Coronavirus infection can show different symptoms in the elderly and young people. In the middle of the common symptoms; cough, fever, sore throat, dry cough, weakness and fatigue. However, sudden loss of smell and taste, which often occurs in the middle-aged group and young people, is also one of the symptoms in individuals who have coronavirus infection and may be associated with coronavirus. Viruses taken from the upper respiratory tract may colonize the nasal and throat mucosa and multiply and be destroyed by the body, or they may descend to the lungs through inhalation from there and cause an infection such as pneumonia.
Loss of smell and taste is the most common cause
Associate Professor Yavuz Selim Yıldırım, “Upper respiratory tract infections due to viruses are the most common cause of loss of smell and taste. When we evaluate the current situation, During the asymptomatic coronavirus infection, sudden loss of smell and taste can be seen in people. Our most valuable aim in explaining this is that these individuals should quarantine themselves, because they are contagious and can carry the virus unknowingly. By transmitting this infection to their families and the elderly in their residences, more severe infections may occur in the elderly.
Again in young people, this Coronavirus infection can also be passed in the form of mild sore throat, nausea and diarrhea. Mild headache, runny nose, sore throat, weakness symptoms are sometimes added to these, sometimes loss of smell, taste, sometimes diarrhea and sometimes dry cough and fever are now all It can be associated with the coronavirus, which is common in the world.
