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ARPad95

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35. Do you know about the Long COVID Support website?
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 01:23 AM
Aug 2022
https://www.longcovid.org/

From the Resources > Patients > Symptom Management page, click on the "Loss of Smell/Taste" link. The drop down box has a "Taste & Flavour" link which takes you to this website:

https://lifekitchen.co.uk/product/taste-flavour-digital-book/

Free Life Kitchen Taste & Flavour book
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Simply add the FREE Taste and Flavor digital download to your basket, once checked out you will receive an email with the download link! This download is available worldwide.

When it first came to light that many people with Covid-19 were experiencing loss of taste and smell, our first thought was – what can we do to help?

At Life Kitchen, we want to help as many people as possible to enjoy food again, and in doing so take further steps, however small, towards recovering their overall well-being. So welcome to our Taste & Flavour book. In it, you’ll find a range of recipes that use ingredient combinations, along with textures and other sensory factors, that we hope will help you derive pleasure from food – and we’ve excluded the ingredients we now know most people with Covid don’t fancy.

We undertook research and discovered that Covid-related taste and smell loss has some distinctive features. Sufferers found they didn’t want to eat certain, quite common ingredients, including onions, garlic, meat and eggs. In addition, certain foodstuffs seemed to trigger parosmia (changes to or distortion of the sense of smell), anosmia (loss of smell) and phantosmia (smelling something that isn’t there). Any of these olfactory conditions can have a profound knock-on effect for physical and mental health.

Using our five principles of taste and flavour – umami, smell, stimulating the trigeminal nerve (responsible for sensation in the face), texture, and layering flavour – we’ve taught over 1,000 people with cancer to enjoy food again. We wanted to apply these principles to create recipes for those people who have lost their senses of taste and smell as a result of Covid. Learn more about the science behind Life Kitchen.


Hope this will be helpful to you and you're able to enjoy food again.




I can't imagine what you're going through !!! Your doctors are idiots. I have no suggestions... real Karadeniz Aug 2022 #1
salad has been hit or miss. depending on the greens. I can't do olives anymore PA_jen Aug 2022 #2
Have you noticed ANY improvement since this began? I thought I read that the taste problem was Karadeniz Aug 2022 #8
The only real improvement if you can call it that is water. PA_jen Aug 2022 #10
This is truly a health issue and I can't think of a single type of doctor who would know how to Karadeniz Aug 2022 #39
The long covid websites you can find them on Google. Your Drs are assholes irisblue Aug 2022 #3
You take to your dentist about this yet? irisblue Aug 2022 #4
I should have thought about it. need to look into those. PA_jen Aug 2022 #5
I wish you all the best. irisblue Aug 2022 #9
Thank you PA_jen Aug 2022 #11
Taste changes after head&neck cancers have decades of research irisblue Aug 2022 #14
This may sound dumb dweller Aug 2022 #6
I tried holding my nose and sipping on water.. didn't work.. but that wasn't out of left PA_jen Aug 2022 #13
My personal speculation of exploring diet Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #7
I am willing to give anything a try. Thank you for the suggestions. PA_jen Aug 2022 #15
Have you tried sparkling flavored water? Bluethroughu Aug 2022 #26
I got the message that the grandmother didn't do Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #29
When I feel nauseous at140 Aug 2022 #12
I'll give it a try. PA_jen Aug 2022 #17
cumin has a related effect on reducing stomach cramps Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #30
may be true, but I can't chew cumin for an hour at140 Aug 2022 #40
I had some of these issues. But never threw up. boston bean Aug 2022 #16
This sounds terrible! leighbythesea2 Aug 2022 #18
Total long shot but cheap, legal and safe 4dog Aug 2022 #19
and 5-20 minutes of sunshine on face for Vitamin D-3 Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #31
I had that strange metallic taste, but also intense mouth pain Baitball Blogger Aug 2022 #20
No solutions here, but... DET Aug 2022 #21
You might want to look into I.F. Sky Jewels Aug 2022 #22
Toking cannabis by chance? Humulene is the terpeme I figured out was giving me stomach issues. Brainfodder Aug 2022 #23
My sister had same exact problems... Bluethroughu Aug 2022 #24
Your husband is a gem -- that much comes thru. Hekate Aug 2022 #25
I think a University Hospital might be helpful...They at least seem to me... electric_blue68 Aug 2022 #27
My heart goes out to you Safety Dawg Aug 2022 #28
My sense of cilantro has also improved quite a bit Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #32
I know right?! Safety Dawg Aug 2022 #33
great to know i am not the only one Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #34
Do you know about the Long COVID Support website? ARPad95 Aug 2022 #35
When I became ill in the late 90's with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity after Malathion poisoning, womanofthehills Aug 2022 #36
i'm really sorry you're going thru this orleans Aug 2022 #37
Try Turmeric Boswellia longislandAnnie Aug 2022 #38
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