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Loss of smell in covid
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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Dr. Jayashree Sharma
General Physician
29 yrs exp
Chennai
It is one of the specific symptoms of covid . It doesn't indicate the mildarity or severity of the disease.
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Dr. Narendra Singh
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
11 yrs exp
Nainital
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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Dr. Anvesh Parmar
Nephrologist
15 yrs exp
Gwalior
Not always ..
Severity depend on how much the other organs specially lung are affected
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