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My elderly father is experiencing phantom smells in the middle of the night which no one else can smell?
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Abnormal smells: There is limited history here to go on. But if the smells are truly phantom and disrupt your father's sleep your concern is well founded. I would advise a full physical including a complete neurologic evaluation. Possible causes include dementia, brain tumor, seizure disorder or an untreated sinus infection.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Phantosmia: Phantosmia could be an hallucination or real structural disease. Take him to an ENT and or a neurologist. http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/7/611.full.
Answered 10/3/2016
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