{"id":31113,"date":"2020-11-07T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T23:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31113"},"modified":"2020-11-07T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T23:46:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/07\/word-of-the-day-623\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parosmia<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Parosmia is a term used to describe health conditions that distort your sense of smell. If you have parosmia, you may experience a loss of scent intensity, meaning you can\u2019t detect the full range of the scents around you. Sometimes parosmia causes things you encounter every day to seem like they have a strong, disagreeable odor. [healthline<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “When coffee smells like gasoline: Covid isn\u2019t just stealing senses \u2014 it may be warping them<\/em><\/a>,” Allyson Chiu, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Similar accounts of parosmia and a related odor distortion called phantosmia, which causes people to smell scents that aren\u2019t there, have flooded social media platforms in recent months.\u00a0Facebook groups<\/a>\u00a0for those with covid-related smell loss and distortions now have thousands of members. Some\u00a0say they catch whiffs of cigarette smoke<\/a>\u00a0everywhere they go. Others\u00a0can\u2019t identify<\/a> the fetid smell that consistently assaults their senses. Yanna Casey, 25 of Atlanta, said the stench is particularly bad when she is around cleaning supplies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My Arts Editor spoke of a fecal odor the other night, which I couldn’t detect. For the record, we were both very ill with “stomach flu” in late February, and have never had the antibody test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parosmia: Parosmia is a term used to describe health conditions that distort your sense of smell. If you have parosmia, you may experience a loss of scent intensity, meaning you can\u2019t detect the full range of the scents around you. Sometimes parosmia causes things you encounter every day to seem \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31114,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113\/revisions\/31114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}