January 29, 2021 8.25am EST Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the effects of long-term smell loss. Her research has focused on smell loss in people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, but since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she has also studied smell loss caused by COVID-19. In this interview, she talks about...
Tag: <span>Anosmia</span>
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Anosmia, the loss of smell caused by COVID-19, doesn’t always go away quickly – but smell training may help
Author Julie Walsh-Messinger, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Dayton Disclosure statement Julie Walsh-Messinger does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the...
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Mysteries of COVID Smell Loss Finally Yield Some Answers
Explanations begin to arise at the molecular level for this vexing but commonplace symptom By Stephani Sutherland on November 18, 2020 Credit: Alamy It dawned on Eian Kantor on a Saturday in early April as he brewed a cup of tea from fresh mint leaves: he had lost his sense of smell. The tea suspiciously smelled of nothing at...
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Researchers discovered good news about the most puzzling coronavirus symptom
Researchers from Europe think one of the most puzzling coronavirus symptoms might have an unexpected silver lining. The sudden loss of smell and taste is associated with a better COVID-19 prognosis, doctors from France and Belgium concluded. The scientists studied hundreds of COVID-19 patients, separating them into four groups depending on the severity of the illness. They said...
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Why does coronavirus make people lose their sense of smell?
To begin with, it was just anecdotal reports. Ear, nose and throat specialists from around the world were sharing their experiences on online message boards – they were all seeing a spike in patients experiencing anosmia, a loss of smell. The link with coronavirus was brought to public attention by specialists in the UK in...
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Fever checks are a flawed way to flag Covid-19 cases. Experts say smell tests might help
By SHARON BEGLEY @sxbegleJULY 2, 2020 Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing it when governors let them serve customers again: Use temperature checks — almost always with “non-contact infrared thermometers” — to identify people who might have, and therefore spread, the...
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What it’s like to live without a sense of smell
by University of East Anglia The smell of cut grass, freshly baked bread, childhood memories, lost loved ones, Christmas. What happens when it’s all gone? A new study from the University of East Anglia reveals the huge range of emotional and practical impacts caused by a loss of smell. It finds that almost every aspect...
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How to treat anosmia
Tony Francis from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, has long suffered with anosmia It began thirty years ago when he collapsed and hit his head in a freak accident The condition is the inability to perceive odor or a lack of functioning olfaction But a new treatment could – quite literally – bring people to their (lost) senses By TONY...