Toronto, Canada.
Loss of consciousness smell and taste can last up to Five months later from covid19 infection, according to a preliminary study released Monday.
The final results of the paper will be presented in April at the annual meeting of the American Academy in Neurology.
Johannes Frasnelli, of the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (Canada) and one of the authors of this study, recalls that although covid-19 is a new disease, Previous research has already found that many of the infected people loses the meaning of smell and taste in the first its stages.
According to the scientist in a press release of the American Academy of Neurology, the goal of this new work was to go further and observe how long this persists. loss of smell and taste, and how it is grave.
To this end, 813 health workers participated in the research, offering positive on test covid-19; each person completed a questionnaire and then took a home test to assess 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 means they make no sense and 10 means a strong sense of taste or by smell.
A total of 580 people lost sense of smell during initial disease. Of this group, 297 participants (51%) said they still havethey had not recovered sense of smell Five months later.
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On average, people rated sense of smell your girlfriendn 7 out of 10 after from disease, compared to a 9 out of 10 before getting sick.
A total of 527 participants lost sense of taste during the initial illness; from this group, 200 people (38%) athey assured that they had not yet regained their sense of taste Five months later. On average, people appreciated their sense of taste as being 8 out of 10 after of the disease compared to un 9 out of 10 before getting sick.
“Our results show that a sense of smell and the affected taste may persist in a number of people with covid19 “, details Frasnelli.EFE