COVID-19 COVID toes, blood clots and other possible symptoms

As Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expands the list of possible symptoms of COVID-19, health care providers are reporting other problems for viral patients. The pulmonologist will investigate the possible causes.

The CDC initially listed coughing, fever, and shortness of breath as symptoms of the virus.

However, authorities added a second category of possible symptoms:

• chill
• Shake repeatedly with chills
• muscle pain
• headache
• sore throat
• A new loss of taste and smell.

Health care providers are reporting other issues

To letter In New England Medical Journal, A team of doctors from Mount Sinai Health System In New York, COVID-19 argues that it can cause blood clots, which can lead to stroke and other health problems.

Dermatologists have also reported that “COVID toes” or frostbite-like patches appear on human toes. This harmless rash often resolves spontaneously without treatment, but many of the same patients were COVID-19 positive.

“One of the very clear things about caring for COVID patients is that it’s not just a respiratory disease.” Dr. John Hollingsworth IIPulmonologist related to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth.. “It’s a systemic disease, and can actually affect all organ systems, depending on the severity of the disease.”

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COVID toes

The skin is one of the largest organ systems in the body, and many systemic infections and disorders can cause symptoms on the skin. COVID-19 also shows changes in the distal end and toes. It is explained in many reports that people develop a rash throughout the torso, which is very common with those that contain the vasculature and are found in other diseases that have a vasculitis-like picture. .. Therefore, this is very consistent with that seen with other viruses that present with cutaneous manifestations.

COVID-19, and blood clots and strokes associated with liver failure

• The virus is clearly capable of invading many different cell types in many different organ systems. In fact, looking at organs such as nerve tissue, kidneys, and blood cells, it seems that there are inclusion bodies of the virus, and the virus has invaded these cells. Therefore, it is not entirely surprising that there are neurological symptoms.
• Stroke, on the other hand, is a rarer complication that is described in many case reports. In our hospital, we’ve seen the same things people do without other risk factors, with stroke, and with COVID-19. New evidence that COVID causes microvascular disease and microvascular thrombosis, causing vascular changes and conditions such as stroke, pulmonary embolism, or hypercoagulation that can lead to clots in the legs. there are a lot of.

So does the doctor know how to doubt how to test COVID-19?

This makes it more and more difficult to identify who actually has COVID-19. Part of it depends on the prevalence of the disease in the community. As the prevalence of the disease increases, the suspicion that people have COVID should actually be quite high in a variety of conditions. I think that is one of the reasons why both CDC and WHO have a very wide range of symptoms when they are thinking about COVID-19.

How should the public react to this?

• It is summarized in controlling the spread of illness, social distance, hand washing, and keeping out of the public when ill. The rationale behind it is to get time. Therefore, there are new therapies to effectively treat patients who eventually arrive at the hospital.
• I think it confuses people because there is so much information out there that some of it is accurate but some is incomplete or even incorrect. So I’ll resort to experts in the field like Dr. Tony Forch to give good advice on how to deal with this illness.
• When approaching the hospital, I strongly encourage people to participate in these (clinical) trials. This is because it is a way for society to advance the market to provide new and novel therapies that will effectively and effectively treat infected patients.

resource:

Expanded list of coronavirus symptoms

CDC. Adding new symptoms to the list of possible Covid-19 signs

Doctors Find Younger COVID-19 Patient Serious Stroke

“Frostbite” toes and other characteristic rashes may be a sign of coronavirus infection, especially hidden in young people