What happens to your taste and smell after a head injury?

What happens to your taste and smell after a head injury?

Losing your taste and smell after a head injury or concussion can be a serious problem. One patient had such severe distortions of taste and smell that he could no longer eat solid food and had to be fed through a g-tube. While you most likely will experience nothing that extreme, losing these senses can decrease your appetite.

Why do I have a bad smell and no taste?

Some polyps result from allergies, but they can have other causes that may need a specialist’s help to determine. Other symptoms of nasal polyps are congestion, nasal discharge, sneezing, headaches, and snoring. In rare cases, brain tumors can have similar effects on smell and taste.

Can a person still smell after a brain injury?

Ever since her fall, she can no longer taste or smell anything. Her hands and feet are always freezing cold. Will her taste or smell ever come back, and why she is so cold all the time? Loss of taste and smell has been reported to be as high as 25 percent after traumatic brain injury. The loss of taste is generally due to loss of smell.

What causes loss of smell in the brain?

Loss of smell has many possible causes including injury to the nose, nasal passages, sinuses, olfactory nerve, and the brain. The olfactory nerve brings the sensation of smell from your nose to the brain. Since this nerve passes from the nose to the brain, it is at high risk of injury when there is trauma to the head.

Losing your taste and smell after a head injury or concussion can be a serious problem. One patient had such severe distortions of taste and smell that he could no longer eat solid food and had to be fed through a g-tube. While you most likely will experience nothing that extreme, losing these senses can decrease your appetite.

How does a bump on the head knock out my sense of taste?

Forty per cent of these cases are caused by sinus and nasal problems (most commonly, sinusitis, but nasal polyps can also affect smell). A further 30 per cent of cases are triggered by head injuries.

Ever since her fall, she can no longer taste or smell anything. Her hands and feet are always freezing cold. Will her taste or smell ever come back, and why she is so cold all the time? Loss of taste and smell has been reported to be as high as 25 percent after traumatic brain injury. The loss of taste is generally due to loss of smell.

What causes loss of smell and taste in the brain?

Other causes may be injury to the nerve that carries smell sensation from the nose to the brain (olfactory nerve, diagram B) or harm to parts of the brain that process smell (diagram C). Other possible causes are infections, toxins, and medicines. Smell and taste are part of an overlapping sensory system.