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Is the lose of smell due to mucus build up? Or something more scary like directly affecting the brain's ability to process smell based input? (Or more likely so
by skizm 6y ago
Is the lose of smell due to mucus build up? Or something more scary like directly affecting the brain's ability to process smell based input? (Or more likely somewhere in the middle?)
- bobowzki 6y agoIt's not because of mucus. Unlike a normal flu I've not had a runny nose, at all.
- neuronexmachina 6y agoA potential mechanism is discussed in the article: > Last month, Sherry Chou, a neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, began to organize a worldwide consortium that now includes 50 centers to draw neurological data from care patients already receive. The early goals are simple: Identify the prevalence of neurologic complications in hospitalized patients and document how they fare. Longer term, Chou and her colleagues hope to gather scans, lab tests, and other data to better understand the virus’ impact on the nervous system, including the brain. > Chou speculates about a possible invasion route: through the nose, then upward and through the olfactory bulb—explaining reports of a loss of smell—which connects to the brain. “It’s a nice sounding theory,” she says. “We really have to go and prove that.”