Surgeons believe the technique called functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) ‘kickstarts’ smell recovery in patients
  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 天前

    I have a friend that got COVID back in 2021 and still hasn’t gotten it back, so this is pretty cool.

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    5 天前

    Wild!

    I lost my smell after I got Covid in 2020. I didn’t get it back until 2 years later, when I got Covid for the second time…

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 天前

      Get it once turn it off, get it a second time to turn it on again. Sounds like molecular biology IT. “Have you tried infecting yourself a second time?”

  • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    819·
    5 天前

    Does it also fix the post exertional malaise and constant exhaustion? POTS? Neuropathy? Chronic myocarditis? The other 200 symptoms?

    Tbh, the sense of smell and taste is a minor problem for people with long covid.

    • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      5 天前

      How dare they do something if they can’t do everything‽
      Especially with something so minor in our lives as eating

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      101·
      5 天前

      It’s a specific procedure for a specific symptom where the disease harmed the olfactory area in particular. COVID can harm a lot of areas in different people and so far nobody has come up with a way to reboot all of them at once. In the meantime, research that focuses on individual areas can mitigate the misery. This surgery will help a significant number of people, giving them the normal safety against poisoning and a source of joy they had been robbed. Might even give them the hope they need not to choose death before other treatments get developed.

      • Case@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        3·
        5 天前

        I mean, I can think of a few ways to turn a person off…

        Turning back on, well… I heard about one guy. Took about three days. That being said, the author(s) aren’t very reliable.