“Even now, I don’t feel like eating anything and literally force myself to eat to regain immunity and weight,” she says. She lost almost 7kg of weight after Covid and became very weak. Certain foods like beetroot and yoghurt would make her nauseous. There was no dish I could enjoy except desserts because they were sweet,” she says. “Eventually everything tasted the same - bad. “Often patients suffering from parosmia can’t eat properly since even good smells become unpleasant,” he says. Chandra Veer Singh, consultant otorhinolaryngologist at Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai, a study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that 50% of people recovering from Covid experienced loss of smell up to a month, 10% had no improvement after 1 month and 1% didn’t improve 6-18 months. Some also experience parosmia, a distortion of the sense of smell in which ordinary things such as onion, meat and even chocolate smell repulsive. While most Covid-19 patients who lose the ability to taste or smell recover it within four weeks, a small number don’t regain it fully for months. “My father would spray deodorant right in front of me and I wouldn’t be able to tell.” Kaur’s condition is known as anosmia, and is one of the long-term effects of Covid-19 that can persist for weeks after the initial illness. “I was baking biscuits and couldn’t even smell them burning though I was right there,” she recalls. Worried, she began searching for help online and tried home remedies like eating raw garlic in water but to no avail. After recovering, she regained 10% but lost it again over the next ten months. Amanjyot Kaur first lost her sense of taste and smell after being diagnosed with Covid last June.
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