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==Causes== | ==Causes== | ||
==Common Causes== | |||
*[[Allergies]] | |||
*[[Common cold]] | |||
*[[Infection]] | |||
*[[Nasal polyp]] | |||
*[[Old age]] | |||
*[[Sinusitis]] | |||
*[[Stuffy nose]] | |||
*[[Trauma]] | |||
===Causes by Organ System=== | |||
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|style="height:100px"; style="width:25%" border="1" bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | '''Cardiovascular''' | |||
|style="height:100px"; style="width:75%" border="1" bgcolor="Beige" | No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Chemical / poisoning''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Acrylates]], [[Cadmium Poisoning]], [[Methacrylates]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Dermatologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Drug Side Effect''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Ear Nose Throat''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Common cold]], [[Nasal polyp]], [[Samter's triad]], [[Sinusitis]], [[Stuffy nose]],[[Swollen turbinate]], [[Upper respiratory tract infection]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Endocrine''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Cystic Fibrosis]], [[Kallmann syndrome]], | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Environmental''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Nasal spray]], [[Smoking]], [[Zinc deficiency]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Gastroenterologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Cystic Fibrosis]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Genetic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Anosmin-1 absence]], [[Anosmin-1 damage]], [[Bardet-Biedl syndrome]], [[Cystic Fibrosis]], [[Genetic factors]], [[Intersexuality]], [[KAL1 gene deletion]], [[KAL1 gene mutation]],[[Kallmann syndrome]], [[Male pseudohermaphroditism]], | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Hematologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Iatrogenic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Permanent tracheostomy]], [[Nasal spray]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Infectious Disease''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Infection]], [[Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis]], [[Sinusitis]], [[Upper respiratory tract infection]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Musculoskeletal / Ortho''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Ethmoid bone injuries]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Neurologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[ Alzheimer's disease]], [[Brain injury]], [[Degenerative brain diseases]], [[Dementia with Lewy bodies]], [[Esthesioneuroblastoma]], [[Holoprosencephaly]], [[Parkinson's disease]], [[Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Nutritional / Metabolic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Obstetric/Gynecologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Oncologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Opthalmologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Overdose / Toxicity''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Toxins]], [[Zinc gluconate]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Psychiatric''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Pulmonary''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Samter's triad]] | |||
|- | |||
|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Renal / Electrolyte''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
|- | |||
|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Rheum / Immune / Allergy''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Allergies]], [[Samter's triad]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Sexual''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Trauma''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Ethmoid bone injuries]], [[Head trauma]], [[Trauma]] | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Urologic''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Dental''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| No underlying causes | |||
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|-bgcolor="LightSteelBlue" | |||
| '''Miscellaneous''' | |||
|bgcolor="Beige"| [[Old age]] | |||
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==Common Causes== | ==Common Causes== | ||
Revision as of 17:47, 11 February 2013
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Overview
A temporary loss of smell can be caused by a stuffy nose or infection. In contrast, a permanent loss of smell may be caused by death of olfactory receptor neurons in the nose, or by brain injury in which there is damage to the olfactory nerve or damage to brain areas that process smell (see olfactory system). The lack of the sense of smell at birth, usually due to genetic factors, is referred as congenital anosmia. Anosmia may very occasionally be an early sign of degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
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