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Why do you lose your sense of taste when you get covid?
I am a 27 year old female. I want to know why do you lose your sense of taste when you get covid?
1 Answer
It's not known exactly, but it obviously involves virus interaction with the cranial nerves responsible for taste and smell. All viruses have what's known as "tropism" for specific tissues and in the nervous system this can mean specific areas of the brain or peripheral nervous system. COVID obviously has a tropism for the 1st (olfactory=smell) and a branch of the 5th (taste).