Like many other Britons laid low by symptoms of Covid-19, Nicola Watt
lost her senses of smell and taste. She began to get used to what she
describes as a €śwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my nose
the whole time€ť.
Four and a half months later she succumbed to an unsettling and rapidly
spreading condition that is an unusually unpleasant after-effect of a
brush with the coronavirus. €śQuite suddenly everything smelt and tasted
like a horrid rubbish bin,€ť said Watt, 51, last week. €śIt started quite
mildly and got much stronger. It was absolutely disgusting.€ť
Watt, from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, had become a victim of parosmia, an
obscure condition that fills the nose with wildly distorted smells that
range from €śsewage chemicals€ť to burnt wood.
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