Eni Koçi tries the recipe with burnt oranges for the consequence left by Covidi, but how much does it work?

Loss of smell or taste is a symptom of coronavirus. Although it is considered a transient thing, many people find it difficult and try different ways to get it back.

A few weeks ago, TikTok users claimed to have a recipe that restores the senses of taste and smell, for those who have lost them after coming in contact with the virus. It is a "Jamaican medicine", which is about burning an orange and consuming fruit with brown sugar. It took so long for this recipe to go viral.

Recently, Eni Koçi has used this "medicine" to help restore the taste and smell, as a result of which the coronavirus has left him for several months.

However, how much does this recipe work?

According to USA Today, experts warn that there is no scientific evidence that consuming a burnt orange mixed with coffee sugar can restore the senses after their temporary loss.

Pamela Dalton, e cila ka një doktoraturë në psikologjinë eksperimentale dhe është një studiuese në Monell Chemical Sense Center në Filadelfia, tha për “Today” se ka të ngjarë që disa nga njerëzit që u përpoqën të digjnin një portokall për të marrë përsëri shqisat kishin rifituar disa aftësi për sa i përket nuhatjes dhe shijes, por nuk e kishin kuptuar ende. Dalton tha se njerëzit zakonisht nuk e dinë se sa nuhatje kanë humbur, kështu që të bësh diçka intensive siç është djegia e lëkurës së portokallit do t'u "japë një ndjesi të jashtëzakonshme". Ajo shtoi se edhe efekti placebo duhet të merret parasysh.

Sipas një artikulli të botuar në British Medical Journal, 90% e pacientëve me COVID-19 fillojnë të vërejnë se nuhatja e tyre përmirësohet brenda katër javësh nga infektimi.

Dr. Bozena Wrobel, an otolaryngologist at the University of Southern California's Keck Medicine, told Shape Magazine that TikTok's "invention" of eating a burnt orange was unlikely to work.

Wrobel explained that eating a sweet orange can be very stimulating to taste receptors, but does not "revive" the senses, and TikTok users who claimed to have "medicine" results are more likely to have recovered from the loss of smell.

So there is no evidence to suggest that eating a burnt orange with brown sugar will restore your lost senses as a result of COVID-19.