Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery | Long Covid
Doctors in London have succeeded in restoring the feeling of smell and taste in the patients who lost it due to the long long with the leading surgery that expanded in the nasal airways to start their recovery.
Most patients diagnosed with Covid-19 are fully recovering. But infectious disease can lead to serious long -term effects. About six out of every 100 people get the development of Covid Coveyd longWith millions of people affected globally, according to the World Health Organization.
Loss of smell and taste among more than 200 different symptoms reported by people with a long coffee.
Now the surgeons at the University of College in London for NHS Foundation Hospitals (UCLH) have raised ten patients, each of whom had a deep loss of the smell after the Cofide infection. Everyone has suffered from the problem for more than two years, and other treatments, such as the training of the smell and the corticosteroids.
In a study aimed at finding new ways to solve the problem, surgeons have tried a technique called functional plastic surgery (FSRP), which is usually used to correct any deviation of the nasal barrier, which increases the size of the nasal paths.
This enhances the flow of air in the olfactory area, on the surface of the nose cavity, which controls the smell. Doctors said that the surgery enabled an increasing amount of smell – chemical compounds that have an aroma – to reach the surface of the nose, where there is a feeling of smell.
They believe that the increase in the connection of the smell to this area “kept” the smell of the smell in the patients who have They lost their sense of scent to the long long.
Professor Peter Andrews, chief surgeon, consultant in the nose surgery and facial plastic surgery that led the research, said the surgery increased by the airway by about 30 %, so the air flow increased by about 30 %.
“This study showed impressive results – if we apply the principle of increased nasal air or sham, then we get a sense of smell and then improve the feeling of smell.
“With the long Anosmia, you have patients, mainly, who cannot smell or smell very bad, so we need to awaken them in one way or another. This process is a kind of doing so.
“He wakes up from the shaming mucosa and then builds on it through the growing nasal airway – it hits that area, and more smell that strikes that area – and we get this impressive recovery in most patients. All the patients who worked to improve.”
In the experiment, 12 patients suffering from FSRP and a set of monitoring of 13 patients continued with the smell training – inhaled the same smells repeatedly.
All patients with FSRP have been an improved feeling of scent compared to any of the patients in the Smell Testing Group, as 40 % already reported an increased scent. The results were published in the Journal of Plastic Surgery in a magazine.
One of the patients, 27 years old, from southern London, said her taste and smell “almost returned to normal” after the operation.
“Before I performed the surgery on my nose, I started to accept that I may never be able to smell or taste things the way I used to.
“Since surgery, I started enjoying food and odors in the same way I used to. I can now cook and eat garlic and onions and people can cook for me as well. I can go out to eat with my friends and family.”
