Toronto, Canada.
The loss of the meaning of olfato y del gusto you can last five months later of the covid-19 infection, following a preliminary study dado to know this moon.
The final results of the work will be presented in April at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Johannes Frasnelli, of the University of Quebec in the Three Rivers (Canada) and one of the authors of this study, noted that, although the covid-19 is a enfermedad nueva, previous investigations have found that many of them contagious people pierden el sentido del olfato y del gusto in the first stages of the mist.
Explaining the scientific in a press release from the American Academy of Neurology, the objective of this new work is to go further and observe how persistent this time loss of olfato and taste, and it is from grave.
For this, in the participatory investigation 813 sanitary workers that animal positive in the covid-19 test; each person completing a questionnaire and making a sample check to evaluate it taste of taste and olfato in promedio five months after the diagnosis.
The patients calibrate their sentences gusto y del olfaton a scale from 0 to 10: the 0 means that no tenin is sent and the 10 means a strong sense of taste o del olfato.
The total of 580 people perdieron el olfato sense during the infermedad inicial. In this group, 297 participants (51%) dijeron que todaví‘n geen habían recuperado el sentido del olfato five months later.
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From the media, the people who qualify on the side of the olfato with youn 7 over 10 after of the enfermedad, in comparison with a 9 sobre 10 antes de enfermar.
A total of 527 participants perdieron el taste of taste during initial illness; of this group, 200 people (38%) aensure that todavía no habían recuperado el sentido del gusto five months later. In the media, people like to rate their taste buds with a 8 over 10 after of the enfermedad, in comparison with un 9 sobre 10 antes de enfermar.
“Our results show that one olfato sense and the gusto deteriorado can persist in a number of persons with covid19 “, details Frasnelli.EFE