Get your taste and smell back after covid

I had covid beginning 31/10/21. I took Ivermectin but unfortunately went to the second stage anyway – pneumonia. My daughter’s boyfriend’s mother is a doctor – so fortunately I didn’t have to go to the hospital to be treated. My husband also had covid. She prescribed medication for blood clots, some to prevent over reaction of the immune system and an antibiotic for the pneumonia. After 12 days I was fine (it wasn’t so bad – weak and coughing up phlegm during the pneumonia stage). It usually takes up to 6 months to fully recover from pneumonia. I’m not fully recovered yet but much, much better.

The worst part is that I lost taste and smell. One of my hobbies is finding interesting recipes and preparing them. I’m an accomplished home cook. Well, taste was almost there but missing the most important taste for a cook. I could taste sweet, sour, bitter, and salty; but I couldn’t taste savory. Savory includes all the nuances of taste – the spices, the tannin in wine, even the taste of whiskey which was unrecognizable for me.

That is when I decided to try to shock my system to get it to turn on taste and smell again. As a cook, I know how important salt is to enhance the flavor of things – even magnify them.

So I tried something which was very simple. This totally restored both my taste and smell in one day.

Step 1: put 1 ½ teaspoons of salt in a cup or mug.
Step 2: Stir until dissolved.
Step 3: Swish a mouthful of the salt water around in your mouth 3 times and spit it out.
Step 4: Repeat until the glass is empty.

After about an hour I could both smell and taste again. It wasn’t fully restored but much better.
I repeated this 2 more times, once in the afternoon and once before going to bed.

The next morning I had regained 100% of my taste and about 80% of my smell. I’m going to continue this to see if I can get all my smell back.

You might need to do this more than 3 times – so do it as long as needed – it will also kill bacteria in your mouth – so not a waste of time anyway.

I’m sharing this only to help those who have lost taste and smell, because I know how devastating it is.

I will check back from time to time to see if this has helped anyone.

I feel for those without taste and smell – I’m not a doctor – this just worked for me and my husband.