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[link:https://www.today.com/health/skin-symptoms-related-coronavirus-doctors-discuss-covid-toes-t178991|
This skin condition could be the "new anosmia," experts say, because it often appears in coronavirus patients without any other symptoms
The longer the novel coronavirus circulates, the more unexpected symptoms pop up.
To name a few, ophthalmologists have said pink eye may be a rare sign of COVID-19, and anosmia, or a loss of smell, can occur in patients with no other symptoms. Coughing blood and tingling all over the body have also been reported.
Now, another condition possibly linked to the coronavirus has captured researchers' attention. Dubbed "COVID toes" by the dermatology community, it can look like "purple lesions" on feet or hands, Dr. Esther Freeman, a dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, told TODAY.
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FirstLight
(13,362 posts)I swear, I'm kinda menopausal, and for an entire day I convinced myself it was a fever and I was dying...probably just hot flashes and achey joints rather than a fever...
regardless, while I am glad the research is moving forward and being publicized for others to use data...my silly brain is adding this info to the playlist
LuckyCharms
(17,448 posts)purple sore on my foot for about an hour now.
Ex Lurker
(3,815 posts)dalton99a
(81,534 posts)Images from Northwestern show the progression of "COVID toes" from April 3 (left) to April 6 (middle) to April 21 (right).
Cha
(297,378 posts)meadowlander
(4,399 posts)I had unbearable hives on my toes for most of last week and still have some weird little raised red bumps like blisters on the ends of a few of them.
I put it down to quitting anti-histamines which I do every winter and most years I get a couple hours of itching on my legs and shoulders but never days and days of hives and never on my feet before.
I haven't had any other symptoms though and haven't left the house for weeks so I can't think where I could have caught it from.
Basically no chance to get tested but it would be great if I'd already had it and could get on with my life.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Earlier posts discussed 30 mutations of varying severity.