Some five per cent of global COVID-19 survivors have now developed long-lasting taste and smell problems, according to a 2022 study. More than two years into the pandemic, researchers found an estimated 15 million people may still have problems perceiving odours, while 12 million may struggle with taste.
Smell or olfactory training encourages people to sniff essential oils twice a day, said rhinologist Dr. Zara Patel, a professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Anyone still struggling with a loss of smell and taste "should think positively and assume their sense of smell will return," Turner said. "Yes, there are some people that won't recover, so for those folks, we want them to not ignore it. We want them to take it seriously." So can head trauma, exposure to noxious chemicals, cancer treatments, smoking, gum disease, antibiotics and various blood pressure, cholesterol, reflux and allergy medications,Growing old is a major cause of smell loss as the ability of the olfactory neurons to regenerate declines. A
of 267 people who lost smell and taste at least two years ago found the majority either fully or partially recovered their ability to smell and taste. That was especially true for people under 40, according to the study.had not recovered their sense of smell and taste two years after their COVID-19 infection cleared.
"That's one of the reasons we sometimes see a delayed effect: People may have some smell loss that recovers, then later they have a second wave of smell loss, parosmia or other symptoms because that regenerative capacity is malfunctioning," he said."Unfortunately, there's these classic categories of really terrible smells and tastes," she said. "Sometimes it's feces, garbage or old dirty socks.
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