Komarovsky called an easy way to identify infected with coronavirus

The well-known doctor Yevgeny Komarovsky spoke about the characteristics of the main symptom of the coronavirus – the loss of the sense of taste and smell, and told a simple way to diagnose the disease.

He wrote about this on his website.

The doctor said that with the flu, the smell can also disappear, but for other reasons.

For example, due to edema of the mucosa and edema of cells sensitive to odors. However, with COVID-19, there is virtually no runny nose and the sense of smell is still absent. The reason lies in the fact that the virus infects special cells that support the neurons responsible for the perception of taste and smell.

Therefore, it is this symptom that can be considered diagnostic, that is, the “What does it smell like?” It is much more accurate than any thermometry ”, said the doctor. He proposed to determine the presence of coronavirus in people in the following way: rub a cloth with garlic and ask everyone present with temperature each morning what it smells like. “If you can smell it, thank goodness, banal ARVI, let’s go to study or work, if not, send it home,” Komarovsky wrote.

He also pointed out that with the coronavirus there is no irreversible damage to neurons, so that, sooner or later, taste and smell are recovered. Most of the time, this happens after three weeks, but sometimes the process is delayed by up to three months and the person cannot influence the recovery process.

We will remember, in Kiev registered an anti-registration of new cases of coronavirus.

We also write that, according to the infectious disease specialist, the situation with the coronavirus in Ukraine will not improve before six months.