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Losing sense of smell: Personal accounts of the COVID symptom
When senses of taste and smell are lost due to COVID, it doesn’t always manifest in the same way. Some people experience total loss, while others get phantosmia, detecting smells that aren’t even there, like an odorous hallucination.
By Evan Kleiman • • 8m ListenWhen senses of taste and smell are lost due to COVID, it doesn’t always manifest in the same way. Some people experience total loss, while others get phantosmia, detecting smells that aren’t even there, like an odorous hallucination. Krissy Lefebvre, Sakeenah Benjamin, Dolores Quintana, Jeanne Lim, Ken Christianson, and Dominique Generaux share their experiences of losing, regaining, and living without a sense of smell.
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The full episode
1 of 6Anosmia, sweat, sushi, mangoes- 0:00Losing sense of smell: Personal accounts of the COVID symptomYou’re reading this
- 8:56The nose knows: Anosmia and parosmia. What’s the difference?
- 18:15Understanding the mysteries of how and why we sweat
- 31:15Bill Addison reviews treasured sushi chef Mori Onodera’s Morihiro in Atwater Village
- 38:55Market mangoes: Tasting the last weeks of summer
- 47:02‘In the Weeds’ with the duo behind Sazòn, a hybrid of home and street food