The astonishing results like Handerson reinvigorated hope in people but doctors are still questioning the process. She estimated that the "level of improvement varies between 25% and 90%." I just cried like a baby", Henderson said.ĭr Christina Shin - a physician in pain management at the hospital - said she had treated around 30 such patients and half of them get their senses back. After the shot, she could smell the coffee.
Jennifer Henderson, 54, who received stellate ganglion block for COVID-19 at Cleveland was suffering from a similar condition as he was unable to taste or smell anything. Efforts to get the smell backĭoctors at Cleveland are offering the stellate ganglion block approach with the hope of clinical trials. There's no proper treatment to treat this however, a therapy of sniffing four cents - rose, eucalyptus, lemon and clove - twice a day for at least three months has shown positive results in trials. The National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication disorders noted that every one out of eight people, over the age of 40 years in the US is suffering from more or less olfactory dysfunction.Ī survey conducted last year highlighted that 15% of those people who contracted COVID-19 are facing problems with smell and taste even after several months. Smell disorders and anosmia become common with age affecting numerous people. The nervous system controls the main functions of the body such as digestion.ĭoctors are debating its impact on a person's life with some questioning the approach while others see real improvements as people started to have taste and smell. In this treatment for COVID-19, it is injected into a specific bundle of nerves - part of the sympathetic nervous system - on both sides of a person's neck. Usually, this procedure is for pain treatment in which doctors use anaesthesia to numb any part of the body. Those people suffering from loss of smell - anosmia - as a result of long COVID-19 can be restored with a numbing procedure called stellate ganglion block, NBC News reported. People wait to receive coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines at a vaccination centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 31, 2021.
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