COVID’s symptoms can vary widely, from headaches to digestive disorders and extreme fatigue. However, there is a set of symptoms that has become a hallmark of the virus worldwide: loss of taste and smell. According to a 2020 meta-analysis of patients with COVID published by the Mayo Clinic, among a group of 8,438 patients with COVID interviewed in 24 studies, 41 percent of individuals with confirmed cases of the virus experienced loss of smell or taste.
Although many people regain the ability to taste and smell as they recover from the virus, these senses are not always the same when they return. According to a survey conducted by Eater, there is a specific food that many individuals who have recovered from COVID simply cannot swallow: onions.
Among a group of five individuals who recovered from COVID and were later interviewed by Eater, three said that the onion stood out as a particularly unpleasant food months after the infection subsided.
One Eater interviewee described onions as “horrible” in taste and another described them as “disgusting”, while a third said that the smell of onions had become so harmful that they smelled “putrid” and “dangerous”.
This is not the only disconcerting change in your taste or smell that you can experience after COVID. According to one person interviewed by the BBC, COVID made meat products with a taste of gasoline; a Newsweek interviewee who recovered from COVID said that wine “tastes like oil” after infection.
Although distorted smell can be a persistent and unpleasant symptom of COVID, it is far from the only one that bothers those who are recovering from the virus. Read on to find out which researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and members of the Survivor Corps group have found to be the most common persistent symptoms among COVID long haulers. And if you want to do your part to protect others, Dr. Fauci says that we have to “double” these 2 things to stop COVID.
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Dizziness
COVID long haulers affected: 41.86 percent
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Memory problems
COVID long haulers affected: 45.56 percent
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Anxiety
COVID long haulers affected: 47.61 percent
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Difficulty sleeping
COVID long haulers affected: 49.90 percent
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Headache
COVID long haulers affected: 57.56 percent
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Inability to exercise or be active
COVID long haulers affected: 58.56 percent
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Difficulty concentrating or focusing
COVID long haulers affected: 58.97 percent
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Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
COVID long haulers affected: 65.10 percent
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Muscle or body aches
COVID long haulers affected: 66.75 percent
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Fatigue
COVID long haulers affected: 100 percent
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