923 The Smell of Medicine

In this episode Dr's J and Santhosh continue their series on the senses of medicine by discussing smell! Along the way they cover their recovery from c2e2, the memorable scent of anatomy lab, disease smell pokemon, bacteria wine snobbery, the miasma theory, human noses detecting disease, the discovery of smell, how olfaction works, disorder of smelling, sniffin sticks, covid, body odor, old people smell, smell rehab and more! So sit back and take a whiff of all this knowledge on smells we are sending your way this week!

Further Reading

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613515681

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33493729/#:~:text=For%20all%20anosmia%20and%20dysgeusia,taste%20was%20within%20a%20week.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28434127/#:~:text=Intranasal%20vitamin%20A%20at%20a,of%20post%2Dinfectious%20olfactory%20loss.

https://www.njmonline.nl/getpdf.php?id=1330

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/exd.13259

Nguyen TP, Patel ZM. Budesonide irrigation with olfactory training improves outcomes compared with olfactory training alone in patients with olfactory loss. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2018 Sep;8(9):977-981.

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