The advice is to tip your head back slightly and place 2 drops into each nostril daily. You can take Vitamin A drops 10,000 units daily dropped into the nose daily for 8 weeks. You can purchase these through Nutriadvanced where you can get a 15% discount by calling them on 08 option 1 and quoting my account number 3185555. You can take supplements like Alpha Lipod Acid Supplements. Biologically, lipoic acid is often referred to as the “universal antioxidant” since it is both water-soluble and fat-soluble. The symptoms usually resolve in 2-3 weeks. We are left with just a sense of salt and sweet from the taste buds on our tongue. This then affects our ability to taste as 80% of what we taste is actually derived from our sense of smell. It is believed that COVID-19 attacks the nerves that allow us to smell. 32% develop anosmia after the onset of other symptoms.58% of people lose their sense of smell along with other symptoms.10% of patients with anosmia (loss of sense of smell ) develop this first and then go on to get the other common symptoms – fever and cough.I recently attended an excellent webinar about just this. You can still pass the virus on even with only that symptom. It may occur in isolation and if you or anyone you know develops this, they should self isolate for 7 days.

It is recognised as a common symptom now. I have spoken to several patients with Covid 19 who have also lost their smell and taste. I haven’t had a cough at all so this disease is clearly very variable. I was very lucky – a slight temperature, symptoms of a cold, a blocked nose and then I lost my sense of taste and smell.

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