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Still struggling with your sense of smell after a bout with Covid-19? You’re far from alone.
Losing your sense of smell or taste is one of the clearest signs that a person has contracted the coronavirus. Earlier in the pandemic, many cases abroad in Italy, China, and South Korea involved ...
Scientists are piecing together why some people lose their sense of smell after contracting Covid-19.
A June 2020 systematic review found a 29–54% prevalence of olfactory dysfunction for people with COVID-19, [59] while an August 2020 study using a smell-identification test reported that 96% of people with COVID-19 had some olfactory dysfunction, and 18% had total smell loss. [60]
A large study showed that post COVID-19, [30] people had increased risk of several neurologic sequelae including headache, memory problems, smell problems and stroke; the risk was evident even among people whose acute disease was not severe enough to necessitate hospitalization; the risk was higher among hospitalized, and highest among those ...
Chemosensory disturbances, including loss of smell or taste, are the predominant neurological symptom of COVID-19. [25] [26] As many as 80% of COVID-19 patients exhibit some change in chemesthesis, including smell. Loss of smell has also been found to be more predictive of COVID-19 than all other symptoms, including fever, cough, or fatigue ...
The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient’s right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light. The 25-year-old pharmacy worker was happy to be prodded and ...
Long COVID or long-haul COVID is a group of health problems persisting or developing after an initial period of COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can last weeks, months or years and are often debilitating. [3]