The researchers understood the details of the mechanisms by which the coronavirus damages the sense of smell. And this will allow you to better predict your chances and recovery times. It talks about it in the insert on newsstands Thursday 4 November, free together with Corriere della Sera
We are publishing a preview of part of an article in the new Corriere Salute. You can read the full text on the issue at newsstands for free on Thursday 4 November or in Pdf on the Digital Edition of Corriere della Sera.
Man is certainly not a hunting dog, in our species the sense of smell is of little or no use. Before the pandemic, we would all have subscribed to this phrase, relegating human flair to a sort of evolutionary leftover. We were very wrong: with Covid-19, which has among its most typical symptoms the loss of smell, it became clear that this sense is by no means secondary and indeed, thanks to the many new studies on the subject we are discovering that an important indicator of our health. First of all because losing it can be a wake-up call for Sars-CoV-2 infection, in fact: two research consortia, the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research and SmellTracker, were born last year to study in detail what happens to the olfactory system with infection and from the data collected over the months on tens of thousands of people around the world it seems clear that olfactory neurons are targets of the virus, regardless of the variants. The effect of the virus on the sense of smell is so clear that, as he explains Sara Spinelli of the Sensory Lab (DAGRI) of the University of Florence which is participating in the investigations, the increase in reports of alterations in smell and taste considered a marker of very early case increase and directly related to hospitalizations, as well as an index of the effectiveness of the distancing measures: after just five days from a lockdown the new reported cases of alterations decrease.
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November 2, 2021 (change November 2, 2021 | 17:58)
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