LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT)- The loss of taste and smell is often one of the first symptoms of COVID-19, and health experts at Mayo Clinic Health System share the importance of the two senses.
Health experts say smell is an often underrated sense.
Many don’t realize how important it is until it doesn’t work normally.
The smell is linked to emotion and memory, alerts us to danger, and works with the sense of taste to give us flavor.
Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse says the pandemic highlighted the sense of smell but many other viruses can cause smell dysfunction.
“It becomes very bothersome, not only because you can’t smell anything, but because food no longer tastes how it’s supposed to,” said Mayo Clinic Health System otorhinolaryngologist, David Valencia.
Because there is no proven treatment available, Mayo Clinic Health System says the best treatment is to protect yourself against COVID-19.
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