Salty!

[ljgeoff]

So, for the last couple of years, I've been experiencing a marked increase in my perception of salt tast; everything tastes salty!

Quantitative analysis of taste disorder in COVID-19 patients, the hypersensitivity to salty quality

"The results indicated the increment of sweet (2.68 ± 0.14), sour (3.34 ± 0.12) and bitter (3.39 ± 0.2) thresholds in COVID-19 patients with taste disorder in comparison with patients without taste disorder that the threshold were: 2 ± 0.16, 2.11 ± 0.2 and 2.55 ± 0.5 for sweet, sour, and bitter respectively. On the other hand, the patients inversely showed a significant decrease in the salty taste threshold (0.51 ± 0.03) compared to COVID-19 positive control groups (1.11 ± 0.11)."

So, if you've had covid once or thrice, you may have a higher sensitivity to the taste of salt! And less sensitivity to sweet, bitter, and sour.


M. Mahdi Asadi, Z. Shankayi, F. Bahrami, T. Mohammadzadeh, H. Amini, M. Naderi,
Quantitative analysis of taste disorder in COVID-19 patients, the hypersensitivity to salty quality, New Microbes and New Infections, Volume 43, 2021,100919

Comments

[a_phoenixdragon]

Damn...interesting. Terrible. But interesting. I wonder if the virus leaves elevated or reduced salt levels (like lithium, other alkalines??) as generally when you can taste salt, that means your body (at least in my experience) either means LACK or oversaturation of the same. Either way, interesting.

Terrible. But interesting.

*HUGS*

[bibliofile]

Interesting! I hadn't heard of the longer term changes in taste sensitivities. Do you think you'll write more about it, or is just a dialed down/up thing?