Smell loss became the cardinal symptom of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and has ignited research on how smell and taste function. An international study led by the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) and the Monell Chemical Senses Center has untied taste from smell in people with COVID-19, demonstrating in a large and diverse group of more than 10,000 people that taste, independent of smell, is also greatly impacted by COVID. The team recently published their findings in Chemical Senses.
Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc.Aug 18 2023 Smell loss became the cardinal symptom of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and has ignited research on how smell and taste function.
Our aim was to empower people worldwide by using common items available in their homes to monitor their sense of smell and taste during the peaks of the pandemic. These findings represent a unique and significant opportunity to document the impact of early COVID variants on human taste perception, an understudied and misunderstood topic. While the general public usually associates COVID with the loss of smell, our findings shed light on the less recognized effect on taste.
Related StoriesCOVID-positive patients reported a 21 percent reduction in taste intensity, a 47 percent reduction in smell intensity and a 17 percent reduction in oral irritant intensity, when compared with the group reporting no symptoms. The team also found the intensity of the smell and taste deficiencies for COVID-positive patients to be at their most intense at symptom onset.
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