PARIS, July 5 — “What I miss most is the smell of my son when I kiss him, the smell of my wife’s body,” says Jean-Michel Maillard. Anosmia — the loss of one’s sense of smell — may be an invisible handicap, but is psychologically difficult to live with and has no real treatment, he...
Anosmia — the loss of one’s sense of smell — is psychologically difficult to live with and has no real treatment. — GrapeImages/AFP pic
“Anosmia cuts you off from the smells of life, it’s a torture,” says Maillard, president of anosmie.org, a French group designed to help sufferers. Eating is a completely different experience too, as so much of what we appreciate in food is what we can smell, says Alain Corre, an ear, nose and throat specialist at the Hopital-Fondation Rothschild in Paris.
“There’s a psychological aspect to this which is very difficult to live with,” he insists. “You need to get help.”You have to address the cause, says Corre, but “the problem of the anosmias linked to the virus is that often, the treatment of the viral infection has no effect on your smell.
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