Posted on 10/02/2021 8:51:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Loss of smell is one of the main symptoms of COVID-19, alongside a loss of taste, persistent cough, and high temperature.
A 12-week trial will look at whether nasal drops can help those who lost their sense of smell after having COVID-19.
The "Apollo trial" will treat people who have experienced a loss of smell or altered sense of smell because of coronavirus using vitamin A nasal drops.
The University of East Anglia (UEA) said research from Germany has shown the potential benefit of the vitamin, and its team "will explore how this treatment works to help repair tissues in the nose damaged by viruses".
They hope the trial "could one day help improve the lives of millions around the world who suffer from smell loss, by returning their fifth sense".
It comes after an international group of experts advised against the use of steroids to treat smell loss, instead suggesting "smell training".
One of the experts, Professor Carl Philpott from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said there was "very little evidence" steroids will help with smell loss.
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Amazing how Ivermectin treats all of the symptoms, but only India is smart enough to use it.
Lipoic acid.
The president would like to mentor the nation in this endeavour...
well good- they can bring back the zinc nasal spray Zicam which they took off the market because it caused loss of smell, but that cut way down on flu severity, That stuff really worked-
Wonder if it would do anything for anosmia caused by a savage brain injury?
It’s been 40 years since I smelled anything at all and living in constant fear of what I could be breathing in, unawares, is abject misery itself.
So I will try anything so I can once again smell my GF.
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