A woman suffering from 'long Covid' says that she has trouble brushing her teeth or even showering due to her ongoing symptoms.
Long Covid is a mysterious condition in which a person still feels the effects of the virus months after recovery, and is affecting a growing number of COVID-19 survivors.
Among them is Katrina Haydon, 24, of Washington D.C. who told Fox News that her Covid infection in June 2021 has ruined her sense of taste and smell.
First she experienced anosmia, the loss of her sense of the two senses, and later developed parosmia, where the senses become abnormal.
Haydon still suffers from parosmia months later, and reports that some foods taste and smell terrible for her - and even some basic daily tasks such as showering and brushing her teeth can be a problem.
Katrina Haydon (pictured), 24, from Washington D.C., says she has trouble performing simple tasks like brushing her teeth and showering due to the parosmia she has suffered as a result of long Covid
Haydon (pictured) said that she struggles with the smell of heat, and that the taste of toothpaste causes a 'physical reaction' in her. She also has trouble eating dairy products or sweets due to how they taste
'I used to take a shower more than twice a day regularly, but at least twice a day, and it has been really, really hard for me to make myself shower once a day. It's so difficult,' she told Fox News.
Haydon said she has trouble dealing with the smell of heat, making showers - and other hot things - hard to deal with.
'And same thing with brushing my teeth,' she said.
'It's really, really hard because even non-mint toothpastes cause a physical reaction because they just taste and smell so bad.'
Some foods also have an unbearable smell for the woman.
'Savory foods smell like rotting sewage. Hot water smells like rotting meat,' Haydon told Fox News.
She also said that some
