ABSTRACT Background: The underlying cause of taste impairment includes damage in the central or peripheral nervous system, nutrition deficiency, systemic disease, idiopathic. This condition usually occurs with advancing age. Taste alteration may affect patient’s psychological aspect and causing malnutrition even develop into more serious health problems. Purpose: report aims to evaluate an unus...

Patients recovering from COVID-19 occasionally reported anosmia (loss of smell) and ageusia taste). This paper aims to use medications treat in post-COVD-19 recovered patients. A total 6391 patients were invited enroll this study all age groups, both genders different health conditions (immunocompromised immunocompetent patients). Clinical treatments done by application Apisal nasal/eye drops (...

A patient with a submandibular gland carcinoma was found clinically to have a unilateral chorda tympani, lingual and hypoglossal nerve deficit. This unique neurological entity of loss of taste sensation of one-half of the tongue (hemiageusia), hemianaesthesia and hemiatrophy of the tongue, has not previously been reported.

Introduction. Anosmia and ageusia are one of the most common characteristic symptoms severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) infection, with a frequency almost 50% in patients Western countries. Hypotheses proposing that virus potentially affects central nervous system (CNS) on rise. One hypothesis suggests enters via nasal mucosa then olfactory bulb cribriform plate, furth...

This is a cross-sectional study design aimed to determine the prevalence of Chorda Tympani Nerve (CTN) injury and related symptoms following myringoplasty. Thirty patients were included in this study. The methods used were measuring taste thresholds using electrogustometer to map taste threshold on the anterior two-third of the tongue on the operated side with the non operated side as the contr...