Smell Loss and COVID-19

Smell loss can be devastating to quality of life. 

SNOT FORCE researchers have identified significant associations of smell loss with COVID-19, discovering early on how people performed online search queries for smell loss even before smell loss became a known symptom of COVID-19. SNOT FORCE member, Dr. Elisa Illing, was recently interviewed for her expertise in this area of research.

WTHR 13 talked to Dr. Illing as she described smell training therapy as a way to recreating smells, much like physical therapy for the body.

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Elisa Illing, MD is Assistant Professor, Chief of Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery at Indiana University and Secretary and Executive Board Member of Snot Force Alliance Inc. 

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THOMAS HIGGINS, MD, MSPH

Husband. Dad. Sinus Nerd. Humble President of Snot Force Alliance Inc. Find him taking out boogers and treating sinusitis in Louisville, KY.