3. What are the symptoms?
Smelling odors that don't exist
Altered sensation of smell
4. What causes Phantosmia?
Phantosmia most often occurs as
a result of a head injury or upper
respiratory infection. It can also
be caused by temporal lobe
seizures, sinusitis, brain
tumors, migraine, Parkinson's
disease and stroke
5. What are the treatments?
Treatment includes assurance with no active
therapy ,topical medications, systemic
medications, anesthesia to parts of the nose
and, rarely, referral for surgical excision of
olfactory neurons. Endoscopic transnasal
operations have the advantage of treating
phantosmia and sometimes allowing a
return of olfactory ability after the
operation.