Aromatherapy Tabs Help With COVID Loss of Smell

The following is an excerpt from an article in Woman’s World magazine published July 6, 2022

It had been a year since Lynn Gilbert had been able to enjoy a meal or the scent of flowers. She suffered from long COVID, or long-term effects after a COVID-19 infection. Worried those joys were gone forever, she was thrilled to discover an easy fix … right under her nose!

Lynn Gilbert’s Long COVID Story

“Let me know if this tastes okay,” Lynn Gilbert told her daughter as she placed dinner on the table. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota, 63-year-old had lost her sense of taste and smell when she contracted COVID-19 last summer, and never regained them once she’d recovered. She no longer enjoyed her favorite foods, had trouble cooking for her family, and was also left with a constant metallic taste in her mouth.

With her doctor unable to help, Lynn searched online and tried all kinds of suggestions — from drinking homemade elixirs to eating lots of garlic. But nothing had worked. Then, a few months ago, Lynn attended a tennis competition and met Mark Theno, the founder of Bioesse (our Breatherapy parent company), a company that produces essential oil inhalation patches.

Inhaling essential oils had been one of the remedies Lynn had tried. She’d had high hopes because the potent oils are commonly used in olfactory retraining — a therapy to help rebuild the connection between the nose and the brain to recover the sense of smell after infections or nasal surgery.

Lynn had learned that just like exercising a muscle, practicing smelling can strengthen the olfactory system, and she tried inhaling the oils three times a day. But she hadn’t experienced much of a change. Mark explained that he had aromatherapy patches that may help. He had some hemp-ginger and peppermint patches with him, and he offered them to Lynn. Why not try it? she reasoned.

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Our Breatherapy patch in the Soothe blend of essential oils is an excellent and similar replacement to the Hemp Ginger-Peppermint patch, and may help reinvigorate the ability to smell + taste.

To learn about how Lynn regained her sense of smell using aromatherapy patches, read the full article here.