“I felt like I was eating an ashtray,” she says.
But soon after she started smelling smoke, she began to taste ashes. Her headaches, brain fog and sharp pains in her hands, legs and feet were more concerning than changes to her ability to smell.
Then, throughout the fall and winter, I experienced a variety of long COVID symptoms.” “I was pretty sick for about a week,” she says. She doesn’t recall whether she lost her ability to smell during her initial illness because her other symptoms were worse. Eskridge was experiencing the first disruption to her sense of smell caused by COVID-19, which she had been infected with eight months before, back in June 2020. “I was in the clinic, and it smelled like someone had left a floor heater on,” she says, recalling a moment in early 2021. Try to look on the bright side: if you can’t taste, it makes taking those unpleasant cold medicines much more bearable.Speech language therapist Hannah Eskridge, MSP, was sure she smelled something burning. Fortunately, colds normally go away within a few days, regardless of treatment. If your symptoms become severe or last more than a week, it’s recommended that you speak to your health care provider. Over-the-counter medications like decongestants or antihistamines can help, too. You can also irrigate your nasal cavity with salt-water or use warm compresses on your face. Using a humidifier, taking long showers, drinking lots of fluids, or using a saline nasal spray can all help to ease congestion. Keeping your nasal passages and sinuses moist can help decrease congestion. When you have a cold, your nasal passages become inflamed and produce excess mucus that can make you feel stuffed up. This leaves everything tasting pretty much the same. So, if your nasal passage is blocked by mucus that keeps you sniffling and sneezing, your olfactory receptor cells aren't being visited by those odors. The sense of smell is actually responsible for much of what is typically thought of as the sense of taste. While the tongue has thousands of taste buds to measure the four primary tastes - salty, sour, sweet, and bitter - the olfactory receptor cells at the top of the nasal cavity measure the odors that provide you with the sumptuous (or not-so-sumptuous) flavors associated with certain foods. Your inability to taste anything when you have a cold is closely related to all the sniffling that keeps you inside and under the blankets. As if a runny nose, coughing, and a sore throat weren't bad enough, you and millions of others coping with a cold can't even savor the flavor of homemade soup.
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