New work by researchers from the University of Toledo (Ohio, USA) showed that almost half of the infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 notes symptoms such as loss of taste.
In earlier studies, this symptom was not observed, which probably was due to the predominance of other symptoms. A cough, fever and breathing problems. It is now clear that altered or lost sense of taste is also present in a significant proportion of patients, explained the experts.
In the new work, was done the analysis of the five studies conducted in the period from mid-January to the end of March. They were involved more than 800 patients. From 49,8% of them had problems with the taste. According to experts, there is reason to believe that the real prevalence of this symptom even higher.
the Researchers suggest that the loss of taste is associated with a relatively light course of the disease and the symptom will help identify carriers without typical signs of infection.
Loss of taste with COVID-19 can be explained by the ability of the virus to contact with the so-called receptor ACE-2, which is expressed in the epithelial cells of the tongue and mouth.
