While the loss of taste or smell is usually a symptom of underlying disease and doesn't have immediate health consequences on its own, it can be difficult to know what to eat when you can't taste anything. Not being able to enjoy food really dulls the incentive to eat well! The good ...
From the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have reported patients experiencing COVID-19–related loss of smell and/or taste, but it became clear that only some infected people experienced these symptoms. In this new effort, the researchers wanted to know why, and to find out they looked at ...
The UK has listed anosmia and ageusmia as symptoms of COVID-19 after doctors noticed a pattern that many patients reported losing their smell and taste.
The study, with more than 2,600 respondents (70 percent from France), found that wine professionals suffered both COVID and its smell and taste loss at about the same rates as the general population. A majority of COVID sufferers identified in the study developed anosmia (complete smell...