A lost of smell called “Anosmia”

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Asked for Male, 29 Years

I was injured in train a year was 2013. I fall with my head and I hit down with the back of my head, since then I lost a sense of smell and sense of taste it’s been 5 years now I cannot recover my smell only tast came back. What can I do to recover my smell? because it’s seems like South African public hospital doctors fail to help me.

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Dr. Dinesh S Saini Neurologist 12 yrs exp Ahmedabad · Accepted Answer

Dr. Dinesh S Saini

Neurologist 12 yrs exp Ahmedabad

Loss of smell sense is a sequlae of head injury . it may not recover fully.

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need to consult a good neurologist.

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