Posted on 03/25/2020 4:42:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Doctors and researchers still have much to learn about the exact symptoms caused by COVID-19, but a group of ear, nose and throat doctors now suspect two such symptoms may be an altered sense of taste, called dysgeusia, and a loss of smell, known as anosmia.
In a statement released earlier this week, the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery reported: "Anecdotal evidence is rapidly accumulating from sites around the world that anosmia and dysgeusia are significant symptoms associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Anosmia, in particular, has been seen in patients ultimately testing positive for the coronavirus with no other symptoms."
But many other viral infections, including the common cold, similarly can impair one's senses. About 40% of patients recovering from a viral illness report a loss of smell, according to Dr. D.J. Verret, who's double board certified in otolaryngology, head and neck, and facial plastic surgery.
"The sense of taste and smell are very closely related," he said. "We know from previous research that coronavirus infections are seen in post-viral anosmia. It is therefore not a stretch to think that COVID-19, caused by a coronavirus, can result in smell or taste disturbances."
According to a case report from Taiwan, a woman infected with SARS, a close cousin of COVID-19, lost her sense of smell for more than two years. There isn't yet significant data linking COVID-19 to altered senses of smell or taste, but the anecdotal evidence is growing.
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How nice. Next they’ll tell us some unlucky victims will become mutant flesh-eating zombies.
Then a freeper will say it’s all a joke.
Of the top of my head I can’t remember it but there is a drug that can cause this. Maybe someone else can. Interesting.
It’s such a non specific symptom. “Dysguesia”. “Paraguesia”. Words I haven’t used in a long, LONG time. Surprised I can remember how to spell them.
“He’s got anosmia? How does he smell?”
“Terrible.”
My taste buds never really recovered from chemo.
In its advanced stages, just before dementia sets in, Socialism doesn’t seem to smell rotten.
“COVID turned me into a Neut”
“I got better”
SO this item is reported quite fairly. There’s no proof yet but:
1. There’s growing anecdotal evidence
2. There’s similarities to SARS where this has happened before so it makes sense
Contrast with the WHO and media line on anti-malarial drugs, which is a drumbeat of negativity “the evidence is only anectdotal” “there’s no proof”, it’s not a panacea etc etc.
Even if you put aside TDS, what does this tell you about the press? They think there’s no harm letting you know the facts about this issue, but they think there’s harm (either political — admitting Trump was right, or medical — people will eat fish tank chemicals) telling you the real facts about anti-malarials.
Which only proves what we already know: they see themselves as social justice warriors not objective journalists.
Taste is over 90% “smell”. Olfactory neurons can be very sensitive and if they drop out they are neurons, they don’t get replaced. There can be some slow up regulation of sensitivity to get some recovery but it is serious but not terribly disabling so you don’t get much sympathy. Not being able to taste food takes away a great part of the experience of being human. I imagine it’s terribly disabling.
I think more than one drug can cause this.
I am currently taking a medication that makes some food taste odd, like it is going bad. Foods that I used to like have become almost impossible to eat. For our anniversary, my husband bought something that he knows I really like, and I didn’t have the heart to tell him that it tasted awful.
More so things taste different than they used to. Especially ‘sour’ and ‘spicy’. Both are extremely exaggerated now. The rest is somewhat bland. Chemo attacks the rapid growing cells. So when they healed, I was left like this.
Not being able to smell is devastating.
Imagine NEVER being able to tell whether something toxic in your environment is potentially about to kill you, and you are utterly unaware.
Smell is your most important sense for self preservation.
From toxic chemicals to fires, you are unable to detect danger and save yourself.
Eventually, you can get to a point where you come to assume there is something dangerous *everywhere* and live in a constant state of hyper vigilance.
It is an unsung agony that many make light of.
“Wow. You’re really lucky you can’t smell that!”
They have no idea what you would give to be able to detect *any* smell, no matter how foul society might consider it.
A sense of smell lets us live in a “3D” world.
Without it, you’d be shocked just how two dimensional everything is.
Perhaps the severe mucositis damaged my taste buds.
Incidentally .. . when was the last time you used, “impecunious”?
( i.e. : Due to the Coronavirus I became impecunious .. . )
I other words it has the typical effects of a cold. The are digging deep to write an entire article about a side effect of colds observed for centuries.
I’m not a finance guy. LOL. Although I have read Dickens.
I would like to think were I to suddenly become “impecunious” along with every one else at the same time I would consider it a challenge. Like a foot race. We all start out at the same place at the same time and, “We’re off!”
Not an English major either but passive and active are tenses or something like that, aren’t they?
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