English German
    Brand Logo
    • Home
    • The Science
    • Press & News
    • Smell Stories
    • Instructions
    • FAQs
    • Contact Us
    • About Us

    Smell Stories

    ‘COVID’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know’ – by Nature

    By u-Smell-it Comments (0) Tuesday, January 19, 2021
      Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn

    ‘COVID’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know’ – by Nature

    Nature posted about researchers are studying the sensory impact of the coronavirus, how long it lasts and what can be done to treat it. This article explaines how many people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell, the reason people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell, how long they lose the sense of smell and about the treatments for restoring the sense of smell.

    [from the article]

    Researchers are studying the sensory impact of the coronavirus, how long it lasts and what can be done to treat it.

    Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it emerged that many people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus were losing their sense of smell — even without displaying other symptoms. Researchers also discovered that infected people could lose their sense of taste and their ability to detect chemically triggered sensations such as spiciness, called chemesthesis.

    Almost a year later, some still haven’t recovered these senses, and for a proportion of people who have, odours are now warped: unpleasant scents have taken the place of normally delightful ones. Nature surveys the science behind this potentially long-lasting and debilitating phenomenon.

    How many people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell?

    The exact percentage varies between studies, but most suggest that smell loss is a common symptom.

    One review, published last June1, compiled data from 8,438 people with COVID-19, and found that 41% had reported experiencing smell loss. In another study, published in August2, a team led by researcher Shima T. Moein at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences in Tehran, Iran, administered a smell-identification test to 100 people with COVID-19 in which the patients sniffed odours and identified them on a multiple-choice basis. Ninety-six per cent of the participants had some olfactory dysfunction, and 18% had total smell loss (otherwise known as anosmia).

    Read this entire article from Nature

     

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recent Posts
    • U-Smell-It honored in global $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing Competition
    • Smell problems are finally being recognised as serious diseases – by ThePrint
    • Long-term loss of smell could make people feel depressed, how to recover from it
    • Nation Africa featured our smell test – ‘What if there was a less irritating way to test for Covid?’
    • New York Times highligted the benefits of smell test for Covid-19 with a low cost
    Category
    • Press and News
    • Smell Science
    • Smell Stories
    • Uncategorized

    Disclaimer:  The u-Smell-it™ is a FDA registered test to determine if an individual has experienced a change or loss in the ability to smell (hyposmia or anosmia). The u-Smell-it™ test is not intended to screen for, diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition other than to identify for loss of smell. The absence of an abnormal test result does not rule out diseases or other conditions.

    u-Smell-it app
    u-Smell-it app
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • The Science
    • Instructions
    • FAQs
    • Press & News
    • Smell Stories
    • About Us

    Copyright 2020 Usmellit. All Rights Reserved.

    This website uses cookies and asks your personal data to enhance your browsing experience.
    Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um sicherzustellen, dass Sie die beste Erfahrung auf unserer Website erhalten.Ich stimme zur Bearbeitung meiner Anfrage den Datenschutzbedingungen dieser Applikation gemäß DSGVO zu und möchte von u-Smell-it und berechtigten Personen kontaktiert werden.
    I Agree / Bestätigen Privacy Policy / Datenschutzerklärung