Skin manifestations of COVID19

[Jm954]

Skin manifestations were observed in about one-fifth of a group of patients with COVID-19 in the Alessandro Manzoni Hospital in Lecco, in northern Italy.

Of 88 COVID-19 patients, 20.5% developed skin manifestations. Eight of the 18 (44%) had skin eruptions at symptom onset, and the rest after hospitalization. Fourteen (78%) had red rashes, three had widespread urticaria, and one had chickenpox-like vesicles. The most commonly affected area was the trunk. Itching was mild or absent, and lesions usually healed up in a few days. Most importantly, skin manifestations did not correlate with disease severity.

The exact cause of the rash is not yet know but could be another important sign to look out for.

More here: mdedge.com/infectiousdiseas...

Stay safe, stay home

Jackie

[lankisterguy Volunteer]

Great information Jackie, as you know, I am one of the 25% of CLL patients that get skin issues from CLL, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/174...

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Mine is thought to be from refractory virus HHV-6a, so having another virus cause skin issues would not be unusual for me.

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Len

[Sushibruno]

I saw in the news that pink eye is another symptom.

[HappyCatUK]

Thank you Jackie, after reading this I am now even more sure that I had a mild version of covid19 last month. After general cold symptoms plus acute gastric pains for a few days, I then had a mysterious non- itchy red rash from my neck down to my waist, which lasted one day, followed by two days of mild itching all over my body and scalp. The next day all of it settled down (thought I was getting better 😏), but then I had 11 days of the most awful dry, non- productive cough which left me short of breath and feeling wiped out. But no fever, in fact my temp was always between 35.8 and 36 degrees the whole time. I have never before experienced such a strange collection of symptoms!

But thankfully feeling very well again now🙏

[Jm954 Administrator in reply to HappyCatUK]

Gosh HappyCat, you must have been one of the first people in UK to catch it if you did. How do you think you might have caught it?

[HappyCatUK in reply to Jm954]

Well, the first cold symptoms appeared on 9th March. In the week before I had been to the theatre, also had a hospital appointment, GP appt and a dental appt, also our tennis club AGM, school runs to pick up our young grandchildren on three days and they also stayed with us on a sleepover for one night. So, who knows, but plenty of opportunity! (Our granddaughter did get chickenpox the week after, so there may be a link there? )

[JerrysGirl3]

Jackie that's so weird with that rash. I think I might have had the corona virus back in early February. My grandson got sick first with thick green mucous. Low grade fever, a small blistery rash on his side that only lasted about two days, and a dry cough. Lasted several days. Then my daughter got sick. Low grade fever and severe fatigue with flu like symptoms. Then her husband got it. I was babysitting my 18 month old grandson at the time, of course not having been told how serious his illness was. The Coronavirus was not talked about yet. I suddenly got severe fatigue. I had trouble breathing. Chest felt so heavy that I finally took a moist heating pad and put it on my chest to try to "melt" the mucous. (It actually worked !!) Several hours later i noticed a strange rash on my chest above my breasts that looked like the rash on the left in the picture above !!! I remember because I had to take a long bus ride into the city the next day to NY Presbyterian seeing my CLL doctor and didn't know if I should go thinking it might be cellulitis. By the morning the rash was very faint so I went in. Thinking now that I might have had the virus gets me sick to my stomach because I went to a cancer hospital with the worst type of people to be exposed 😳😳. And how fast it went from one to the other to the other in our family.... Quarantine was not even talked about yet....how come this has not been put out in the news?

Kerry

[Jm954 Administrator in reply to JerrysGirl3]

It does sound likely and, if it was, you can be thankful that you all came through ok. When those antibody tests start to be done we'll get a better picture of how many people have actually had it and I think we'll be surprised!

Jackie

[JerrysGirl3]

I kept going thru the articles and came upon one with Leukemia Cutis. Do you know if this is the same as or similar to calcinosis cutis which I've had ?!!!! No doctors seem to care when I show up with these strange things like platelet clumping and platelets similar to but not as bad as sickle cell. And when I start getting lymph nodes welling inside and outside my body all I get is "it's probably the CLL"!!! I don't think that's fair