Recovering from the Flu - Any Tips to Regaining Taste?

[jeff540]

Had the flu pretty hard last week, and I'm mostly better other than congestion crud and awful taste/smell alteration that hasn't gotten better. My only taste buds that work are sour/bitter. No sweet, salty, or umami at all. Coffee tastes like canned green beans that were burned on the stove, and the pipe tastes and smells like printer paper burning. Fresh fruit and vegetables tastes like pond water. I haven't dared to try beer

Any tips or suggestions for recovering my taste/smell sooner? This is getting awfully tiresome.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Just put the pipe down till you're totally over this. It's just a waste trying to smoke while at this point in your recovery... godspeed to you.

 

[scloyd]

I agree with Cosmic. Just wait until your all better. I recently didn't smoke for almost 8 weeks due to an illness. Why waste the tobacco?
Feel better soon.

 

[Sonorisis]

Cayenne Pepper

 

[sablebrush52]

Put your pipes and blends away until you're over this. There is a particularly nasty flu going around that ends with a bout of bronchitis, approximately 3 to 4 weeks of joy in toto. With a little premature smoking you might be able to lengthen that to 5 to 7 weeks.

 

[troyniss]

Get to 100% first. Smoking will only delay the your own body from recuperating to a normal state. Only time and rest will give you the fortune you seek. If you already have admitted your buds aren't working like they should, than in my book, smoking those few bowls is beating a dead horse.

 

[jeff540]

Thanks for the replies. I was feeling much better yesterday, so I decided to try last night, but I couldn't get past a charring light.

Been doing everything I know to speed recovery, just getting impatient (especially for the coffee).

 

[hauntedmyst]

Gargle beet juice with a teaspoon of garlic 3X a day. It's an old hungarian remedy.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Gargle beet juice

I think my wife would lose her mind if she saw me in the sink gargling that. It would look like a vampire throwing up. Ha ha

 

[mso489]

Don't screw with the flu. Otherwise it will hang on. Get your taste back, then smoke your pipe.

 

[Casual]

Gargle beet juice with a teaspoon of garlic 3X a day. It's an old hungarian remedy.

That sure sounds like a remedy that would only work on old Hungarians.

 

[cigrmaster]

Get a bottle of saline nose spray and flush your nose every hour and watch how fast you feel better..

 

[karam]

Get a bottle of saline nose spray and flush your nose every hour and watch how fast you feel better..

Second that, but it won't make taste come back. I am just getting out of a week-long cold, couldn't taste anything. I tried to smoke a couple of times but I ended up dumping the bowl, wasting good tobacco.

 

[jeff540]

Get a bottle of saline nose spray and flush your nose every hour and watch how fast you feel better..

Yes, I do use the Neti pot quite religiously. Thanks for the advice!

BTW, taste is about 75% back now.

 

[Dissident_Mantis]

same issue here, ever since i got back from China i have been feeling a little under the weather. Anyway, time to go to work at Subway.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

Some years back, a non-smoking guy I used to know who was an Army Reservist, had some trouble with losing his sense of taste. It began when his unit did their 2-weeks at a Canadian base, practicing firing their 155mm artillery. They have no idea if they were exposed to anything. None of them got sick or anything like that.

Last time I heard from him, he still didn't have any sense of taste.

 

[Thepipehunter]

When you do start back to smoking, try smoking some easy on the palate, like blends with Burley. I think it is good to ease into it.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

When you do start back to smoking, try smoking some easy on the palate, like blends with Burley. I think it is good to ease into it.

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