While researchers continue to study lasting, long-term effects after the infection of the new coronavirus, new reports repeat the so-called ‘long-term carriers’ who experience a distorted sense of smell, which captures strange, unpleasant greasy, sulfurous and odors.
Professor Nirmal Kumar, consultant of the OOE surgeon and president of ENT UK, attributed the skewed sense of smell to parosmia, calling it ‘very strange and unique’, according to a Sky News report. According to the National Institutes of Health, parosmia indicates a changed ‘perception of odors’, ‘or when something that smells normal now smells nasty.’
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Although there have been reports of coronavirus elongated odors earlier this year, parosmia should not yet make it onto the CDC list of coronavirus-related symptoms, although the agency notes that the list “does not contain all the information. Possible symptoms.”
“CDC will continue to update this list as we learn more about COVID-19,” reads the agency’s website. One expert has previously elaborated on sense of smell in the context of viral pathogens for Fox News.
While researchers continue to study lasting, long-term effects after the new coronavirus infection, new reports repeat the so-called “long-term carriers” who experience a distorted sense of smell, which gets strange, unpleasant fishy, sulfur and burning odors.
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“There are two sensory systems in our nose. We can detect pleasant odors through the olfactory nerve, while dangerous, toxic odors are detected by the trigeminal nerve,” said Dr. Susan Shin, an assistant professor of neurology at Mount Sinai. Hospital, told Fox News earlier. “The trigeminal nerve is probably more resilient to the effects of a viral pathogen compared to the olfactory nerve because we need it to detect dangers in our environment, such as smelling smoke from a fire.”
According to Kumar, thousands of patients in the UK are being treated for odor loss, anosmia, and some are now experiencing the largely unpleasant odors associated with parosmia. The professor explained the distorted smell of the patients due to ‘odor hallucinations’.
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Earlier this spring, Kumar and ENT UK reported a growing number of patients experiencing a “sudden, unexplained loss of sense of smell” in clinics. Kumar says the organization was among the first to suggest that the odor loss to patients was due to coronavirus infection.
“This virus has an affinity for the nerves in the head and in particular the nerve that controls the sense of smell,” the professor said. “But it probably affects other nerves as well and it affects, according to us, neurotransmitters – the mechanisms that send messages to the brain.”
“What this means is that the virus affects the nerves in the roof of the nose – it’s like a shock to your nervous system and the nerves are not functioning,” Kumar added in another report.
While one 24-year-old patient in the UK, Daniel Saveski, reported a “burning, sulfurous odor” since he briefly lost his sense of smell for two weeks, another patient in her mid-50s described the phenomenon as’ disgusting ‘and spoke of a’ sickly sweet smell ‘.
“Most things smelled disgusting, this sick sweet smell that’s hard to describe since I’ve never encountered it before,” Lelse Corbett of Selsey in England told Sky News.
Chrissi Kelly, a board member of AbScent, a UK charity that supports odor disorders, advised those affected to avoid foods that cause unpleasant odors, eat room temperature or cold food to relieve rising odors and to opt for simple , bland foods like rice. and pasta in the meantime.
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Separate research at the end of October from King’s College in the UK analyzed the symptoms of 4,182 coronavirus patients who recorded their disease using a COVID symptom study app. They noted 558 of the patients saw symptoms last longer than 28 days, while 189 suffered longer than eight weeks, and 95 patients with symptoms reported lasting longer than 12 weeks.
The researchers found that symptoms mostly occur under fatigue, headaches, shortness of breath and anosmia, and that they are more likely to occur in older patients, those with a higher BMI and in patients who are female. According to the most recent reports, the distorted odor, or parosmia, can affect younger patients and medical workers to a greater extent.
Fox News’ Alexandria Hein and Amy McGorry contributed to this report.