NICE, France (AP) – A doctor slides a miniature camera into a patient’s right nostril, his bright miniature light turning the glow of his entire nose red.
“A little tickling, ah?” She asked as she rumored around her nasal passages, discomfort causing tears in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks.
The patient, Gabbella Forgon, did not complain. The 25-year-old pharmacy worker was happy to be rushed to a hospital in Nice, in the south of France, to pursue his increasing pressure to improve his sense of smell. With her sense of taste, she suddenly disappeared when she fell ill with COVID-19 in November, and never returned.
Depriving her of the fun of food and the aroma of those things is proving hard on her body and mind. Fed up with both good and bad smells, F Forg Gion is losing weight and confidence.
“Sometimes I ask myself, ‘Do I stink?'” He confessed. “Usually, I wear perfume and things smell. It bothers me a lot that I can’t smell. “
In a year of coronavirus epidemics, doctors and researchers are still trying to better understand and treat epidemics of covid-19-related anosmia, as well as odor-induced epidemics – the long-term number of sensory depressions is overflowing with the joys of life. Victims like forgotten.
Specialist doctors also say there is still a lot to learn about their condition and that they are learning as they go into their diagnosis and treatment. Weakness and odor changes have become so common in COVID-19 that some researchers suggest Those simple odor tests can be used to track coronavirus infections in countries with few laboratories.
For most people, olfactory problems are temporary, often improving within a week. But a small minority of people complain of persistent inactivity for a long time after other Covid-19 symptoms have disappeared. Some have reported persistent or partial loss of odor after six months of infection. The longest, some doctors say, is now approaching year-round.
Researchers working on waxing disabilities say they are hopeful that most people will eventually recover but fear that some will not. Some doctors are concerned that a growing number of odor-deprived patients, many of them young, may be at risk of depression and other complications and weigh on a stressful health system.
The head of the Odor and Taste Outpatient Clinic at the University Hospital Spital in Dresden, Germany Thomas Hummel said, “They are losing color in their lives.
“These people will survive and they will succeed in their business, in their lives,” Hammel added. “But his life will be very poor.”
At Nice’s Face and Neck University Institute, Dr. Claire Wenderstein pulls the root from her nose with her camera, followed by a scented tube under Forgoin’s nose.
“Do you smell anything?” nothing? Zero? Okay, ”he asked, as she reacted negatively, repeatedly and apologetically.
Only the last tube gave a vague reaction.
“Urgh! Oh, it stinks, ”forget. “Fish!”
Completed the test, Wenderstein delivered his diagnosis.
“You need an abundance of odor to make you smell something,” he told her. “You haven’t completely lost your sense of smell, but it’s not good either.”
He said goodbye to it with homework: six months of olfactory rehabilitation. Twice a day, choose two or three scented items, such as a sprinkle of lavender or scented jars, and let them smell for two to three minutes, he ordered.
“Great if you can smell something. If not, no problem. Try again, lavender, focus hard on painting a beautiful purple bloom, “he said.” You have to keep trying. “
Losing a sense of smell can be more than just an inconvenience. Spreading fires, smoke, or the stench of rotten food can all draw dangerous attention. Dog fumes on used diaper fumes, shoes or sweaty armpits can be embarrassingly ignored.
And as poets have long been known, scents and emotions are often like tempted lovers.
Evan was enjoying the lead meal time. Now they are boring. A fish dinner in September that suddenly felt flavorless gave the 18-year-old sports student the first flag that COVID-19 had attacked his senses. Foods only became textured, with the remaining hints of sweetness and sweetness.
Five months later, having breakfast on chocolate cookies before classes, the lead still chewed without pleasure, as if swallowing a cardboard.
“I have no intention of eating anymore.” “It’s a waste of time.”
Anosemia sufferers studied by researchers at NICE include Cesa, who used scent in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease before the epidemic. They also used a relaxing scent to treat post-traumatic stress in children after a truck terrorist attack in Nice in 2016, when the driver was rioted by a holiday crowd, 86 people were killed.
Researchers are now turning their expertise into COVID-19, in conjunction with perfumes from the nearby fragrance city of Grasse. Perfumer Ode Galloway worked on a scented wax under the lead nose to measure its disgusting flaw, with a variety of scented fragrances.
“The sense of smell is a feeling that is basically forgotten,” Galloway said. “We don’t realize the impact we’ve had on our lives except obviously, when we don’t have it anymore.”
Lead and other patient examinations also include language and attention tests. Nice researchers are exploring whether olfactory complaints are linked to cognitive-related cognitive difficulties, including difficulty concentrating. When “Kayak” was the clear choice on a test, the lead stumbled upon the word “ship”.
“It’s completely unexpected,” said Maggie Payne, the team’s speech therapist. “This young man should not experience language problems.”
“We have to keep digging,” he said. “We find things as soon as we see patients.”
Lead wants to restore her senses, celebrating the run through the taste of pasta in Carbonara sauce, her favorite dish and the great outside fragrant wonders.
“One might think that it is not important to bring the scent of nature, trees, forests.” “But when you lose the sense of smell, you realize how lucky we are to bring the scent of these things.”
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