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The kovid 19 patients who had no problems with loss of sense of taste and smell actually had a much more severe clinical picture, contrary to popular belief, for which some were on a ventilator. At the same time, four out of five people who reported loss of ability to recognize common odors have positive antibody tests, indicating a mild and therefore unrecognized corona infection.
This was demonstrated by a recent study at the Clinic for Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in New York. And the fact that the loss of the sense of taste and smell occurs more often in lighter patients, our doctors have noticed in practice.
– In practice, it has been shown that people who have problems with smell and taste have clearer clinical pictures. This symptom usually occurs in younger people. The smell problem is more common, because the sense of taste returns faster. We also had young people who, after regaining their sense of taste and smell, had a stench sensation, and there were also patients who could not eat anything because of that. However, that is transitory, but sometimes it takes two or three months for the patient to fully recover, a story from Kurir, Dr. Galina Joković, otolaryngologist at the “Dragiša Mišović” Clinical Hospital, who is in the covid system.
Dr. Jokovic says that the crown enters through the nose and attaches to the fragrant part of the mucous membrane.
– The virus is deposited in the nasal mucosa and begins to multiply. Scientific research has yet to give an official explanation for why the smell is lost. It is possible that the virus has some receptors that bind to that part of the mucosa and destroy that olfactory epithelium. In addition, it is possible that the virus binds to the olfactory nerves and changes their function, explains Dr. Jokovic, who says it is interesting that scientific research has shown, and there have been cases in practice, that lighter patients after of the disease may have problems with memory loss and feeling confused.
On the other hand, prof. Dr. Dušan Milisavljević, director of the ENT clinic in Niš, told Kurir that many viral and bacterial infections can lead to loss of the sense of smell:
– However, some research shows that with the coronavirus, the loss of the sense of smell can last longer. It has also been noted that patients report that, when the sense of taste returns, they do not feel the smell of vanilla, vinegar, perfume … that their milk smells like gasoline … And with the sense of taste that, if they eat peppers spicy, they are eating something sweet. This means that there is a pathological alteration of smell and taste.
New research One in five people will have no symptoms
One in five infected people will have no symptoms, but will transmit the virus to significantly fewer people than one person with symptoms, new studies show.
“The problem is that we have to distinguish those who go through kovid without symptoms from those who are in the first days of infection, so their symptoms have not yet developed,” said Krutika Kupali of Stanford University in California. Studies have shown that asymptomatic people are 42 percent less likely to transmit the virus than symptomatic people.
Goran stevanovic
Loss of odor is the most reliable indicator
Goran Stevanović, director of the KCS Infectious Disease Clinic, recently noted that kovid 19 is a disease that has symptoms similar to many infections, and that loss of smell and taste is one of the most reliable indicators.
– It is a disease that presents symptoms similar to all infections. Aside from the loss of the sense of smell and taste, there are no reliable indicators of the disease, Stevanović said.
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