Donât look for quick fix to regain sense of smell after having COVID-19, doctor says
There are different stages to loss of smell, but what is most commonly reported as a COVID-19 symptom is a complete loss of smell or anosmia.
By: KGUN Staff
and last updated 2021-02-18 15:00:29-05
TUCSON, Ariz. â There are different stages to loss of smell, but what is most commonly reported as a COVID-19 symptom is a complete loss of smell or anosmia.
âCOVID certainly has brought the loss of smell back into kind of the general, said Dr. Eugene Chang, a surgeon-scientist and the vice-chair of the University of Arizona otolaryngology department. Discussion of things, so you know people who lose their sense of smell typically are pretty quiet about it, you don t really hear that much about it. But now we know that the loss of smell is one of the first symptoms that can present with COVID- 19 infection.