Is there any treatment for the symptoms of viral anosmia?
The standard medical line is that viral anosmia is not treatable and nearly all physicians will say that this is the case. At present, as far as I am aware, only Dr Robert I Henkin of the Taste and Smell Clinic in Washington DC, USA offers treatment for the condition with varying reports of success. After contracting viral anosmia in June 1998 I was first treated by Dr Henkin in May 1999. No ‘alternative’ therapies have proved to be successful. You can read the story of my illness, treatment and the medical science behind in a feature I wrote in 2005 for the British weekly science magazine New Scientist, for which I work: The Unbearable Absence of Smelling.
