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PREVALENCE OF SMELL AND TASTE DISORDERS IN PATIENTS RECOVERING FROM COVID-19
*Dr. Mohammad Ahmad Zanhar and Dr. Atallah Hassan Hilal
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The COVID-19 outbreak has spread extensively around the world. Loss of smell and taste have emerged as main predictors for COVID-19. Patients with sudden loss of smell should initiate social distancing and home isolation measures and be tested for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test when available. Olfactory training is recommended when smell does not come back after 1 month but can be started earlier. Keywords: Smell and taste dysfunction, Anosmia, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19. Methodology: The study was done by "Google Form" on 613 of public of Nineveh Governorate which include a special questionnaire about COVID-19 infection and loss of senses of taste and smell. Result: The results are based on 613 persons, (480)78% of them is infected with COVID- 19. **The results show (368)77% of infected people had lost their sense of taste or smell (285)78% to them lost both sense of taste and smell. (333) 90% of infected people regained their sense after infection. **69% (331) of infected people didn?t develop parosmia while 31% (149) of them had parosmia. Conclusions: The loss of smell or taste is among the most common and persistent symptoms of COVID-19 in patients with mildly symptomatic disease.
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