Some victims of the coronavirus notice it: they can keep symptoms long after their recovery.This is particularly the case for those who have lost their taste or smell.They have every interest in consulting to prevent these problems from becoming permanent.Celine lost her sense of smell for two weeks after contracting the virus in April.She thought she was out of the woods but now another problem, olfactory, appeared: "It came like that one day in the evening while eating crisps: not only did I not feel the taste of these crisps but I had a weird smell in my nose. And it's been going on for three weeks."►►► Also read: All our info on the coronavirusSince then, Céline has been constantly smelling bad odors and it's very uncomfortable.But his case is not rare: between 10 and 15% of former covid patients suffer from parosmia, explains Quentin Mat, ENT specialist at the Marie Curie University Hospital in Lodelinsart: “They will describe different smells from what the different stimuli smelled like. olfactory before: for example people will smell a banana or lemon smell and they will find that it smells bad. They will no longer recognize the smells of what they smell.Cortisone and corticosteroids in spray can help, but above all it is necessary to rehabilitate the damaged olfactory cells with a specific treatment, affirms Sven Saussez, ENT specialist and researcher at UMons: “It is olfactory training. sort of physiotherapy of the olfactory nerve where, in fact, the patient must smell odors in the morning and in the evening as regularly as possible to properly re-educate the brain."This daily rehabilitation must last at least three months.It involves regenerating nerve cells and this recovery can last up to a year.But, after a year, if the patient has not recovered, then the damage may be permanent.To view this content, log in for free