NCT05104424

The Study of Quadruple Therapy Intranasal Insulin, Zinc, Gabapentin, Ice Cube Stimulation for Post COVID-19 Smell and Taste Dysfunctions

The Study of Quadruple Therapy Intranasal Insulin, Zinc, Gabapentin, Ice Cube Stimulation for Post Covid-19 Smell and Taste Dysfunctions

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

post covid-19 smell and taste dysfunction are common globally and affect the quality of life and also have phycological impact and anxiety, also affect on economy as the patients not able to do cooking or buy prepared foods and not eaten, also not able to enter the cooking room and prepare foods for themselves, also the risk of loss of smell the fire accidents because anosmia, many forms of smell dysfunction like anosmia ,hyposmia, and dysosmia ,Phantosmia , parosmia may occurred, the same taste disorders may has many forms like Dysgeusia, phantom taste perception, hypogeusia with dysgeusia. until now no definite treatments for post covid-19 smell and taste disorders , this study is novel study as quadruple therapy Intranasal Insulin, Zinc, Gabapentin, Ice Cube Stimulation may suspect having promising results

Detailed description

post covid-19 smell and taste dysfunction are common globally and affect the quality of life and also have phycological impact and anxiety, also effect on economy as the patients not able to do cooking or buy prepared foods and not eaten, also not able to enter the cooking room and prepare foods for themselves, also the risk of loss of smell the fire accidents because anosmia, many forms of smell dysfunction like anosmia , hyposmia, and dysosmia , Phantosmia , parosmia may occurred, the same taste disorders may has many forms like Dysgeusia, phantom taste perception, hypogeusia . until now no definite treatments for post covid-19 smell and taste disorders , this study is novel study as quadruple therapy Intranasal Insulin, Zinc, Gabapentin, Ice Cube Stimulation may suspect having promising results. The application of intranasal insulin in healthy humans has been linked to improve memory function and increased olfactory thresholds also enhance the olfactory performance and regenerate the olfactory epithelium which the corner stone mechanism at affection of smell and taste disorders. zinc orally has many functions and improve taste and influence the activity of carbonic anhydrase in saliva which is important in breaking down foods in our mouth . the application of small ice cube in the mouth for one minute may improve seat taste and lower temperature by 5 degrees. gabapentin working by altering or blocking abnormal electrical discharges arising from the peripheral damaged smell or taste organ

Conditions

• Smell Dysfunction
• Taste Disorders
• Taste Disorder, Secondary, Sweet
• Taste Disorder, Secondary, Bitter
• Smell Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Insulin aspart	intranasal rapid insulin 40 I.U as 0.1 ml as 2 puff at each nostril once weekly for 8 weeks zinc 50 mg orally daily Gabapentin 300 mg once daily for 1 month small ice cube at mouth before meals thrice daily

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-26
• Primary completion: 2022-08-26
• Completion: 2022-10-01
• First posted: 2021-11-03
• Last updated: 2021-11-03

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated drug study