08/19/2021
Such great info if you’ve lost your sense of smell and taste. Thank you Melissa Dunbar for sharing!!
I wish I would known this when I lost my taste smell last November. I did take big sniffs of peppermint (it was mind blowing to me that I couldn't smell it at all) and I got my sense back less than a week after I lost it. Had a feeling the oils had a hand in helping....
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From a fellow YL Member:
Smell Training.
A little over a year ago I had a severe adverse reaction and lost my sense of smell.
For someone like me that’s a VERY serious loss. It impacted my taste(pretty much zero) and honestly made me severely depressed for about a week.
I had no idea how impactful sensory loss was. Long story short I did this training and it WORKED for me! Definitely helped that I had all the supplies at my disposal 🤗😉.
👉🏻Loss of taste and smell is a current hot topic for many people I know right now so wanted to share what I did.
How to try smell training at home
You will need:
four essential oils – rose, lemon, clove and eucalyptus.
You can sub the rose for another floral like Joy or geranium but has to be a full blown floral aroma.
These are specifically chosen bc they hit all the anosmia buttons.
The precise choice of oils represents 4 distinctly different categories.
eucalyptus = woodsy
lemon = citrus
clove = spicy
rose = floral
a supply of cotton wool pads (or perfume-testing strips, if you can get hold of some)
1. Start with one oil – it doesn’t matter which – and put a few drops on the pad.
2. Let the aroma develop for a couple of minutes, then bring the pad to within an inch of your nose and breathe naturally through your nose. Don’t try too hard and inhale sharply – if you do, you’re unlikely to smell anything.
3. Move the pad away, then bring it back up to your nose and inhale again. Do this several times with the same oil.
4. Then take a break for five minutes before repeating the process with the next essential oil.
5. Aim to do the training twice a day, in the morning and evening.
Don’t be discouraged if you can’t smell anything at first. Anecdotal evidence from anosmia sufferers who’ve tried the technique suggests that it may take at least a week before you get a hint of any fragrance.
For best results, researchers recommend that you follow the smell training for six months.
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