London’s doctors have successfully recovered the smell and taste of patients who have lost Kobe due to long covid surgery, expanding their nose prayer.
Most patients diagnosed with Covid-19 are completely restored. But infectious diseases can lead to serious long -term effects. According to the World Health Organization, about six out of 100 people who receive Cobid develop a long covid, which is affected by millions of people worldwide.
Losing the smell and taste is one of the more than 200 other symptoms reported by people with long covids.
Currently, a surgeon at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has 12 patients, and each patient has lost odors after cobid infection. All of them have experienced problems for more than two years, and other treatments such as odor training and corticosteroids have failed.
In finding new ways to solve this problem, surgery attempted a technique called functional septal molding (FSRP), which is generally used to modify the rhinuses of the nose, which increases the size of the nasal passage.
This improves the air flow to the olfactory area on the olfactory area, the olfactory region on the roof of the nasal cavity, to control the odor. The doctors said that the surgery could increase the smell of smell (smelly compounds) that could reach the smelly nose roof.
They think that the smell of the smell is to increase the recovery of patients who have lost their sense of smell about the long covid.
Professor Peter Andrews, a senior consultant surgeon at the non -analogy and facial plastic surgery who led the study, said that the airflow increased by about 30%, which increased the surgery by about 30%.
“This study showed impressive results. Applying the principle of increasing nasal or olfactory prayer, it is reinforced of the smell sensation and the improvement of the odor sensation.
“If you use long covid anaeria, you can basically wake up because you have a patient who can’t smell or smell. And this is done.
“This is stacked through the increased nose after waking up the olfactory mucosa. He beats the area and smells more in the area. And we are getting this impressive recovery from most patients. All the patients we surgery have been improved. ”
In the exam, 12 patients had FSRPs, and 13 patients continued to smell. The same fragrance was repeatedly snipped.
All patients with FSRP have been reported to have improved the sense of odor compared to the patients of the SNIFF test group, and 40%have been reported to have a bad smell. The result was published in journal facial plastic surgery.
One of the 27 -year -old Penelope Newman patients from South London, London, said her taste and smell after surgery, “almost returned to normal.”
“Before I had surgery on my nose, I began to accept that I couldn’t smell or taste things like before.
“After surgery, I started to enjoy food. I can now cook and eat garlic and onions, and people can cook for me. You can eat out with friends or family. ”
