TABLE II.

Distribution of All Patients According to the Subjective Assessment of Smell at Each Visit.

Visits	Total Number of Children	Olfactory Scores *						Middle Rank
		0	1	2	3	4	5
Visit No. 1, number of children (%)	79	25 (31.6)	24 (30.4)	8 (10.1)	22 (27.9)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2.53
Visit No. 2, number of children (%)	79	38 (48.1)	26 (32.9)	12 (15.2)	3 (3.8)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2.05
Visit No. 3, number of children (%)	72	72 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0.00
P value between visits No. 1 and No. 2 †								<.001
p‐value between visits No. 1 and No. 3 †								<.001

^*Results in scores of the answer to item 21 (sense of taste/smell) of the SNOT‐22.

^†Nonparametric Wilcoxon signed‐rank test for dependent samples.