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Loss of sense of smell isn't uncommon for cold or flue. Oddly it may depend on what you've got in a way I can't explain. I remember utterly losing smell, then s
by throwaway_pdp09 7y ago
Loss of sense of smell isn't uncommon for cold or flue. Oddly it may depend on what you've got in a way I can't explain. I remember utterly losing smell, then starting to recover it in a pub just before closing time when one of the bar staff was splashing brasso (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasso) around to clean the taps. I literally could no smell a thing beforehand. Yet I've had cold/flus where that didn't happen. It would be interesting to know why one coronavir does and another doesn't.
FYI loss of smell is known to be an early symptoms of parkinsons IIRC.
- gameswithgo 7y agoif you have turbinates in your sinuses, and they inflame when sick/allergic, it can reach a tipping point where you can't smell any more. So one flu may inflame them more than another, or you have have grown more/larger turbinates later in life where you more easily lose your sense of smell. perhaps covid-19 cause the loss via some other mechanism entirely, I have no idea.
- throwaway_pdp09 7y agoInteresting, I've never come across the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinate FYI for others. Thanks for that