Toronto Canada.
Loss of sense of smell and taste can last until Five months later from covid19 contamination, according to a preliminary study released Monday.
The final results of the work will be presented at the American Academy of Annual Meeting in April Neurology.
Johannes Frasnelli, from the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada and one of the authors of this study, recalls that although the COVID-19 is a new disease, Previous research had already shown that many of the infected people lose the feeling of smell and taste in the first stages of it.
According to the scientist in a press release from the American Academy of Neurology, the purpose of this new work was to go ahead and observe how long it lasts. loss of smell and taste, and how is grave.
To this end, 813 health workers participated in the study positive on the covid-19 testEach person filled out a questionnaire and then took a home test on them sense of taste and smell on average five months after diagnosis.
Patients assessed their senses taste and smellor on a scale of 0 to 10: 0 meant they made no sense and 10 meant a strong sense of taste or from odor.
In total 580 people lost the sense of smell during the first illness. Of this group, 297 participants (51%) said they were still doing itthey had not recovered the sense of smell Five months later.
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On average, people rated your sense of smell baby youn 7 out of 10 after that from disease, compared to a 9 out of 10 before getting sick.
In total 527 participants lost the sense of taste during the first illness; of this group, 200 people (38%) athey assured they had not yet regained their taste Five months later. People rated their taste on average a 8 out of 10 after that of the disease, compared to youn 9 out of 10 before they get sick.
“Our results show that a sense of smell and decreased taste may persist in some people with diabetes COVID-19″, detalla Frasnelli.E.FE