Losing taste and smell? It's not always cold or Covid: AIIMS-trained gut doctor warns of hidden nutrient deficiency and foods to fix itAIIMS and Harvard trained gastroenterologist Dr Saurabh Sethi has warned that the sudden loss of taste and smell, often mistaken for flu or...
27 Nov, 2025, 07.29 PM IST
Blame your parents for how food smells to you, your genes play a major roleA groundbreaking genetic study reveals that our DNA significantly influences how we perceive and react to everyday smells. Researchers iden...
04 Aug, 2025, 09.05 AM IST
Covid-19: Researchers study why some people lose their sense of smell. Read hereThe researchers collected 24 nose-tissue samples: nine from COVID patients who had long-term smell loss, two from COVID patients who recove...
22 Dec, 2022, 11.53 AM IST
Long Covid may last over 12 weeks in unvaccinated, obese kidsAn additional 3.3 per cent reported that symptoms such as loss of taste and smell, cough, and difficulty breathing persisted for longer tha...
11 Aug, 2022, 01.11 PM IST
How do I know if I have a cold, the flu or COVID?Symptoms of common colds, the flu and COVID-19 can overlap, so experts say testing is the best way to determine what you have
10 Jan, 2022, 10.57 AM IST
From the way we eat to intimacy barriers, Covid smell loss changed people's relationships with themselves & the worldUntil you lose it, you don't realise how essential eating is to everyday joys
27 Sep, 2021, 06.45 PM IST
COVID linked to loss of brain tissue, but correlation doesn't prove causationNow, a new study from the University of Oxford suggests that COVID can lead to long-term loss of brain tissue. This is a worrying find, whi...
29 Jun, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
One in ten suffer long-term effects 8 months following mild COVID-19: StudyResearchers at Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have been conducting the so-called COMMUNITY study since spring last y...
08 Apr, 2021, 12.33 PM IST
Nine in ten recovered COVID-19 patients experience side-effects: StudyIn an online survey of 965 recovered COVID-19 patients, 879 people or 91.1% responded they were suffering at least one side-effect from the...
29 Sep, 2020, 02.25 PM IST
Viral infection or coronavirus? How Covid-19 smell, taste loss differs from common cold, decodedSmell loss is much more profound in the Covid-19 patents, and they are less able to identify smells.
19 Aug, 2020, 04.31 PM IST
Coronavirus does not directly cause loss of taste, it may happen during inflammationThe study also indicates that taste bud cells are not vulnerable to Covid.
13 Aug, 2020, 04.33 PM IST
Can you get Covid-19 infection through food? Study suggests taste bud cells are not coronavirus targetsResearchers also showed that other viruses that affect taste, including the flu virus.
06 Aug, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
A new study says coronavirus may attack patients' nervous system, cause anxiety and depressionThe study says these psychological symptoms may be linked to the widely reported disruption of the sense of smell and taste caused by the i...
16 Jul, 2020, 05.23 PM IST
Loss of smell, taste symptoms can help quarantining potential COVID-19 patients: StudyBased on the results of the survey, the researchers, including those from Humanitas University in Italy, said the reduction of taste and/or...
21 Jun, 2020, 03.19 PM IST
Loss of smell or taste added to list of COVID-19 symptoms: Health MinistryThe ministry said that coronavirus-infected patients reporting to various COVID-19 treatment facilities have been reporting symptoms like f...
13 Jun, 2020, 06.29 PM IST
Government mulling to include sudden loss of taste, smell as criteria for COVID-19 testAccording to an expert, even though the symptom is not specific to COVID-19 as one may suffer from loss of smell and taste when they have f...
12 Jun, 2020, 04.31 PM IST
Not just loss of smell, diminished sense of taste also early symptom of coronavirusIn some COVID-19 cases, loss of smell is permanent.
24 Mar, 2020, 06.02 PM IST