Two different friends have said that following COVID, they are really sensitive to salt - everything tastes salty with only a little there. Anybody else hear of this?

Sorry I can't add anything to this but it is puzzling.

It's really interesting given all the interesting and strange things covid causes or has associated with it and it seems new things come up all the time. Right now Covid is understandably under a microscope and we become aware of a lot of things that probably come up with other viruses but given we are not hyper focused on them, the side effect isn't common knowledge like it becomes with Covid. Seriously, it makes me curious to find out what issues arise with common colds and the flu. I am willing to go out on a limb and say that there are a lot of similar strange presentations with other viruses we never hear about.

To my knowledge I have not had Covid. However I did have something respiratory 3 weeks ago, but tested negative. But since then, I've notived lots of food taste overly salty that usually don't. It's been weird. So now I'll be watching this thread.

There have been comments about this same occurrence in other threads here on this board.

My mom said the same thing when she got covid in December. Salty foods were amplified for her.

When we were in quarantine, a friend brought us some BB sandwiches. They were most excellent as usual but I could only eat half of mine. After being in the fridge for a day, I ate the other half for lunch. It tasted like I had doused it with salt and I couldn't eat it all.
However, when I added salt to other food occasionally to see if I could detect it, I could not at all. That lasted about 3 months.

After losing taste and smell, salt was the first thing to "come back" after Covid. Like I could eat a potato chip, that didn't taste like a potato chip, but it was salty. It wasn't so much like it tasted overly salty, more like all you could taste was the salt. Spouse was the same way.

Sweet Kitten Feet said:

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To my knowledge I have not had Covid. However I did have something respiratory 3 weeks ago, but tested negative. But since then, I've notived lots of food taste overly salty that usually don't. It's been weird. So now I'll be watching this thread.

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I could pretty much copy and paste this for me too. Something respiratory like bronchitis 3 weeks ago but several negative tests. Yet now noticing the salty food thing on stuff that never registered before.

Sweets were muted by about 80%

Salt was about 10x

Yes, I've experienced the same. Not radically different, but definitely taste salt more now 2 weeks past recovering.

No other changes to taste / smell. Really only dipped slightly one day while sick and never really lost either sense.

Definitely happened to me. I love salt, but recently I could barely eat things that my wife said weren't salty to her. Usually it's the other way around.

4 of us had covid, all 4 didn't completely lose taste but did somewhat. Everything was salty, I think as someone said salt maybe came back first.

This happened to my brother during COVID- which actually led to his main issue of dehydration - water tasted like "sea water"

I can vouch that the covid made food taste extra salty

Add me to the list. Had some salt and vinegar chips from schlotzskys that I usually love. Holy moly almost knocked me over.

1 week past covid. Very sensitive to salt.

Not sure that I had COVID. Have not been sick and have not been tested, but I have been extremely sensitive to salt the last few days.

For me, my smell of "oily" foods was changed and amplified. The grease has a very unique smell and taste now. Still demolish whataburger and caines though.

I noticed the salt thing in a major way. Had lost most appetite but at one point tried to eat a sandwich. I thought that someone had dumped an entire shaker of salt in it.

I was the opposite. I wanted to add tablespoons of salt to everything. I already like things salty so I had to be careful not to go overboard. It has been over a year, and I think it is finally back to what it was pre-covid.