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Loss of smell in covid

2021-05-28 09:24:41
My father developed covid symptom one week back. He lost his smell yesterday. Please let me know if losing of smell is a sign of recovery or at least we may hope that things are not severe and the infection is at mild level.
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It is one of the specific symptoms of covid . It doesn't indicate the mildarity or severity of the disease.

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As a ent surgeon I can tell u there is no correlation between loss of smell and severity of dis6and it's a bad sign. Since few people are not recovering from this loss of smell afterwards also.
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feel free to consult with your history and how to prevent this loss of smell

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Not always .. Severity depend on how much  the other organs specially lung are affected

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