More children are becoming fussy eaters after getting COVID-19, experts have suggested.is leading to growing numbers of youngsters developing parosmia - a disorder where people experience strange and often unpleasant smell distortions, researchers found.
Professor Carl Philpott, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said in many cases the condition is "putting children off their food, and many may be finding it difficult to eat at all". "But in the last few months, particularly since COVID started sweeping through classrooms last September, we've become more and more aware that it's affecting children too."
Malisse Kafi, 11, had coronavirus in September and has found it difficult to eat since then because everything tasted "like poo and rotten eggs", his mother said.Story continuesHe lost 2kg and was taken to hospital in November after he became dehydrated and started slurring his words.Malisse still has the disorder, but he has some safe foods that he can eat and is starting to get better.
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