How Many Days Does It Take To Recover Smell, Taste in COVID-19?

Most common symptoms of Covid-19 are losing sense of smell and taste. A new study suggests that it takes around 21.6 days to recover from the symptoms in mild covid-19 cases.

The reduced or distorted ability to smell during sniffing or eating is also known as olfactory dysfunction.

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‘If you've lost the sense of smell or taste because of covid-19, you are bound to regain your senses within 21.6 days.’

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According to the study, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, the patient-reported prevalence of olfactory dysfunction was 85.9 per cent in mild cases of COVID-19.

And 4.5 percent in moderate cases and 6.9 percent in severe-to-critical cases.

"Olfactory dysfunction is more prevalent in mild Covid-19 forms than in moderate-to-critical forms, and 95 percent of patients recover their sense of smell at 6-months post-infection," said lead author Jerome R. Lechien of Paris Saclay University.

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To determine the results, the researchers involved 2,581 patients from 18 European hospitals.

The team also found that the average duration of olfactory dysfunction reported by patients was 21.6 days, but nearly one-quarter of affected patients reported that they did not recover their sense of smell 60 days after losing it.

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Objective clinical evaluations identified olfactory dysfunction in 54.7 percent of mild cases of COVID-19 and 36.6 percent of moderate-to-critical cases of COVID-19. At 60 days and 6 months, 15.3 percent and 4.7 percent of these patients did not objectively recover their sense of smell, respectively.

Reports of Covid-19-related olfactory dysfunction describe a sudden onset of olfactory impairment, which may be in the presence or absence of other symptoms.

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Source-IANS