And odor problems, you can have a great impact the lives of older people. Let us fully enjoy the environment and the smell of rose perfume, coffee, and rain, our sense of smell.
Smell is also very important, and we appreciate the food, no smell, we will not be able to fully enjoy the taste of food and beverages. But, more importantly, the smell of things in our environment is a warning. Smell can help us to know food is spoiled, or whether there is a gas leak.
The chemical odor sensing system, or "chemotherapy as part of the senses." When we smell around, such as flowers or the smell of baking bread, smell, stimulate the sense of smell, or small nerve cells responsible for smell. Small pieces of tissue in the nose and the olfactory cells high.
Odors released into the environment of small molecules, and stimulate these small nerve cells. Once the cell detection molecule, they will send a message to our brain, we determined the odor.
For most people, the sense of smell is a mild irritation, but for others, it may be more severe signs of illness and disease.
When the odor problem, they may experience the loss of all or part of the sense of smell. They sometimes think they smell, bad smell does not actually exist. Olfactory dysfunction usually have highly appreciated the taste of food.
Smell and taste are closely linked in the brain, but are actually different sensory systems. To detect a true taste, the taste buds on the tongue is limited sweet, salty, sour, bitter, salty, and possibly some other feeling.
Many people mistakenly believe that they have a problem with taste, when they are really experiencing a problem with their sense of smell. Sense of loss of sense of smell is much more frequent than loss of taste.
Older people's sense of smell gradually decline. Many older people do not even know they have a problem, their sense of smell. They may not even notice, they encounter the loss of sense of smell, until it becomes very uncomfortable.
Although rarely life-threatening odor problems, loss of sense of smell can be dangerous. Identify smells is your brain's way of providing information about the environment, you and your safety. Sense of smell, often as the first warning signal, reminding us of the smoke and gases smell of fire or gas leak risk.
When a damaged sense of smell, food loses its appeal, we may eat too much, eat too little weight gain or lose too much weight. Loss of sense of smell may also lead us to eat too much sugar or salt to make our food taste better. This can be a person with diabetes or high blood pressure problems, such as certain medical conditions. In severe cases, loss of sense of smell can lead to depression.
Loss of sense of smell may be more serious diseases, such as early signs of multiple sclerosis. Early diagnosis will help to better deal with the individual's fundamental condition or disease.
Research shows that people's sense of smell loss of all or part of the normal sense of smell sense, almost twice as long as people may have certain types of accidents.
In the most common type of accident involved the frequency of the order
Cooking
Eating or drinking spoiled foods or toxic substances
No gas leak or fire is detected
In 60 years, our sense of smell is most accurate. Women than men in identifying odors of all ages tend to be more accurate. Only about one percent of people 65 years of age in some of the problems with their sense of smell. After 65 years of age, loss of sense of smell increased.
Many older people think they can do their sense of smell. According to your question, the doctor may be able to treat olfactory dysfunction, or new ways to deal with olfactory loss. If you feel that you have your sense of smell have a problem, see a doctor.
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