Coronavirus is a global pandemic with a high mortality rate; it is started in china in 2019 and rapidly spread worldwide, reaching its epidemic peak in March 2020 Coronavirus is a family of viruses that usually affect animals. They also can affect the respiratory system of humans, causing different manifestations such as difficulty in breathing, coughing, fever, invasive lung lesions, and viral pneumonia
Coronavirus is a global pandemic with a high mortality rate; it is started in china in 2019 and rapidly spread worldwide, reaching its epidemic peak in March 2020 Coronavirus is a family of viruses that usually affect animals. They also can affect the respiratory system of humans, causing different manifestations such as difficulty in breathing, coughing, fever, invasive lung lesions, and viral pneumonia Smell and taste dysfunction is more frequent in the initial stages of covid-19 infection that occur within the first five days and may be used as pivotal symptoms in the early diagnosis of the disease
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
80
10 mg of systemic corticosteroids were prescribed weekly to patients to observe taste and smell sensation recovery.
Faculty of Dentistry
Cairo, Egypt
Taste sensation
recovery of taste sensation by questionnaire
Time frame: 3 months
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