London surgeons return smell and taste to patients with prolonged COVID

Surgery, which causes “causes” recovery of sense of smell in patients who have lost it as a result of COVID contracting, expands their breathing ways to encourage their recovery, Guardian reported today.

According to the World Health Organization, about 6 out of every 100 people contracted to Covid-19 have long - term symptoms of the disease, and the loss of smell and taste is among the more than 200 different symptoms reported by people with a 19 - term hand.

surgeons at University College Hospital in London have used a new method of treating a dozen patients, each of whom suffered long - term loss of smell after contracting with Ovid.

All had had had the problem for more than two years, and other treatments, such as cortichosteroids, had failed.

Professor Peter Andrews, a senior consultant in renology and plastic facial surgery who led research, said that the operation expanded respiratory routes by about 30 percent, so that the air flow increased by the same percentage, leading to the return of the sense of smell.