The list of COVID-19 symptoms has grown since the coronavirus pandemic began nearly a year ago.
Yahoo Life reports that the long list of symptoms now includes a disturbingly ”wide range of complications” that can accompany the virus.
The report noted that a loss of smell and taste is one of the most common symptoms among COVID-19 patients - especially those with mild cases.
The time-frame for the return of these senses, ranges from a couple of weeks, to months, and in the worst case scenarios some COVID-19 patients lose their senses of smell and taste permanently, Yahoo Life explained.
Loss of sense of smell and taste are common COVID-19 symptoms.
Yahoo Life cited a Jan. 5 study from the “Journal of Internal Medicine,” which found that of patients with mild cases of COVID-19, 86% “experienced a loss of their sense of taste and smell.” And, while a significant number of these patients’ senses do come back in time, that’s not always the case.
Yahoo Life also cited “The Wall Street Journal,” which reported that doctors say in some cases “people’s senses might never return.”
From Harvard Health’s site, Yahoo Life cited cognitive and neurological expert Leo Newhouse, LICSW, who wrote: “Some of us might never regain our sense of smell or taste at all.”
Most COVID-19 patients’ senses of smell and taste return after six months.
The Yahoo Life report cited an April 6 study published by the “European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology,” which found that long after other symptoms had dissipated, “the majority of patients’ loss of taste and smell lingered.” The study noted that “a quarter of participants’ ability to taste and smell returned within two weeks of their other symptoms disappearing.”
The “Journal of Internal Medicine,” study concluded that after 60 days, 15.3% of patients still had not recovered their senses, and at the 6-month mark, 4.7% of people’s senses hadn’t yet returned.
If senses do come back, they may not come back the same.
The report again cited neurological expert Leo Newhouse who wrote: “The good news is that olfactory neurons are capable of regeneration.” But added, “The bad news is that not everyone will return to his or her pre-COVID level of functioning.”
If your senses are still gone, you shouldn’t lose all hope.
According to Yahoo Life, experts say “there’s a significant chance” that senses will recover within the first year of loss. The report cited Assistant professor Jessica Grayson, MD, who told the University of Alabama at Birmingham that “patients with post-viral smell loss have roughly a 60 to 80 percent chance of regaining some of their smell function at one year.”
Loss of smell and taste can lead to adverse emotions.
Yahoo Life cited a 2016 study published in “Chemical Senses” which found that “patients with olfactory dysfunction have symptoms of depression that worsen with severity of smell loss.”
The report cited “The Wall Street Journal,” which was told by Chemosensory scientist Pamela Dalton, PhD, that when our sense of smell and taste disappear, “we’ve scooped out a whole piece of our consciousness that we didn’t even realize we were using every day.”
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