Not to be sniffed at: Agony of post-COVID-19 loss of smell
3 years, 10 months ago

Not to be sniffed at: Agony of post-COVID-19 loss of smell

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Not being able to smell bothers me greatly.” A year into the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and researchers are still striving to better understand and treat the accompanying epidemic of COVID-19-related anosmia — loss of smell — draining much of the joy of life from an increasing number of sensorially frustrated longer-term sufferers like Forgione. “They are losing color in their lives,” said Dr. Thomas Hummel, who heads the smell and taste outpatients clinic at University Hospital in Dresden, Germany. “You haven’t completely lost your sense of smell but nor is it good.” He sent her away with some homework: six months of olfactory rehab. “But when you lose the sense of smell, you realize how truly lucky we are to be able to smell these things.” ___ Follow AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic, https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak

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Long Covid sense loss ‘can be cured by sniffing an orange’
1 year, 8 months ago

Long Covid sense loss ‘can be cured by sniffing an orange’

The Telegraph  

Smelling a lemon or orange twice a day may help reverse long Covid sense loss, a study has found. The senses return for most patients within a matter of weeks, but for some people who suffered prolonged illness, smell loss was seemingly permanent. A study from scientists at University College London has found for the first time that people with …

Persistent effects on sense of smell after Covid-19 infection
1 year, 8 months ago

Persistent effects on sense of smell after Covid-19 infection

Hindustan Times  

Pune In a new paper published in March 2023 in the journal, “Current Research in Neurobiology”, Dr Nixon Abraham’s group of researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, in collaboration with researchers from B J Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals Pune, reported on persistent olfactory learning deficits during and after Covid-19 infection. Dr Abraham said, …

Our sense of smell is eroding, and Covid-19 is not to be blamed this time!
1 year, 9 months ago

Our sense of smell is eroding, and Covid-19 is not to be blamed this time!

Live Mint  

Losing sense of smell was a symptom that was considered synonymous with Covid-19. However, a recent report on BBC, shows that not Covid-19, but air pollution is the latest evil to affect people's sense of smell and this is here to stay! Olfactory senses will exist only in biology books and historical narratives as severe air pollution has now started …

Primary cause of smell loss in long Covid-19: Research
2 years ago

Primary cause of smell loss in long Covid-19: Research

Hindustan Times  

According to a team of scientists led by Duke Health report, the reason some people do not recover their sense of smell after Covid-19 is due to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decrease in the number of those cells. Primary cause of smell loss in long Covid-19: Research The finding, publishing online Dec. 21 …

Covid survivors say they experience 'bizarre' tastes and smells months after clearing the infection
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid survivors say they experience 'bizarre' tastes and smells months after clearing the infection

Daily Mail  

After recovering from COVID-19, several survivors say they are experiencing say they either can't smell or are experienced distorted and misplaced odors and tastes. Marcel Kuttab, one patient interviewed by the New York Times, described bizarre smell experiences after she recovered from COVID COVID can cause problems for the olfactory epithelium - a group of nerves that detect scents and …

Months after contracting COVID-19, some will try anything to regain their sense of smell
3 years, 10 months ago

Months after contracting COVID-19, some will try anything to regain their sense of smell

LA Times  

Loss of smell is a common symptom of COVID-19, and about 10% of patients suffer from long-term smell dysfunction, researchers say. “It’s like a completely different experience.” Loss of taste or smell may be the first thing that prompts someone to get tested for a coronavirus infection. Its Facebook group dedicated to COVID-19 smell and taste loss includes posts from …

Loss of smell or anosmia: This Covid-19 symptom drives survivors to get creative in the kitchen
3 years, 11 months ago

Loss of smell or anosmia: This Covid-19 symptom drives survivors to get creative in the kitchen

CNN  

CNN — Emergency physician Dr. Alex Yeats had just whipped up what seemed like an appetizing dinner option when his wife let him know she wasn’t having anything to do with it. Anosmia — a condition known as “smell blindness,” or loss of smell — is a common symptom of Covid-19, and can severely impact people’s ability to taste, since …

Long COVID-19 symptoms: Some survivors are haunted by loss of smell and taste
3 years, 11 months ago

Long COVID-19 symptoms: Some survivors are haunted by loss of smell and taste

Firstpost  

Until March, when everything started tasting like cardboard, Katherine Hansen had such a keen sense of smell that she could recreate almost any restaurant dish at home without the recipe, just by recalling the scents and flavours. “Smell is not something we pay a lot of attention to until it’s gone,” said Pamela Dalton, who studies smell’s link to cognition …

At-home DIY smell tests could catch Covid-19 cases
4 years ago

At-home DIY smell tests could catch Covid-19 cases

CNN  

Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writers. It illustrates perfectly how smell checks could be used as a screening tool for Covid-19 infection. In fact, recent analyses suggest that if you had to pick just one symptom, sudden smell loss may be the single best predictor of a Covid-19 diagnosis. Do it yourself, …

COVID-19 transmission: Smell and taste changes can be better indicators of community spread than ER data
4 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19 transmission: Smell and taste changes can be better indicators of community spread than ER data

Firstpost  

An increase or decrease in new cases is being used for making healthcare policies including physical distancing, mandatory masks and lockdowns A group of researchers at The Pennsylvania State University say that tracking self-reported loss of smell and taste as more effective in assessing community spread than tracking ER visits with suspected infection. Studying all the data, the researchers found …

How Does One Differentiate Between Symptoms of Common Cold and Coronavirus? Here are Some Hints
4 years, 4 months ago

How Does One Differentiate Between Symptoms of Common Cold and Coronavirus? Here are Some Hints

News 18  

Although COVID-19 patients may lose their sense of smell, they can breathe freely, do not tend to have a runny or blocked nose, and cannot detect bitter or sweet tastes, a study published on Wednesday has found. The researchers hope that their work could help develop smell and taste tests for fast COVID-19 screening - in primary care and emergency …

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