Loss of smell or taste was once a telltale sign of COVID. Not anymore.
"Whether it's the kidney, or the heart, or the brain, I think there's a common theme emerging that a lot of it seems like it's immune system mediated, and that was one of the big findings in our paper," said Goldstein.
"I think this is where the olfactory loss field needs to go, more broadly, in the direction of what areas could be drug targets and may promote nerve cell regeneration or recovery," he said. of treatments for some long COVID symptoms, though none have specifically been announced for smell loss. Beyond impacting one's quality of life, like distorting once-palatable foods into off-putting flavors, Reiter said patients struggling with this long COVID issue face a range of new challenges.
One drug treatment that has been tried is steroids, though Reiter said evidence of it working remains scarce. is using concentrated formulations of platelets drawn from the patient's own blood, which might be able to regrow tissue after being injected or soaked into the nose.
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