Marcela Kloosterboer announced that she contracted coronavirus this weekend, along with so many other show figures who during this second wave transited or transited the disease. The actress climbed into her nets a post where she told that in addition to the positive of the virus and before losing her sense of smell and taste, she suffered from fantosmia.” With this face I tell you that I tested positive for Covid. Luckily mild symptoms, a very rare one, smelled like cigarettes all the time. Now I lost my sense of smell and I’m very congested… luckily not much more than that. To keep taking care of us and waiting for all this madness to end.”
Indeed, the description of the actress is a disorder called fantosmia and is an olfactory hallucination, where the body detects a non-existent odor. Fantosmia, the disorder that leads a person to perceive odors that are not actually in the environment where that person is located, affects up to 6.5% of the population over the age of forty. I mean, one in fifteen people. That conclusion was concluded by a 2018 study by U.S. scientists with data from 7,417 people. According to the same study it is twice as common in women as in men and tends to increase its intensity with age. In this sense, the opposite is true of the sense of smell in general, whose ability decreases over time. The effects of fantosmia are, of course, quite annoying, since the perceived smells are usually, in addition to false, unpleasant: burning, smoking, chemicals or rotten foods, or as in the case of the actress smell of cigarettes, among others.
