Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. The negative consequences of olfactory dysfunction for the quality of life are not widely appreciated and the condition is therefore often ignored or trivialized.
In addition, they were given the chance to answer 43 specific questions about the consequences of their olfactory dysfunction.
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Although there are less practical problems associated with impaired or distorted odor perception than with impairments in visual or auditory perception, many affected individuals report experiencing olfactory dysfunction as a debilitating condition. Smell loss-induced social isolation and smell loss-induced anhedonia can severely affect quality of life.
Olfactory dysfunction is a serious condition for those affected by it and it deserves more attention from doctors who treat affected patients as well as from scientist who research treatment options. Olfactory perceptual changes can be quantitative smell loss or qualitative smell distortions. Smell loss can be partial, a condition called hyposmia, or total, a condition called anosmia. Patients with partial smell loss often also suffer from distorted olfactory perception.
Distorted olfactory perception can be subdivided into parosmia distorted olfactory experiences in the presence of an odor and phantosmia distorted olfactory experience in the absence of an odor [for overviews, see [ 3 , 4 ]].
