BARCELONA, Oct 31 — At a hospital in Spain, a doctor holds a test tube under Encarna Oviedo’s nose to see if she can smell anything — a full 18 months after she had Covid. “Honey, vanilla, chocolate or cinnamon?” he asks her in the smell unit at the Mutua Terrassa Hospital northwest of...
BARCELONA, Oct 31 — At a hospital in Spain, a doctor holds a test tube under Encarna Oviedo’s nose to see if she can smell anything — a full 18 months after she had Covid.
Doctors are trying to help Oviedo and others to regain the sense through “smell training”, a long and slow process that involves sniffing different odours over a period of months to retrain the brain to recognise different smells. After a first assessment, they begin a four-month rehabilitation programme, which involves a weekly session with a therapist who helps patients to try to identify odours.
After endless anguish and several specialist consultations, she went to the Hospital Clinic where she was diagnosed with parosmia, a distorted perception of smell.
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