“It’s been a month since I recovered from the Omikron infection, but it still has an impact on my life. I get headaches from time to time, I’m exhausted, and most importantly, I haven’t regained my sense of taste.” An Omikron infection The person said on the social platform that after a month of recovery, there are still some sequelae, and the sense of taste has not yet recovered.
In response to the above situation, Li Tong, chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Beijing You’an Hospital, once said in an interview with a reporter from the People’s Daily Health Client that long-term loss of taste after recovery from the Omicron strain is an individual case. Sequelae will heal on their own. Jin Dongyan, a professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and a virus expert, also told the People’s Daily Health Client that this situation is very rare, and there is no symptomatic treatment. Generally, it will fully recover after two months.
Nucleic acid testing at the Wuhan Yuanmengjia Community Nucleic Acid Testing Site. Photo by Xinhua News Agency Wu Zhizun
Previously, a reporter from Health Times interviewed a number of Omicron infected people and learned that after being infected with Omicron, the symptoms are low fever, cough, sore throat, drowsiness, general weakness, etc., and the recovery time is about A week, Omicron is different in each person, which has a lot to do with the individual’s immune system. Most of the infected people said that they did not find any sequelae. One patient said that he often felt fatigued after infection. “After recovery, he can still feel physical ‘tired’ and fatigue, which is the kind of fatigue after a serious illness.”
Li Tong once introduced that some patients will have some sequelae after being infected with the new coronavirus, including decreased sense of taste and smell, decreased lung function, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, headache, etc., but they are mainly infected with delta strains or other primitive strain. The appearance of sequelae is related to the severity of infection with the new crown. The more severe the symptoms, the higher the incidence of sequelae. Omicron has a weak virus and mild symptoms. Patients mainly have respiratory symptoms, and the probability of leaving sequelae is low. If you have no sense of taste and smell when you get sick, there is a high probability that there will be no sequelae of decreased sense of taste and smell.
However, it cannot be ruled out that individual cases, especially severe patients, have a loss of taste and smell. Li Tong once said that with the extension of time, the loss of taste will gradually ease, and there is no need to intervene in such sequelae.
(Original title: Lost taste after recovering from Omikron infection for a month? Expert: Will heal on its own)
Source: People’s Daily Health Client
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