and peach, coffee and chocolate or fontina and parmesan for a few seconds 3-4 times a day at different times of the day. We have chosen typical smells of our land because memory has an important impact in the rehabilitation phase. The goal is to rehabilitate "the sense of smell and at the same time stimulate the ability to distinguish different smells (discrimination), as doing it later could be more difficult".
What is anosmia?
We speak of anosmia referring to the condition of loss, which can be temporary or permanent, of the olfactory capacity. The nose is the organ that intercepts olfactory signals and odors, which the olfactory nerve carries and transmits to the brain. Anosmia is one of the disorders that have been associated with symptoms that occur in the short and long term after Covid-19. To regain the sense of smell after contracting the virus, the research has developed various methods, such as that of the Fano hospital coordinated by the team of Professor Arianna Di Stadio, professor of Neuroscience at the University of Perugia. The study is based on the "union of a nasal physiotherapy, sniff-test, and the administration of a food based on the molecule PEALut, an original microcomposite obtained by co-ultramicronization between Palmitoylethanolamide and Luteolinache, which can act on the control of alterations in the central nervous system.
) and ageusia (loss of taste). Numerous other Italian centers are joining the Marches experimentation protocol, the same for all the Italian centers involved, including the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, the Humanitas hospital in Milan, the Federico II University Hospital in Naples, the university hospital of Genoa, the university hospital of Trieste, the Careggi of Florence and the university hospitals of Sassari and Catania.