{"id":519340,"date":"2010-04-07T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/acupuncture-may-help-restore-sense-smell-following-respiratory-tract-infection-41939\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:20:04","slug":"acupuncture-may-help-restore-sense-of-smell-following-respiratory-tractinfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519340","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture May Help Restore Sense Of Smell Following Respiratory Tract*Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.06.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Acupuncture+_1961_19704269_0_0_7031806_300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>According to a recent study published in the April issue of the journal <i>Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery<\/i>, Chinese acupuncture may be a safe and effective treatment option for those afflicted with persistent post-viral olfactory dysfunction (PVOD), a condition commonly linked to an upper respiratory tract infection. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is no validated pharmacotherapy option for PVOD, which affects approximately 2 million Americans each year and often leads to a temporary loss of the sense of smell and permanent damage to the olfactory system. <\/p>\n<p>In the study, the research team recruited 15 patients with PVOD and treated them with 10 weekly 30-minute sessions of acupuncture. Following the therapy the participants had their sense of smell analyzed with the Sniffin&#8217; Sticks test set, and their data was compared to a group of control patients also suffering from PVOD who did not undergo acupuncture. <\/p>\n<p>The investigators found that eight patients in the acupuncture group significantly improved their sense of smell, while only two participants in the control group achieved the same result.  <\/p>\n<p>The study&#8217;s authors concluded that &quot;the observed high response rate of about 50 percent under [acupuncture] was superior to that of spontaneous remission, and offers a possible new therapeutic regimen in postviral dysosmia.&quot;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19704269\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/acupuncture-may-help-restore-sense-of-smell-following-respiratory-tract-infection-19704269-2\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/&#8230;on-19704269-2\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.06.10 07:01 PM According to a recent study published in the April issue of the journal Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, Chinese acupuncture may be a safe and effective treatment option for those afflicted with persistent post-viral olfactory dysfunction (PVOD), a condition commonly linked to an upper respiratory tract infection. Currently, there is no validated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}