How to Care: Eating & Nutrition

Medical conditions that affect the senses of taste or smell

  • Lipid-lowering drugs
  • Antimicrobials
  • Antineoplastics
  • Anti-inflammatory drugs
  • Bronchodilators and other asthma medications
  • Antihypertensives and cardiac medications
  • Muscle relaxants and drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease
  • Antidepressants and anticonvulsant
  • Radiation therapy
  • Vasodilators

Source: "Taste and Smell Losses in Normal Aging and Disease," Susan S. Schiffman, Ph.D. JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, October 22/29, 1997,Vol 278, No. 16.