Smell dysfunction | Alergoprofil

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Published: Mar 31, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24292/01.AP.171290121

Keywords:

smell dysfunction, rhinosinusitis, COVID-19

Piotr Rapiejko

Klinika Otolaryngologii i Onkologii Laryngologicznej z Klinicznym Oddziałem Chirurgii Czaszkowo-Szczękowo-Twarzowej, Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3868-0294

Agnieszka Lipiec

Zakład Profilaktyki Zagrożeń Środowiskowych i Alergologii, Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3037-2326

Abstract

The sense of smell is a primal sense for humans as well as animals. Smell allows vertebrates and other organisms with olfactory receptors to identify food, predators and provides both sensual pleasures as well as warnings of danger. Dysfunction or loss of sense of smell occurs in diseases accompanied by impaired nasal patency such as chronic rhinosinusitis, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, allergic rhinitis, respiratory infections including acute rhinosinusitis. In the case of rhinosinusitis, olfactory disturbances are one of the four main symptoms of the disease. Olfactory dysfunction may also be caused by damage to the olfactory neuron, e.g. during a viral infection. The loss of smell and/or taste reported by patients with COVID-19 is of major clinical importance; it facilitates the earliest possible identification of the infected for isolation, if access to testing is limited, and facilitates qualification for targeted testing. Modern intranasal corticosteroids are used in the treatment of disorders and loss of smell caused by impaired nasal patency (or accompanying diseases with impaired nasal patency).

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Rapiejko , P., & Lipiec , A. (2021). Smell dysfunction. Alergoprofil, 17(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.24292/01.AP.171290121

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Vol 17 No 1 (2021)

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