Patients suffer from impaired senses for several weeks or even months after infection. Back on the mechanism involved and recovery.
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Two months after being tested positive for Covid-19, Sandrine still has difficulty smelling odors.
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To eat chocolate without feeling anything sgently, let the pizza burn in the oven without noticing it, walk in a field of flowers without perfume that intoxicates: Sandrine, Genevoise from 61 years old, tested positive at Covid-19 on 23 March and since then, she has only partially recovered her sensory faculties. In Le medical jargon, these alterations are called anosmia and ageusia, loss of smell and taste respectively. They are found in many patients with the new coronavirus. The role of SARS-CoV-2, the Covid-19 virus, is not yet clear, but a study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) suggests a first explanation. Update on the alteration and recovery of these senses.
