Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSedaghat conducted a prospective, cross-sectional telephone questionnaire study which examined characteristics and symptoms of 114 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 over a six-week period at Kantonsspital Aarau in Aarau, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of severity, 44.7 percent of participants reported expressing mild anxiety while 10.5 percent reported severe anxiety<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Severity of the loss of smell or taste, nasal obstruction, excessive mucus production, fever, cough and shortness of breath during COVID-19 were assessed. The findings of the study are available online in The Laryngoscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Studies using mouse models of that virus have shown that the olfactory tract, or the pathway for communication of odors from the nose to the brain, was a gateway into the central nervous system and infection of the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These symptoms of psychological distress, such as depressed mood and anxiety are central nervous system symptoms if they are associated only with how diminished is your sense of smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This may indicate that the virus is infecting olfactory neurons, decreasing the sense of smell, and then using the olfactory tract to enter the central nervous symptom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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