Coping with Parosmia—Perceived Rancid Smells

Tens of thousands of lives have been turned upside down by a long COVID symptom that shifts the sympathetic nervous system into overdrive.
Coping with Parosmia—Perceived Rancid Smells
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Dade Cook was 31 years old and in the second trimester of her pregnancy when she contracted COVID-19. She healed, but the disease returned just a few weeks before she was to give birth. The second round was worse, although she tested negative for COVID-19 at that point.
Mrs. Cook, who without regret, refused the vaccine, is convinced that COVID-19 was the cause of her loss of smell and taste the week before going into labor with her third child.
Alexandra Roach
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Alexandra Roach is a board-certified holistic health practitioner, community herbalist, and master gardener. She studied sustainable food and farming and lives with her family on an off-grid permaculture homestead. Roach works as a journalist and author, and writes with a broad perspective on health, gardening, and lifestyle choices.
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