Losing Your Sense Of Smell And Taste Could Be A Sign That You Have Coronavirus

Much has been said about fever, sore throat and tiredness as the main symptoms of coronavirus. But now multiple patients and researchers agree that in addition to stomach upset, loss of appetite and sense of smell would be other factors to consider and that would indicate whether or not a person is a carrier of the COVID-19 virus.

According to data collected by otolaryngologists in the United Kingdom, a third of coronavirus sufferers in South Korea, China and Italy have lost their sense of smell and could be "hidden carriers" of the virus.

This disease is known as hyposmia and according to the National Institute of Deafness and other communication disorders, it is "a reduction in the ability to detect odors." You can be born without the sense of smell, which is called congenital anosmia ", It is indicated on its official site. Loss of taste is known as anosomy.

Doctors assure People en Español that children can get coronavirus and that perhaps many of them are asymptomatic, facilitating the spread of the virus:

"A number has been presented that is growing exponentially with reports around the world of patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 and who are presenting symptoms of loss of smell and taste without presenting the most commonly recognized symptoms such as high fever or cough, "say Professor Clare Hopkins, President of the UK Rhinology Society and Professor Nirmal Kumar, President of the UK Otolaryngology Society.

"Iran has reported an increase in isolated cases of anosomy and many colleagues in the United States, France and northern Italy report the same experiences." "These patients," he says. "They could then be hidden carriers that have facilitated the rapid spread of COVID-19 [in those regions]."

Until the closing of this note, the official number of those infected by COVID-19 exceeded 926,000 with 46,412 deaths worldwide.