Most people experience loss olfactory, because of him coronavirus, finally find her again after a while. Some, however, later show various persistent disorders of this sense, such as parsimony and phantom, that is, they smell distorted odors in relation to the real or completely non-existent ones.
Researchers from several countries, led by Professor Massa Niv of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pre-published the report on medRxiv, according to Reuters, analyzing data from 1,468 patients with coronavirus, most of whom had abnormalities. taste from the beginning of the infection.
Quite quickly, about 10% of patients also reported olfactory distortions (parsimony) or unexplained and imaginary odors (phantom). Six to eight months after the initial infection and the diagnosis of olfactory loss, approximately 60% of women and 48% of men had recovered up to 80% of their olfactory capacity prior to infection.
On the other hand, however, the incidence of parsimony (47%) and phantom (25%) had increased significantly. As one patient put it, “sometimes I can smell something burned, but no one else around me smells anything like it.”
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Such persistent olfactory problems are more common in people with long Covid-19 who have more symptoms, according to the researchers.
Sudden loss of smell and taste are two common early symptoms of Covid-19, occurring in 40% to 75% of cases. They are a problem for physical and mental health, including affecting diet. Studies to date have shown that taste returns faster than smell and that when olfactory disorders persist for a long time, they are not usually accompanied by taste disturbances.
With information from ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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