Children are becoming fussy eaters after contracting Covid-19, experts have warned parents.
Youngsters who have contracted the virus have been found to have developed a strange side effect known as parosmia, a disorder which causes people to experience unusual or unpleasant smell distortions, particularly around food.
Those who live with the condition have reported that food can smell like petrol, rotting cabbage, rotten eggs and faeces.
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Now medical experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Fifth Sense, a charity for people affected by smell and taste disorders, say Covid-19 could be the reason children are refusing to eat food they once enjoyed.
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Professor Carl Philpott, from UEA’s Norwich Medical School said: “Parosmia is thought to be a product of having less smell receptors working, which leads to only being able to pick up some of the components of a smell mixture,” he said.
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