some people infected with the coronavirus in recent months are experiencing the phenomenon of parosmia, which affects our taste. Positive for Covid-19 last March, Jonathan has still not recovered his true taste for things, he tells of his ordeal.
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Like thousands of people around the world, Jonathan, a 32-year-old Briton, has been deprived of the pleasure of eating and drinking. Indeed, since he was infected with the coronavirus, everything he drinks and everything he eats tastes like fresh blood, even metal or yeast, as he explains to our colleagues at the Mirror.
From now on, the young man simply hopes that he can recover his senses and looks forward to no longer being a victim of parosmia. Indeed, it is about an olfactory perception which does not correspond to the stimulation. The subject confuses smells, for example perceiving a foul odor when presented with a perfume. It is a symptom sometimes found in Parkinson’s disease, but it is also and especially described in patients who have had Covid-19.
An interminable wait
“For a long time, it just made eating hours incredibly uncomfortable. It is very painful and quite difficult to manage. It was quite sudden. I woke up one day and I no longer had a taste or smell, which, at the time, was not one of the official symptoms of the disease, ”says the Briton. If he regained his senses, these were then altered because of the parosmia he suffered. Whatever he eats, from now on, the taste remains the same and it is most unpleasant.
Jonathan may be patient, as it can take up to a year or two for normal functioning to resume, explains Sarah Oakley, a specialist in the matter. She says demand has exploded since the start of the pandemic because this phenomenon can be very frightening for patients. “I can not wait to find the good taste of coffee, now everything tastes like fresh blood and I have lost my appetite”, laments Jonathan.
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