Just a random question regarding Covid

[diamondsareagirls]

First off I got my first vaccine today! But anyway, I hear so much about the loss of taste and smell. For me, with many bad colds (perhaps they are sinus infections), I completely lose my taste and smell. Like I can eat a whole clove of garlic, suck a lemon, can't smell perfume....totally gone. Could it be that some of those colds were not the common rhinovirus but a type of coronavirus? Or is it quite common with colds? Thank you! Just been curious!

 

[Missy]

Most cold viruses cause congestion which causes one to lose some smell and taste but it isn't the same thing as coronavirus which attacks the sensory olfactory neurons in the nose and can trigger a complete loss of smell aka anosmia.


Here is an article that explains this further. HTH.

COVID-19 affects sense of smell differently than colds, flu

connect.uclahealth.org

 

[Missy]

Thank you! I was wondering if those colds could have been another type of coronavirus (not Covid19) as I really do have total loss of smell and taste.

The only way you could definitively know is take a Covid test.

 

[diamondsareagirls]

The only way you could definitively know is take a Covid test.

I think that just tests for Covid 19? There are other coronaviruses that cause the common cold and I am wondering if that is what also caused by total loss of smell or if it was just congestion

 

[Missy]

I think that just tests for Covid 19?

Sorry I’m multitasking and missed the not Covid part. I wonder if an antibody blood test could show what the virus is?

 

[diamondsareagirls]

Sorry I’m multitasking and missed the not Covid part. I wonder if an antibody blood test could show what the virus is?

They were so long ago probably not!

 

[Missy]

They were so long ago probably not!

Oh no then. But I wonder if it could have been done.

 

[House Cat]

Common Human Coronaviruses | CDC

Provides overview of the Common Human Coronavirus, including symptoms, transmission, prevention of viral respiratory infections, treatment, and testing.

www.cdc.gov

List of symptoms caused by common coronaviruses

 

[Aerielle Max]

What brand of vaccine did you take? Do you have existing other illness?

 

[doberman]

Smell is particulate, so if your nose is stuffed with mucus from a cold, you're not going to be able to smell much at all. And taste is strongly tied to smell. What distinguishes covid is the prolonged loss of taste and smell, lasting months after the infection has passed. So it's unlikely you had covid if your ability to smell and taste returned soon after the rhinovirus.