The team are also seeing patients who partially recover their sense of smell and taste but instead describe distorted smells and tastes. It’s not yet known whether the damage will be permanent: potential regeneration could take at least 18 months.
Some people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell because the virus damages the olfactory receptor nerve endings or supporting olfactory cells within their nose. The research is part of an international study and leads on from the successful olfactory PhD programme currently ongoing at the UCL EAR Institute. Specialist teams at UCLH and UCL are at the forefront of research which could bring hope to people who have been robbed of their sense of smell and taste after suffering the long-term legacy of COVID-19.Ĭonsultant rhinologist Peter Andrews has relaunched the olfactory smell clinic at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals to investigate patients and health care workers who have been suffering with smell and taste loss following COVID-19 – sometimes with devastating results.
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