There are numerous symptoms that can result from a COVID infection, and many of these symptoms can linger. Some people – who suffer from what is called ‘long COVID’ – find themselves suffering from symptoms and new complications months before their illness. The more time passes, the more patients report strange signs of a previous coronavirus infection. Recently, some long-term COVID patients report a disturbing new symptom: exfoliating hands. Read on for more information on this strange complication, and for more signs of the virus: if you have this subtle symptom, it is possible that you have already FOLLOWED.
Amy Siniscalchi, one of more than 100 patients being treated as part of the COVID-19 recovery program at Westchester Medical Center in New York, told ABC 7 that she started shedding her hands after having the coronavirus ten months earlier.
“My hands would peel. I will wake up one day and my hands will feel like sandpaper, and they will peel in their entirety,” she said. Her fingernails also turn purple from time to time. Siniscalchi says her doctor refers to it as ‘COVID hands’.
Doctors and scientists working on the COVID symptom study at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, King’s College London and Stanford University School of Medicine say the peeling of hands can be the result of various skin rashes that associated with COVID.
According to a blog post by the experts of COVID Symptom Study, urticaria rash (also known as hives) can occur early during a COVID infection, but it can also occur later if a patient is no longer contagious. Urticaria can ‘start with an intense itching in the palms’, which can flake off. However, it can also be a COVID rash known as chilblains, which was ‘relatively rare before COVID’, but as a reddish and purple lump on the fingers or toes of COVID patients.
“When the [chilblains] rash repair, can peel the top layers of the skin where the purple bumps were, ‘they explained.
A September study conducted in the International Journal of Dermatology, found that coronavirus survivors may experience skin reactions long after they first contracted the virus. Esther Freeman, MD, principal investigator of the COVID-19 Dermatology Registry, told WebMD that these skin changes are likely to be signs of inflammation and that it may be a persistent immune response to the virus.
“Some patients have a long-term inflammation that is somehow caused by the virus,” she said. “We do not yet understand exactly why or how this happens, but the skin is particularly interesting and important because it can be a window that goes on with the rest of the body. Since it is very visual, you can see literally the inflammation that happens. ‘
Of course, this is not the only symptom that reports long-term reports. A recent study by King’s College London, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, identified some specific symptoms that have been reported more frequently during chronic coronavirus infections. Read on for a look at these long COVID symptoms, and for more news on coronavirus: If this part of your body hurts, you may have COVID.
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