Talk:Phantosmia

A fact from Phantosmia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 67% of pregnant women have claimed to have a higher level of smell sensitivity, whereas 14% have claimed to have phantom smells (olfactory system pictured)?

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Brown, Louise (23 July 2012). "Wikipedia course gets students' research online". Toronto Star.

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I don't know how to edit but this page has a number of errors. Oxymetazoline HCl (for example, Afrin) does not block the nasal passages, it opens them. Also cocaine is not effective long term treatment and the cited passage is from 1966. https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/38/9/803/307539 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.106.201.142 (talk) 20:10, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In the treatment section, this article mentions prophalactic treament. That's not a treatment!72.135.23.195 (talk) 00:57, 28 July 2012 (UTC)marigo[reply]

This page is horrible. Lack of citations, generalizations about the condition, non-sequiturs, and irrelevant data have swamped down the quality of the entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.195.42 (talk) 06:34, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with the last statement... this page is full of conjecture and is poorly written. It needs a more professional treatment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.172.220.104 (talk) 14:25, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Removed this text regarding epilepsy. It's just not true. You can have major seizures, minor seizures, localised or generalised seizures in any order. It's not true that they always spread or always get progressively §worse

"and the more seizures that someone has, the worse these seizures get. In epilepsy, a seizure originates in one part of the brain, and then spreads to other areas. An important dogma concerning neurons is that “neurons that fire together, wire together.” This boils down to pathways in the brain that are used simultaneously over and over again will become associated, and when one pathway is activated independently after this association, the other pathway will become stimulated. Therefore, with seizures brought about by epilepsy, the more areas become entangled, the easier it is for the storm to affect a bigger portion of the brain at an increased severity".§81.145.130.132 (talk) 13:27, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination[edit]

There has been a lot of improvements to this page.