But taste buds are relatively crude preceptors. A study published last month found that loss of smell due to COVID-19 will eventually return. Peoples sense of well-being declines. Viral or bacterial illnesses. "Whether it was . If you think worldwide about the number of people with Covid, even if only 10 percent have a more prolonged smell loss, were talking about potentially millions of people.. Avoid fried foods, roasted meats, onions, garlic, eggs, coffee and chocolate, which are some of the worst foods for parosmics, Try bland foods like rice, noodles, untoasted bread, steamed vegetables and plain yogurt, If you can't keep food down, consider unflavoured protein shakes. While poos smell is characteristically grim, youve probably become accustomed to what your own stool should smell like. The unpleasant smell misperception can occur long after you've had COVID-19. Michele Miller, of Bayside, N.Y., was infected with the coronavirus in March and hasnt smelled anything since then. Studies have linked anosmia to social isolation and anhedonia, an inability to feel pleasure, as well as a strange sense of detachment and isolation. Sarah Govier, a health care worker in England who experienced parosmia after getting Covid-19, created Covid Anosmia/Parosmia Support Group over the summer. The ideal poo appears like a smooth, soft sausage, or is sausage-shaped with cracks on the surface, revealed Ramsay Health Care UK . Even worse, some Covid-19 survivors are tormented by phantom odors that are unpleasant and often noxious, like the smells of burning plastic, ammonia or feces, a distortion called parosmia. Bowel cancer warning: Does your poo look like this? Some people recovering from COVID-19 report that foods taste rotten, metallic, or skunk-like, describing a condition called parosmia. Ms McCreith is urging young people to get vaccinated and play their part in stopping the spread of coronavirus, as part of the Spread the Facts campaign, by the NHS and local councils in Cheshire and Merseyside. UC College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor Latonya Jackson talks to Spectrum News about how pollution affects waterways in Ohio.