Anosmia

Anosmia: how Covid brought loss of smell centre stage

This network is one of the most adaptable in the entire central nervous system. To keep functioning, it completely regenerates every six weeks, shedding existing olfactory neurons, and creating new ones from scratch.

Anosmia, the loss of smell caused by COVID-19, doesn’t always go away quickly – but smell training may help

What’s unique about COVID-19 is that it actually is not nasal congestion or that nasal inflammatory response that is causing the smell loss. The virus actually crosses the blood-brain barrier and gets into the nervous system. It affects the nervous system and the neural connections that are necessary to detect odor and interpret it.

Covid: Smell training recommended for lost sense of smell

Researchers are calling for people struggling to regain their sense of smell after falling ill with Covid-19 to undergo "smell training" rather than being treated with steroids.

Learning How To Smell Again After COVID-19

Loss of smell has become one of the defining symptoms of COVID-19. Scientists have ideas why, but aren't sure how to reverse the damage. Some are trying what's called 'olfactory training.'

What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?

The virus’s strangest symptom has opened new doors to understanding our most neglected sense.

You Recovered From COVID-19. Now Your Coffee Smells Like Sewage

The way back from smell loss is its own strange experience.

Altered smell and taste: Anosmia, parosmia and the impact of long Covid-19

Our findings suggest altered taste and smell with Covid-19 may lead to severe disruption to daily living that impacts on psychological well-being, physical health, relationships and sense of self.

Coronavirus might cause loss of smell, or anosmia. But it probably won’t be permanent

While the exact details of what happens with this coronavirus are unclear, evidence from other infections suggests that while damage to the sense of smell is possible, it’s unlikely to be permanent.

COVID killed your sense of smell? Here’s how experts train people to get theirs back

We agreed that the best treatment is smell training and that vitamin A drops may also be a treatment option to consider. We also felt that steroids probably do not have a role in treatment but may help to exclude other problems, such as rhinitis, that are blocking the nose.

COVID-19 Took My Sense of Smell Nearly a Year Ago

Without it, the world is a very different place.

COVID-19, smell and taste – how is COVID-19 different from other respiratory diseases?

When people “taste” food, they are experiencing input from three different sensory systems that are knitted together to form a singular unified sensation. Strictly speaking, taste describes the five qualities we sense on the tongue, including sweet, salty, bitter, sour and savory/umami. Savory, also known as umami, refers to the meatiness of broth, cheese, fish sauce, or a sundried tomato.

Damaged Sense of Smell in Covid Patients Holds Clues to How Recovery Might Work

Researchers study neurological reasons why some coronavirus patients often find familiar scents repulsive.

How COVID-19 Causes Loss of Smell

Olfactory support cells, not neurons, are vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection.

Loss of smell in patients with COVID-19

The debate is still ongoing as to what extent the loss of smell in SARS-CoV2 infection is caused by congestion in the OC and/or direct damage to the olfactory sensory neurons, causing structural changes in the OB and pathways.

Many COVID-19 Survivors Still Can't Smell or Taste

There aren't many treatments available, but some are in development.

Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste

As the coronavirus claims more victims, a once-rare diagnosis is receiving new attention from scientists, who fear it may affect nutrition and mental health.

The Bizarre Long COVID Symptom That Makes Your Favourite Food Smell Like Trash

Many people lose their sense of smell after contracting COVID-19. For most, it comes back fine. For others, not so much.

The loss of taste and smell are possible symptoms of Covid-19

People around the world are reporting the temporary loss of their senses of taste and smell as doctors fight against the spread of Covid-19.

What Covid-19-related loss of smell reveals about how the mind works

Anosmia, the technical term for the once relatively unfamiliar loss of one’s ability to smell, is now all too common. It has become a critical diagnostic marker of Covid-19.

When Covid-19 Stole Their Smell, These Experts Lost Much More

French perfumers, sommeliers and winemakers with coronavirus infections are sometimes deprived of a crucial tool: their high-performing noses.

Will My Sense Of Smell Ever Return? Olfactory Insights From COVID And Beyond

— what does it really mean to have a disordered sense of smell? Does it matter that with my eyes closed I can't tell if I'm in an overripe gym or a perfume store? And is there hope that I'll ever again be able to smell a wet dog or freesia or a gas leak or a raw onion? I went searching for answers.

The World in My Nose

After COVID stole my ability to smell, I found a solution that reawakened my senses—and much more.

AbScent

AbScent is a UK charity founded by Chrissi Kelly, inspired by her personal journey of recovery from smell loss. Chrissi suffered anosmia following a virus in 2012. Isolated by her experience and shocked by the lack of information and support, Chrissi sought out answers and is determined that no-one should suffer as she had. Today, AbScent is driving change to end smell disorders.

Covid-19 Patients Who Experience Loss Of Smell Could Take Up To One Year To Recover: Study

... a group of researchers based in France and Canada delved into how long Covid-19 patients with loss of the sense of smell take to recover since initial infection. After following up with 97 patients for a year, they found that 96.1 percent of them recovered their sense of smell within 12 months.