parosmia

How to use parosmia in a sentence

• Although most patients recovered their sense of taste and smell in a few weeks, about 10 percent had persisting symptoms like parosmia, which can distort familiar odors for a person.

  Some people still can’t smell or taste a year after COVID | Maggie Galloway | January 18, 2022 | Popular-Science

• According to preliminary research, as many as half of those individuals also develop what’s known as parosmia, which distorts scents—subbing in, say, the smell of spoiled milk where there should be the aroma of coffee.

  Many COVID-19 Survivors Still Can't Smell or Taste. Treating Them Isn't Easy | Jamie Ducharme | November 4, 2021 | Time

• Although experts don’t know what overall proportion of patients will be affected by parosmia, it is “probably a significant number,” said Justin Turner, medical director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Smell and Taste Center.

  When coffee smells like gasoline: Covid isn’t just stealing senses — it may be warping them | Allyson Chiu | November 5, 2020 | Washington Post

• parosmia, or the sensation of a bad odour, may be of functional origin; it sometimes occurs after influenza.

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