Sensory Comeback: New Findings Show the Path to Smell and Taste Recovery After COVID

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November 09, 2023

 

"Good news for people struggling with sensory problems after a bout of COVID-19. Although mild cases of the disease often impair the ability to taste and smell, and the problem can drag on for months, a new study from Italy shows that most people return to their senses, as it were, within 3 years.

 

"In the vast majority of cases, the loss of the sense of smell is not irreversible," said Paolo Boscolo-Rizzo, MD, a professor of medicine, surgery, and health sciences at the University of Trieste, and a co-author of the study, published as a research letter today in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery. 

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A study this past June showed a strong correlation between severity of COVID-19 symptoms and impaired sense of taste and smell, and estimated that millions of Americans maintained altered senses."

 

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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998297?form=fpf

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2811861