AbScent, the charity caring about people touched by smell loss, is joining forces with Living Room Heath for a smell training workshop.
Living Room Health is Sussex’s new accessible and affordable healthcare clinic. The workshops will look to fill the gap in provision for people suffering from smell loss.
Around a quarter of a million people in Sussex have experienced smell loss since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, with many still affected by a loss of smell and taste.
More than four million people in the UK have experienced smell and taste loss, almost half of whom also experience smell distortions.
Parosmia is a distorted odour with a known source (eg onions smell like rotten meat) and phantosmia is a smell sensation without a source (such as random cigarette smoke).
Chrissi Kelly, AbScent Founder, said:
“We are very proud to be bringing smell training to Living Room Health.
"Our work with researchers and scientists around the world to better understand the function of the olfactory sense is crucial for the future.
"We are delighted to be able to help people and thanks so much to Living Room Health for making this happen.”
Smell training is one of the only treatments evidenced to improve smell.
It is the process of actively sniffing the same four scents every day, spending around 20 seconds on each scent with intense concentration.
The next smell training session takes place on November 30 at 4.30pm.
Sessions take one hour and are tutored by AbScent Founder, Chrissi Kelly. Additional dates will be scheduled and can be booked online.
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