Relapsed covid patients who have lost their sense of smell and taste after being infected with the coronavirus may not see their senses return for up to five months.
Anosmia, loss or change of smell and taste, is formally recognized as a sign of coronavirus disease.
Data from the Office for National Statistics show that half of patients with coronavirus experience symptoms with 16 and 17 percent of those experiencing some form of loss of smell and taste, respectively.
Researchers from the University of Quebec studied 813 health care workers who contracted Covid-19.
More than a third (38 percent) of those who lost consciousness did not regain their taste after five months.
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Relapsed covid patients who have lost their sense of smell and taste after being infected with the coronavirus may not see their senses return for up to five months. Anosmia, loss or change of smell and taste, is formally recognized as a sign of coronavirus disease (stock)
Participants in the study completed questionnaires and completed home tests to assess their taste and smell.
These were performed, on average, five months after the ingestion of Covid-19 so the researchers cannot say whether anosmia lasts longer than this, as the data do not yet exist.
‘Although COVID-19 is a new disease, previous research shows that most people lose their smell and taste in the early stages of the disease,’ said the study’s author, and Dr Johannes Frasnelli.
‘We wanted to go further and look at the extent of that loss of smell and taste, and how severe it is in people with COVID-19.’
People graduated the sense of smell and taste on a scale of 0 to 10, with zero meaningless and 10 meaning strong feeling.
The average score for people recovering from Covid was eight, but it was nine for people before they became ill.
Of the 813 participants, 527 lost their taste buds during the initial illness.
Thirty-eight percent (200 people) of these had not regained their taste five months later.
‘Our findings show that sense of smell and taste may persist in a number of people with COVID-19,’ said Dr Frasnelli.
This reinforces the importance of follow – up with infected people, and the need for further research to determine the extent of the brain disorders associated with COVID-19. ‘
The study has not yet been peer-reviewed and will be presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology from April 17 to 22.
Loss of smell and taste was officially recognized as a sign of Covid on May 18, 2020, and since then it has been an integral part of the screening process as the NHS claims to have a fever, cough is the only three signs to tell of the illness. or loss of taste and smell.
Researchers from King’s College London (KCL) have recently asked policymakers to expand this set of well-known indicators.
Researchers from the University of Quebec studied 813 health care workers who contracted Covid-19. More than a third (38 per cent) of those who lost consciousness did not regain their taste after five months (stock)
Adding fat, sore throats, headaches and diarrhea say ‘millions’ of undiagnosed cases could be detected.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty is already under pressure to change the official list of Covid’s symptoms after results from a government-led study, REACT, revealed that thousands of people with the disease going through the cracks because of the narrow direction.
Other less common symptoms such as muscle pain and diarrhea are recognized by the World Health Organization and U.S. officials.
But current Test and Trace rules mean swabs in the UK are reserved only for people with fever, persistent cough or loss of smell or taste.
Professor Tim Spector, lead scientist on the Zoe app and epidemiologist at King’s College London, said: ‘ of progressive cases.
‘We identified anosmia as a symptom back in May and our work prompted the Government to add it to the list; it is now clear that we need to add more.
‘By inviting any users who sign up for any new tokens to be tested, we have proven that there are many more Covid tokens.’
A group of 140 GPs in London embraced this idea and called on health leaders to expand the number of known symptoms.
They say that many patients with milder signs do not even think they may have the virus and are not isolated on their own when they are infected.
The doctors add that they need to encourage patients to lie down to get tested, which is only available to those with all three known symptoms.
Extending the scheme to include runny noses in the depths of winter is likely to put a lot of pressure on the UK Test and Trace system.
Leading scientists have been campaigning to expand the official list for months, following a warning that it will not contract enough diseases in the early stages.