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 “woody, 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. “Quite suddenly everything smelt and tasted like a horrid rubbish bin,” said Watt, 51, last week. “It 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 “sewage chemicals” to
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