¡°You can do olfactory identification test and taste test at the same time.¡±
A lot of people are struggle with olfactory sense disorder recently. There are so many different stories about hyposmia patients. Saying instance, housewife doesn¡¯t smell burning food properly, lost taste of food as they¡¯re losing olfactory sense. Statistically over 80% of people have lost palate when they¡¯re losing olfactory sense. If they cannot perceive even toxic gas or fire smell, then situation is really serious.
Type of Test
- Olfactory Identification Test : 10EA
- Olfactory Threshold Test : 5EA
- Stimulation Reaction Test : 1EA
- Test of Taste : 4EA
Reasons for smell disturbance
- Paranasal Sinusitis, Problem of Nasal Cavity
- Respiratory Virus Infection: Poisonous material or Drug effect
- Neurological disease: Alzheimer¡¯s disease, Parkinson¡¯s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington disease
- Congenital disease: Kallmanns Syndrome
- Other: Diabetes, Chronic Cardiac failure, Endocrine disease
- 10% of smell disturbances are unknown origin
- Individual difference: Smoking, Age, Sex
Functional Difficulty of Smell disturbance
- No recognize fire smell
- Difficult to use a gas
- Possibly to eat spoiled food
