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Covid: if you have lost your taste and smell, this rehabilitation kit created in Yvelines can help you

2021-06-08T23:03:43.660Z


To help the "long Covid" to reconnect with their former life, the company Sentosphere, based in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, has put in the po


No longer smelling the flowers in your garden, the scent of others or recognizing the dish you are eating.

The loss of smell and taste, a symptom of Covid, can persist for several months in some people.

According to a study by Inserm, published in early May, 60% of hospitalized Covid-19 patients present at least one symptom after six months.

Fortunately, anosmia, the loss of smell, is not definitive.

Like someone who has had an accident, you need to re-educate yourself to try to regain your abilities.

To help these "long Covid" to reconnect with their former life, Véronique Debroise has developed the Olfatest, an olfactory rehabilitation device.

This set offers sixteen daily odor capsules and eight flavors to assess olfactory sensitivity related to taste.

“95% of taste sensations are linked to smell, if you stop your nose while eating, you no longer smell anything,” explains the founder of the Sentosphere company, based in Saint-Arnoult.

Familiar smells and flavors to stimulate memory

Eucalyptus, lavender, banana or even wood fire, "the idea was to bring together familiar smells and flavors".

Specializing in olfactory education products for over thirty years, the company has notably developed a famous game for children, the odor lottery.

With sixteen smells and eight scents, the box contains a table for recording results and monitoring changes in perceptions over several weeks.

LP / JC Jeanne Cassard

“Our lottery was already recommended by doctors, especially ENTs, for relearning to smell after a trauma,” she continues.

In November, in the middle of the second wave of the epidemic, she designed this new test.

The principle is simple, you have to smell the capsules every day for a few seconds: curry, mint, rose ... "It allows you to know which smells are no longer perceived, which ones are distorted compared to your memory and which ones you perceive correctly. .

To help the patient, each scent is represented by a picture.

On the flavor side, there are also lozenges to stimulate the taste.

Read also Covid-19: our advice to help you regain your sense of smell

“According to people, taste and smell reappear at a different rate, in some, the taste does not come back completely, we then speak of hyposmia, a drop in smell.

They no longer perceive smells in the same way and confuse them.

A good idea according to doctors from Yvelines

The box contains a table to record your results and follow the evolution of perceptions over several weeks.

A detailed leaflet also explains how the sense of smell and the olfactory mucosa work.

Intended for the general public but also for doctors, the Olfatest is on sale on the Sentosphere website for 20 euros.

A very interesting idea for Doctor Moussaoui, general practitioner in Meulan. Among his patients who contracted Covid, some took several months to regain their taste and smell. To help them, he recommends several tips: “For the sweet side, I suggest that my patients go to a chocolate factory so that they can smell the smell of cocoa. On the salty side, he advises them to cook a dish without salt or aromatics, taste it and add salt and pepper as they go. “It's the same logic as Olfatest, you have to train yourself to smell as many smells as possible. "

An opinion shared by Laurie Dampeyrou, psychomotor therapist also based in Meulan.

“Rehabilitation through play reactivates olfactory memory.

For example, we can rediscover the taste of bananas by appealing to a memory, there is the sensory side but also the emotional aspect.

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While people with anosmia are more likely to become depressed than others, olfactory rehabilitation is a real issue.

“When we are depressed, we console ourselves by eating what makes us happy,” points out the specialist.

If you no longer feel anything, eating becomes mechanical, you lose your bearings and this can lead to depression.

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Source: leparis

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