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Lost Your Sense of Taste through COVID?
Here are a few simple things to do to regain your appetite…
From cradle to grave, the taste of food is a constant in our life. Eating is a form of nourishment, but is can also be a source of great enjoyment.
It is often our daily meals that offer us the greatest and the longest-lasting pleasure.
So if you haven’t been tucking into your food with the enthusiasm of a desert mule deer at a mountain spring, then your senses of taste and smell may have been affected when you contracted the virus.
The frightening reality is that an estimated 41 percent of people have had some form of taste loss after a coronavirus infection.
I escaped catching COVID up until recently, when the new Omicron sub-variant BA.5 reached our shores and I got infected. I have been fully jabbed but the experts say this variant is particularly good at evading the immune protection given by vaccination or prior infection.
All I know is that for the first three days I was blown up with fever, sweating like a glass of beer on a hot day and coughing like a tubercular donkey.
I lost all interest in food for three days and when I started to feel hungry again I realized that my smell and taste were lacking.
