The doctor named a way to quickly find out if a person is sick with COVID-19

Most of the time, it takes up to three weeks to resume the function reduced by the coronavirus, sometimes up to three months, the specialist said.

When a person stops smelling and tasting, it can indicate that they have contracted the coronavirus. The doctor and television presenter Yevgeny Komarovsky wrote about this on his Telegram channel.

“The What does it smell? Test is much more accurate than any thermometry,” he said.

This happens because the virus, as the doctor explains, infects, relatively speaking, neurons, that is, the nerve cells that perceive taste and smell.

“But not the neurons themselves, but the special cells that sustain their existence. And now these same neuron helpers are inflamed and contain a large amount of an enzyme that opens the way for the virus,” explains the doctor.

Therefore, COVID-19 patients often lose their sense of smell and taste. At the same time, as the doctor emphasizes, there is no cold.

“With the coronavirus, the runny nose is a penny, but there is no sense of smell,” Komarovsky said.

The doctor pointed out that it is possible to lose your sense of smell with the flu, but only because nasal congestion causes inflammation of the mucous membranes and inflammation of odor-sensitive cells.

“With all this, optimism may be caused by the fact that during infection there is irreversible damage to neurons and the sense of smell eventually recovers. But it can take from three weeks to three months. Function is fully restored. “Komarovsky emphasized.

We will remember, the doctor and television presenter Yevgeny Komarovsky believes that the best way to prevent the coronavirus is by playing soccer.

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