When the ability to smell goes away
摘要
约14年前，Chrissi Kelly因病毒感染失去嗅觉，被诊断为嗅觉丧失（anosmia）。医生建议她学会与之共存，但她认为这种损失是灾难性的。研究估计，高达22%的人口存在嗅觉障碍，如嗅觉减退或嗅觉丧失，或患有幻嗅、嗅觉倒错等嗅觉紊乱。然而，这些状况常被临床医生误解、漏诊或轻视。
About 14 years ago, Chrissi Kelly lost her sense of smell. She had traveled to the Czech Republic to visit family and caught some virus. Months later, when she still couldn’t smell, she made the rounds to doctors, including her general practitioner and an ear, nose and throat specialist, trying to find answers.
She was diagnosed with anosmia (smell loss), and like many patients with her condition, was told she’d have to learn to live with it. But for her, the loss was catastrophic. “After about six months of complete loss, I was just climbing the walls, and I did not feel like myself anymore,” she says.
Researchers estimate that up to 22 percent of the population lives with smell impairments, like hyposmia (partial smell loss) or anosmia (complete smell loss). And many others live with smell disorders like phantosmia, in which a person picks up phantom smells, or parosmia, where typically pleasant scents like coffee or shampoo begin to register as highly unpleasant (think feces or vomit). Yet the conditions have been poorly understood, underdiagnosed and often minimized by clinicians.
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