the sense of smell and taste?
Loss of sense of smell and taste is one of the main symptoms of infection with the emerging corona virus. It is one of the symptoms that lasts even after recovery from Covid-19. German doctors have discovered a treatment that helps restore these two senses.
When the new Corona virus appeared more than a year ago, doctors discovered that most of the infected suffer from a loss of sense of smell and taste, and in many of them these symptoms did not disappear after recovery from the disease.
In fact, the loss of the sense of smell and taste in particular is not a result of infection with the Coronavirus alone, even when having a strong cold, one can face the same thing. However, it differs with the Corona virus.
It is true that most people who lose their sense of smell and taste due to the coronavirus recover them within three to four weeks, but "these cases may last for months between 10 to 15 percent," according to Valentina Parma, a psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia and a member of an international consortium. For researchers formed at the beginning of the pandemic to analyze this problem.
And these disturbances affect at least two million people in the United States and more than ten million in the world, as Parma said today, Monday (March 29, 2021).
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The senses of smell and taste are often seen as being less important than sight or hearing. Although they are essential in social relations, "as our partners are chosen partly on the basis of their scent," doctors often consider that their loss is less dangerous than other consequences of what has become known as "long-term Covid".
Learn to smell and taste again
One of the strongly proposed medical explanations is that this occurs as a result of damage to the olfactory epithelium, as a result of viral infection. The more superficial the damage, the shorter the duration of loss of smell and taste, and vice versa.
At the Medical University of Dresden, the department specializing in the senses of smell and taste, doctors have been searching for ways to help patients restore their senses. And they have come up with a taming process that activates the olfactory epithelium.
The head of the Department of Otolaryngology at the German University, Dr. Thomas Hummel, explains to the medical journal "Farmerswetter Zeitung" the mechanisms of this process, saying: "Patients should, every morning and evening, for thirty seconds, respectively, smell four different types of substances. These training sessions must be continued." "Regularly for at least four months. Sometimes it may last up to nine months."
What do these materials consist of?
On the nature of these materials, Dr. Hummel replies, that it is up to the person himself who can choose it as he wants. But it must emit different perfumes or flavors that make the body feel whether it tingles, stinging or chills, considering essential oils such as rose oil or perfumes made with citrus peel, along with herbs such as cinnamon and thyme, among the best substances that respond to these properties, which give the body the feeling With tingling required.
As for mint and vinegar, they can help the body feel chills and stinging.
A doctor must be consulted
However, the German doctor warns that this method is only suitable for people who suffer for a long time from loss of sense of smell and taste. At the same time, Dr. Hommel from the University of Dresden stresses that this method of treatment must be preceded by a visit to a specialist doctor, whether an ear, nose and throat doctor, or a neurologist.
It is mentioned that the causes of the loss of these two senses are many and complex, and therefore an integrated diagnosis of the situation is necessary.
