Since coming down with Covid-19 in September (2021), 11-year-old Malisse Kafi has found it difficult to eat or drink because everything tastes “like poo and rotten eggs”.
His mum Dawn Kafi, from Liverpool, England, said: “It began with Malisse thinking his food had gone off.
“He says that food tastes like poo and sewerage, and water tastes of rotten eggs.
“He just stopped eating – food was making him retch and gag. It was horrendous.
“It was really hard to know what to do. https://sites.thestar.com.my/tsolnewsletter/default_story.aspx?s=lifestyle%2Fhealth&k=covid-19%20watch&ku=lifestyle%2Fchildren
“We tried everything to try and get him to eat, cooking all his favourite foods, but it all just made him feel really sick.”
Malisse was diagnosed with parosmia – a symptom where people experience strange and often unpleasant smell distortions – and given a steroid nasal spray, but it didn’t help.
By November, he had lost around 2kg and was rushed to hospital, dehydrated
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