{"id":975,"date":"2021-04-29T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/?p=975"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:23:07","slug":"13-apr-2021-corticosteroids-no-significant-effect-on-the-recovery-time-of-anosmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/13-apr-2021-corticosteroids-no-significant-effect-on-the-recovery-time-of-anosmia\/","title":{"rendered":"(13 Apr 2021) Corticosteroids- no significant effect on the recovery time of anosmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>Effect of nasal corticosteroid in the treatment of anosmia due to COVID-19: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amjoto.2021.103033<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NCT04569825-The study was designed as a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. In total, 276 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients who were presented to the outpatient clinic with anosmia were enrolled in the study. In the betamethasone group, 138 participants received nasal drops of betamethasone 3 times daily until recovery for a maximum of one month. Similar dose of 9% NaCl drops was administered to 138 participants in the placebo group. The median age of participants was 29 years (IQR 23-37). Among them, 198 (71.7%) were females. Ageusia was co-presented with anosmia in 234 (84.8%) of participants. In this study, 83% of participants had recovered from anosmia within 30 days, with a median recovery time of 13 days (IQR 8-18). Compared to placebo, nasal application of betamethasone drops has no significant effect on the recovery time of anosmia (hazard ratio 0.88; 95% CI 0.68-1.14; P = 0.31).&nbsp; The use of nasal betamethasone to facilitate the recovery time of acute anosmia is not advised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effect of nasal corticosteroid in the treatment of anosmia due to COVID-19: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amjoto.2021.103033 NCT04569825-The study was designed as a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. In total, 276 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients who were presented to the&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/13-apr-2021-corticosteroids-no-significant-effect-on-the-recovery-time-of-anosmia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(13 Apr 2021) Corticosteroids- no significant effect on the recovery time of anosmia&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow"},"categories":[6,51,4],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}