After getting COVID-19, food smells like garbage to these teen Quebec siblings. Here’s why
But what’s still a niche – but burgeoning – area of interest is studying olfactory issues in pediatric-age patients.out of Spain did not focus on parosmia specifically, but 15 per cent of the 33 children infected with COVID-19 referred to anosmia and/or dysgeusia on a questionnaire. All of these children were more than 11 years old.
Researchers say young people with the condition have varying stories. One teenager says it barely affects his daily life, while another person says it worsened her existing eating disorder.Frasnelli continues to study parosmia but says he’s excluding minors. Getting their consent can be complicated, he says, and he’s been contacted more frequently about adult cases.
The specialist and family doctor suggested using a cortisone nasal spray , smelling essential oils and trying to eat small bites of food, even though they taste horrible. The Asselins tried all of this, but neither sibling has felt improvements. “I hope that we can change that,” he says. “There’s a lot of training and a lot of education to do. But part of this education is also to say we don’t know what we can do and we have to do more research.”
He also suggests doing a type of olfactory therapy called smell training, which is basically a workout for your nose that can help retrain your sense of smell.describes it as sniffing the same few scents every day, and Frasnelli says to do this for several weeks or longer.Laryngoscope study
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