For Bella Davis, becoming a teen mom left her feeling judged, but it wasn’t just the world’s perspective of her that left her struggling.
The 17-year-old had developed a little-understood, but surprisingly common condition that severely distorts a person’s senses, causing everything she ate to smell and taste rotten.
Diagnosed in 2022 with parosmia, the condition left the Utah native, now 21, refusing most foods as she said they tasted like ‘dead people.’
The parosmia, which is estimated to affect more than 3 million Americans, not only produced foul smells and tastes, but it distorted them as well, making cigarettes smell like rotten peanut
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