Viagra Use May Decrease Ability To Smell

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Higher doses of Viagra (sildenafil) may impair the ability to smell, which is possibly related to an increase in nasal congestion, German researchers report in The Journal of Urology.

A team led by Dr. V. Gudziol at the University of Dresden Medical School studied 20 healthy, young male volunteers who received Viagra, at a 50- or 100-mg dose, or inactive "placebo" and then were exposed to an odor-dispensing device.

The researchers tested the subjects' odor detection threshold, odor discrimination and odor identification ability.

They found that the 100-mg dose caused a drop in smelling or "olfactory" ability, specifically odor discrimination and odor threshold, compared with placebo. The 50-mg dose, by contrast, had no effect on olfactory function.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070117/hl_nm/viagra_smell_dc

[Saboburns]

1. Could

Could, mind you, be a good thing.

Cause you can't smell and stuff.

[Goblinmonger]

2. Is this somehow related to the

feminine hygene thread?

[Deep13]

3. Most women think men can't smell anyway.

Otherwise we might wash our favorite clothes once in a while.