Experts say loss of smell is one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 and can be a frustrating experience, particularly for long-haulers. But two Canadian entrepreneurs have developed a smell recovery program to help patients regain the sense.
launched in early July and since then, the company's founders say they've seen over 1,000 registrations, mostly from referrals from doctors.
"My sense of smell and taste slowly started coming back about a month after my COVID infection, but then using the smell therapy, I was actually able to be at 100 per cent at maybe three weeks afterwards," Rasouli said. The smell training itself involves smelling four different types of essential oils -- rose, eucalyptus, lemon and cloves. These were the four smells Hummel identified in 2009. Sniffly participants are asked to smell each essential oil for five seconds for a set of three times, repeated twice a day.
While there is scientific theory behind olfactory training, Dr. Jay Piccirillo, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., says it's still unclear how effective it is.
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