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Is Phantosmia dangerous?
= Phantosmia dangerous? = Yes,it is dangerous.Phantosmia often damage to the nervous tissue .
Why would you continuously smell flowers when there are no flowers around?
Possibly or probably from a condition known as phantosmia (olfactory hallucinations).
When you laugh hard you get a strange taste in your mouth?
it is a sensory hallucination. i have phantosmia. i smell strange things sometimes, that don't exist. there's an article in the new york times from 1998 or 99 about these two things. Dr. Donald Leopold was the dr. that helped me. look him up, he's very open to talking to people and answering questions. i believe he is a professor now. hope this helps.
If you deaf if you can hear mute if you can not speak and blind if you can not see what are you if you can not smell?
The following are disorders of olfaction, or sense of smell: * Anosmia - lack of ability to smell * Cacosmia - things smell like feces * Dysosmia - things smell differently than they should * Hyperosmia - an abnormally acute sense of smell. * Hyposmia - decreased ability to smell * Olfactory Reference Syndrome - psychological disorder which causes the patient to imagine he has strong body odor * Parosmia - things smell worse than they should * Phantosmia - "hallucinated smell," often unpleasant in nature
What does it mean when your urine smell like rubber?
Well, if it's something others can smell it's probably something in the air, but if not it can be caused by many things. Usually it's is due to temporal lobe seizures or even brain injury. These kind of smells are usually caused by Phantosmia which causes random smells to occur, which sometimes is triggered by some sort of disease i.e brain problems like a tumor ect, but this mostly isn't the case. I would advise you go to see your doctor and talk him through your symptom because it could be somthing serious, but i doubt it is. Smelling burning can also be caused by somthing like a 'Sinus Infection' or sometimes 'Anxiety', but please get it checked out.
Why do I keep smelling this weird scent from my body?
Olfactory hallucinations are a type of hallucination which involves the olfactory system. Patients who experience olfactory hallucinations think that they are smelling something when there is nothing in the environment producing the odor being experienced. They may be able to describe the smell in detail, and they can have reactions to the smell, such as gagging at the smell of feces or increased saliva production at the smell of chocolate chip cookies. Althoughphantosmia, as it is known to the medical community, may seem primarily like an interesting curiosity, it can actually be a sign that a patient has a severe medical problem, and people who smell things which don't exist definitely need to see a doctor. One of the most common causes for olfactory hallucinations is brain damage. The olfactory system is a physical sensory system, just like the systems used to allow people to perceive touch and vision, and damage to that system can interfere with its function. People withtumors or severe head injuries can start to smell phantom odors as a result of confused neurons along the sensory system's pathways. Phantosmia can also be a symptom of epilepsy, caused by temporal lobe seizures which trigger the brain into thinking that a smell is present. Some people with migraines have also described olfactory hallucinations during the aura phase before a migraine sets in. Other causes of olfactory hallucinations include exposure to certain toxins, some types of drugs, and physical damage to the olfactory system, such as an infection. ps:i think you should talk to a doctor :]
What do you call people who can't smell?
These are the names applied to the various abnormalities concerning the sense of smell.Anosmia - a complete loss of smell.Hyposmia - partial loss of smell.Dysosmia - distortion in odour perception (includes parosmia & phantosmia).Parosmia - distortion of perception of external stimulus.Phantosmia - smell perception with no external stimulus.Hyperosmia - enhanced smell sensitivity.Currently, knowledge and understanding about the sense of smell is limited, although the past two decades has seen some encouraging results.Hope this helps
