Doctors say 'COVID toes' could be a way to track the coronavirus in otherwise asymptomatic patients.
ByDermatologists say looking at a person’s feet may be a handy way of seeing if someone has the coronavirus.
It seems that many otherwise asymptomatic people are reporting the presence of painful purplish lesions on their toes.typically painful to touch and could have a hot burning sensation,” Dr. Ebbing Lautenbach, chief of infectious disease at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, toldmanifestation that occurs early on in the disease, meaning you have this first, then you progress. Sometimes this might be your first clue that they have COVID when they don’t have any other symptoms.
Lautenbach said for some people, “COVID toes” disappear without showing up with any other symptoms after a week or so, while others come down with serious respiratory problems. In order to track whether the toe lesions are a true indicator of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, theto track all the dermatological effects that COVID-19 patients may be experiencing.
Dr. Esther Freeman, a dermatologist and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard Medical School faculty member,lesions are a sign the virus is causing general inflammation in the body, while others think the virus is inflaming the walls of the blood vessels, a condition called “vasculitis.”complicationPlease be aware there are skin signs of covid. Purple red papules on the fingers and toes. Looks like chilblains/ pernio. May have no other covid symptoms.
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