
A separate Newsweek article quoted a patient as saying, "I had COVID, now my food tastes rotten and wine tastes like oil." Research has yet to explain why these particular scents and flavors are seemingly common-only that they're the result of damaged nasal nerve endings and olfactory receptors.

Another woman interviewed by BBC News about her symptoms reported that " meat tastes like petrol and Prosecco tastes like rotting apples" since contracting COVID. Meat, to Spicer, tasted universally rotten.Īs it turns out, accounts of COVID patients smelling or tasting gasoline and rot are surprisingly prevalent. Try to find substitutes so you are still able to maintain good. They may also be a sign of underlying disease. These disorders can affect quality of life. They may cause you to detect a bad odor or taste from something that is normally pleasant to taste or smell. What tastes off today may taste normal next week. Reduced ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter, or salty things In other disorders, odors, tastes, or flavors may be misread or distorted. Try a variety of flavors, temperatures and textures. One-in-10 patients with diminished or otherwise altered sense of smell or taste reported that the symptom was persistent or worse at 4 weeks.

But months later in October, Spicer noticed while drinking a glass of freshly opened red wine that her beverage tasted "like gasoline." In fact, coffee had the same flavor, a surefire sign that her olfactory cues were misfiring. The following tips may make managing taste changes easier. Among these patients, just under half (48.7) reported complete resolution of smell or taste impairment 4 weeks after symptom onset and 2 out of 5 (40.7) reported improved severity of the symptoms. "I thought I had recovered," she explained. 'If it happens days later, especially if in combination with loss of smell, its a. Jennifer Spicer, MD, an infectious disease physician at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, shared her experience of parosmia with the Post after recovering from COVID-19 in July. If your taste is altered as a side effect of the vaccine, it should happen immediately following your shot.
