Paying through nose/ Injuries, infections can take toll on sense of smell

From: The Gazette | Date: July 18, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

James Collins used to have a top-notch sniffer.

"I could go into a hotel room and they'd say it was a no-smoking room and I could tell if someone had smoked in it before," says the 59-year-old Aurora man.

So when his sense of smell faded, he decided to look into it. When his doctor couldn't find anything wrong, his search for answers led him to the Center for Taste and Smell Disorders, part of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.

Testing showed that Collins' sense of smell was about average through one nostril and quite low through the other. The cause was believed ...

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