{"id":143992,"date":"2020-12-29T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/coronavirus-long-haulers-experiencing-fishy-sulfur-smells\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:31:23","slug":"coronavirus-long-haulers-experiencing-fishy-sulfur-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/coronavirus-long-haulers-experiencing-fishy-sulfur-smells\/","title":{"rendered":"#Coronavirus \u2018long haulers\u2019 experiencing fishy, sulfur smells"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Coronavirus \u2018long haulers\u2019 experiencing fishy, sulfur smells<\/strong>”
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While researchers continue to study lasting,\u00a0long-term effects<\/a>\u00a0following infection from the novel\u00a0coronavirus, new reports reiterate\u00a0the so-called \u201clong haulers\u201d experiencing a distorted sense of smell,\u00a0catching odd, unpleasant\u00a0fishy,\u00a0sulfur and burning\u00a0odors.<\/p>\n

Professor Nirmal Kumar, consultant ENT surgeon and president of ENT UK, attributed the warped sense of smell to parosmia, calling it \u201cvery strange and very unique,\u201d per a report from\u00a0Sky News<\/a>. According to the\u00a0National Institutes of Health<\/a>, parosmia signals an altered \u201cperception of odors,\u201d \u201cor when something that normally smells pleasant now smells foul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though reports of coronavirus long haulers experiencing foul odors cropped up earlier this year, parosmia has yet to make it onto the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) list of coronavirus-related symptoms, though the agency notes the list \u201cdoes not include all possible symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCDC will continue to update this list as we learn more about COVID-19,\u201d reads the\u00a0agency\u2019s web page<\/a>.\u00a0One expert previously elaborated on sense of smell in the context of viral pathogens to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two sensory systems in our nose. We are able to detect pleasant fragrances by way of the olfactory nerve, whereas dangerous, toxic smells are detected by the trigeminal nerve,\u201d Dr.\u00a0Susan Shin, an\u00a0assistant professor of neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital, previously told Fox News. \u201cThe trigeminal nerve is likely more resilient to effects of a viral pathogen compared to the olfactory nerve because we need it to detect dangers in our environment, such as smelling smoke from a fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kumar said\u00a0thousands of patients across the UK are under treatment for loss of smell, coined anosmia and some are now experiencing the largely unpleasant odors associated with parosmia, per the outlet. The professor explained the patients\u2019 distorted smell stems from \u201colfactory hallucinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this spring, Kumar and ENT UK reported growing numbers of patients presenting in clinics with a \u201csudden, unexplained loss of sense of smell.\u201d Kumar says the organization was among the first to suggest that the patients\u2019 loss of smell was due to coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis virus has an affinity for the nerves in the head and in particular, the nerve that controls the sense of smell,\u201d the professor told the outlet. \u201cBut it probably affects other nerves too and it affects, we think, neurotransmitters \u2014 the mechanisms that send messages to the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this means is the virus is affecting the nerves in the roof of the nose \u2014 it\u2019s like a shock to your nervous system and the nerves aren\u2019t functioning,\u201d Kumar added, per another\u00a0report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While one 24-year-old patient in the UK, Daniel Saveski, reported a \u201cburning, sulfur-like odor\u201d ever since he briefly lost\u00a0his sense of smell for two weeks in March,\u00a0another patient in her mid-50s described the phenomenon as \u201cdisgusting\u201d and spoke of a \u201csickly sweet smell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost things smelled disgusting, this sickly sweet smell which is hard to describe as I\u2019ve never come across it before,\u201d Lynn Corbett of Selsey in England\u00a0told Sky News.<\/p>\n

Chrissi Kelly, a board member of AbScent, a UK charity supporting smell disorders, has advised those affected to avoid foods triggering unpleasant smells, eat room temperature or cold\u00a0foods to tamp down on rising smells and to opt for simple, bland foods like rice and pasta in the meantime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Separate research<\/a>\u00a0in late October from the UK\u2019s King\u2019s College London\u00a0analyzed symptoms of 4,182 coronavirus patients who had logged their illness using a COVID Symptom Study app<\/a>. They noted 558 of the patients saw symptoms last longer than 28 days, while 189 suffered for over eight\u00a0weeks and 95 patients with symptoms reported that they lasted longer than 12 weeks.<\/p>\n

The researchers found that among the\u00a0long-COVID\u00a0patients, symptoms were most commonly listed as fatigue, headache, dyspnea and anosmia and were more likely to occur in older patients, those with a higher BMI and in patients who were female. According to the most recent reports, the distorted smell, or parosmia, may more greatly\u00a0affect younger patients and medical workers.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Coronavirus \u2018long haulers\u2019 experiencing fishy, sulfur smells” While researchers continue to study lasting,\u00a0long-term effects\u00a0following infection from the novel\u00a0coronavirus, new reports reiterate\u00a0the so-called \u201clong haulers\u201d experiencing a distorted sense of smell,\u00a0catching odd, unpleasant\u00a0fishy,\u00a0sulfur and burning\u00a0odors. Professor Nirmal Kumar, consultant ENT surgeon and president of ENT UK, attributed the warped sense of smell to parosmia, calling it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/coronavirus-sulfur-smell.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[88054,71464,1545,61514,4966],"class_list":["post-143992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-29-20","tag-cdc","tag-coronavirus","tag-research","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}