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 €œwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my nose
the whole time€�.

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. €œQuite suddenly everything smelt and tasted
like a horrid rubbish bin,€� said Watt, 51, last week. €œIt started quite
mildly and got much stronger. It was absolutely disgusting.€�

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 €œsewage chemicals€� to burnt wood.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...wood-j0dljx9g7

On 10/18/20 6:13 AM, Bod wrote:
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 €œwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my nose the whole time€�.

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. €œQuite suddenly everything smelt and tasted like a horrid rubbish bin,€� said Watt, 51, last week. €œIt started quite mildly and got much stronger. It was absolutely disgusting.€�

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 €œsewage chemicals€� to burnt wood.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...wood-j0dljx9g7


Maybe the Brit needs to brush her teeth?

On 18/10/2020 11:33, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary wrote:
On 10/18/20 6:13 AM, Bod wrote:
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 €œwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my
nose the whole time€�.

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. €œQuite suddenly
everything smelt and tasted like a horrid rubbish bin,€� said Watt, 51,
last week. €œIt started quite mildly and got much stronger. It was
absolutely disgusting.€�

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 €œsewage chemicals€� to burnt wood.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...wood-j0dljx9g7



Maybe the Brit needs to brush her teeth?

The tooth hurts: British teeth no worse than American, says study.

The British have reason to smile after researchers found their oral
health was in some cases actually better than their U.S. counterparts in
the study entitled "Austin Powers Bites Back."

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/17/health/british-american-bad-teeth-study/index.html#:~:text="In%20conclusion%2C%20we%20have %20shown,authors%20of%20the%20report%20said.&text= The%20long-running%20joke%20in,the%20authors%20of%20the%20rep ort.

On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 6:13:21 AM UTC-4, Bod wrote:
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 €œwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my nose
the whole time€�.

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. €œQuite suddenly everything smelt and tasted
like a horrid rubbish bin,€� said Watt, 51, last week. €œIt started quite
mildly and got much stronger. It was absolutely disgusting.€�

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 €œsewage chemicals€� to burnt wood.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...wood-j0dljx9g7

I had an episode of this about two years ago, so I have some idea of what
they are going through. I lost my sense of tasting salt over a period
of a few days to a week. I kept putting more salt on food, thinking it
needed more. Finally I got suspicious and realized that it wasn't lack
of salt, it was that i could not taste it. A couple days later, while
in the shower, I had the reverse happen. You know how if it's been hot,
you've been sweating, your lips can get salty? That's what it was like in
the shower, my lips tasted salty.

I did some googling, found a lot of people where the doctors said this could
be serious, a leak between your nasal cavity and spine, where they went for
big, $$$$ cAT scans and tests, where they went to smell/taste research centers, etc.
I didn't see where anyone found a root cause, so I just waited. Took a
couple of months, but everything returned to normal. I would suspect that
some kind of virus was responsible.

On 10/18/2020 10:36 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 6:13:21 AM UTC-4, Bod wrote:
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 €œwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my nose
the whole time€�.

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. €œQuite suddenly everything smelt and tasted
like a horrid rubbish bin,€� said Watt, 51, last week. €œIt started quite
mildly and got much stronger. It was absolutely disgusting.€�

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 €œsewage chemicals€� to burnt wood.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...wood-j0dljx9g7

I had an episode of this about two years ago, so I have some idea of what
they are going through. I lost my sense of tasting salt over a period
of a few days to a week. I kept putting more salt on food, thinking it
needed more. Finally I got suspicious and realized that it wasn't lack
of salt, it was that i could not taste it. A couple days later, while
in the shower, I had the reverse happen. You know how if it's been hot,
you've been sweating, your lips can get salty? That's what it was like in
the shower, my lips tasted salty.

I did some googling, found a lot of people where the doctors said this could
be serious, a leak between your nasal cavity and spine, where they went for
big, $$$$ cAT scans and tests, where they went to smell/taste research centers, etc.
I didn't see where anyone found a root cause, so I just waited. Took a
couple of months, but everything returned to normal. I would suspect that
some kind of virus was responsible.


I was in a restaurant years ago that had nearly identical sized smoking
and non-smoking sections. I asked the waitress if there were any
differences between the two sections. I was thinking of size of tips or
something. She said they had to re-fill the salt shakers 3 times as
often in the smoking section.

On 18/10/2020 18:36, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 6:13:21 AM UTC-4, Bod wrote:
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 €œwoody, kind of burnt, slightly perfumed smell in my nose
the whole time€�.

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. €œQuite suddenly everything smelt and tasted
like a horrid rubbish bin,€� said Watt, 51, last week. €œIt started quite
mildly and got much stronger. It was absolutely disgusting.€�

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 €œsewage chemicals€� to burnt wood.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...wood-j0dljx9g7

I had an episode of this about two years ago, so I have some idea of what
they are going through. I lost my sense of tasting salt over a period
of a few days to a week. I kept putting more salt on food, thinking it
needed more. Finally I got suspicious and realized that it wasn't lack
of salt, it was that i could not taste it. A couple days later, while
in the shower, I had the reverse happen. You know how if it's been hot,
you've been sweating, your lips can get salty? That's what it was like in
the shower, my lips tasted salty.

I did some googling, found a lot of people where the doctors said this could
be serious, a leak between your nasal cavity and spine, where they went for
big, $$$$ cAT scans and tests, where they went to smell/taste research centers, etc.
I didn't see where anyone found a root cause, so I just waited. Took a
couple of months, but everything returned to normal. I would suspect that
some kind of virus was responsible.

That's interesting.