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A mother who was infected with the coronavirus couldn’t smell her baby’s full diaper. Cooks who can usually name every spice in a restaurant dish can’t smell curry or garlic, and food tastes bland. Others say they can’t pick up the sweet scent of shampoo or the foul odor of kitty litter.

Anosmia, the loss of sense of smell, and ageusia, an accompanying diminished sense of taste, have emerged as peculiar telltale signs of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and possible markers of infection.

On Friday, British ear, nose and throat doctors, citing reports from colleagues around the world, called on adults who lose their senses of smell to isolate themselves for seven days, even if they have no other symptoms, to slow the disease’s spread. The published data is limited, but doctors are concerned enough to raise warnings.

“We really want to raise awareness that this is a sign of infection and that anyone who develops loss of sense of smell should self-isolate,” Prof. Claire Hopkins, president of the British Rhinological Society, wrote in an email. “It could contribute to slowing transmission and save lives.”


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In the areas of Italy most heavily affected by the virus, doctors say they have concluded that loss of taste and smell is an indication that a person who otherwise seems healthy is in fact carrying the virus and may be spreading it to others.

“Almost everybody who is hospitalized has this same story,” said Dr. Marco Metra, chief of the cardiology department at the main hospital in Brescia, where 700 of 1,200 inpatients have the coronavirus. “You ask about the patient’s wife or husband. And the patient says, ‘My wife has just lost her smell and taste but otherwise she is well.’ So she is likely infected, and she is spreading it with a very mild form.”

A study from South Korea, where widespread testing has been done, found that 30 percent of some 2,000 patients who tested positive for the coronavirus reported experiencing anosmia.


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Steve says his mouth tastes like something burned. So nothing sounds good when I ask what he wants to eat. And he comes up with vague requests. ‘Noodles, broth, something green.” “Rice, maybe like a stir fry or something” Today he asked for bacon. And pancakes. (My cousin, the MD who has been checking in with me every day said she didn’t think somebody who was in danger of going into shock would be asking for blueberry pancakes and bacon. Big Grin


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Hopeful news!


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That is very encouraging as I savor a maple bacon cookie.


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Bacon! That’s a big flavor. Sounds good that Steve is thinking of it. A little better every day!


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We started eating healthier after Sarah's stay at the hospital in the first couple of days in January.

My middle daughter, Katie, flew home from NH to set our diet straight and to help out around the house for week.

My weight loss has been slow to non-existent. Since we have been on COVID-19 alert, I have dropped almost 10lbs! YAY for conserving food and eating smaller portions!
 
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Another symptom that hasn’t been mentioned comes from the nurses and caregivers at the nursing home in Washington. They said many patients had red eyes. It sounded like the sclera, the normally white part, was tinged red.

They also said they didn’t see runny noses, a symptom that has benn listed as typical.


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