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Covid-19: anosmia, a symptom that can last

2020-09-28T15:39:08.783Z


DECRYPTION - A phenomenon difficult to quantify and poorly understood, the loss of smell can persist for more than two months. With a heavy impact on the quality of life.


At the start of the Covid epidemic, the loss of smell, or anosmia, was eclipsed by respiratory symptoms.

But today, there is no longer any doubt: partially or totally losing your sense of smell is a specific clinical sign of Covid-19 infection.

Anosmia which, in some patients, still has not disappeared weeks after their infection.

“In April, I was infected with the coronavirus.

I did a mild form: fever, body aches, headache and more smell without having a stuffy nose.

But since then, I feel absolutely nothing, ”

says François.

Read also:

Covid-19: why the virus deprives some patients of their sense of smell

How many have lost their sense of smell?

Difficult to answer.

Indeed, as explained by Dr Camille Hervé, ENT at the Rothschild Foundation in Paris,

“since we do not know the prevalence of Covid-19

(the number of cases in the population, Editor's note),

it is impossible to know the anosmia rate ”

.

An analysis of the scientific literature reveals very variable data from one region of the world

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Source: lefigaro

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