Unusual symptom of Omicron. It appears on the skin

The Omikron variant is becoming more common all over the world. The most common symptoms of infection are runny nose, sore throat, sneezing, coughing and tiredness. The skin symptoms of infection are also being talked about more and more often. They can appear in several different forms. What do you have to pay attention to?

1. The Omikron variant was first detected in November 2021.
2. In addition to this, most cases occurred in Great Britain, according to government data it was over 100. per day at the end of December
3. The information coming from there tells about the next symptoms of infection with Omikron
4. Now doctors are paying attention to dermatological ailments
5. More information can be found on the Onet homepage

Omikron variant – cutaneous symptom of infection

The Omikron variant in the UK is already responsible for over 44 percent. cases. It led to another wave of infections, reaching even 190. cases of COVID-19 daily. The symptoms of infection are reported by the British in the ZOE COVID Study application, created by doctors and scientists from various universities and centers, including King’s College London.

The app allows you to track how the coronavirus spreads, but most of all it is a huge database of infection symptoms. Thanks to it, specialists and patients can check which symptoms dominate at a given time and in a given variant.

Symptoms of infection with the Omikron variant are primarily symptoms related to the upper respiratory tract.

Currently, doctors are paying more and more attention to the next symptom. I’m talking about a rash. It can take two forms:

1. urticaria – raised lumps on the skin most often appear and disappear quite quickly, even after several hours. They can appear anywhere and are very itchy;
2. reminiscent of heat rash or chicken pox – may be erythematous-papular or erythematous-vesicular. It occurs most often on the elbows, knees and the backs of the hands and feet. Unlike the previous type, it can last for days or weeks.

According to the ZOE COVID Study data, 21 percent. application users reported rash as the only symptom of the disease, and for 17 percent. it was the first symptom. The rash is more common in younger people.

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Increasingly, there is also talk of “covid fingers”, another skin symptom of coronavirus infection signaled since the beginning of the pandemic. These are dermatological changes in the form of reddish-purple spots on the fingers and toes, with blisters and ulcers.

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COVID-19 symptoms. The rash may affect up to 40 percent. sick

As Prof. dr hab. n. med. Irena Walecka, Head of the Dermatology Clinic of the CMKP Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, skin lesions could occur in up to 40% of Polish patients. cases.

– The observations so far show that maculopapular and erythematous-papular changes occur most frequently in those infected with the coronavirus (over 40% of all cases). The next group are pseudo-frost changes, i.e. covid fingers (approx. 20% of cases) and urticarial changes (approx. 10%), as well as vesicular changes, which are quite characteristic of all viral infections. Another manifestation that affects a small group of patients is transient reticular cyanosis – most often associated with systemic diseases or vasculitis – says Prof. Walecka.

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In turn, the dermatologist prof. Aleksandra Lesiak explains that skin lesions are not typical only for COVID-19, they accompany many infectious diseases.

– Rashes are a consequence of an immune response. Often, when a virus appears in the body, macular spots appear on the skin. Urticaria and rash are the most common. The two types of rashes reported by the British, i.e. raised bumps and itchy rashes, are nothing more than hives and maculopapular lesions that may resemble heat rash. They are also called rash – says prof. Lesiak.

Omicron – the most common symptoms

As in the case of the earlier variants, symptoms of Omikron infection can be even several dozen. None of them are specific, although more often than before such ailments as scratching in the throat, night sweats and severe fatigue are mentioned.

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However, the most frequently reported are:

1. katar
2. headache
3. slight fatigue
4. sneezing
5. sore throat

The Omikron variant has a milder course than Delta, so it is easy to mistake COVID-19 for the common cold. So it’s worth doing a coronavirus test in case of any doubts. Omicron is very contagious, a sick person, even with a mildly symptomatic infection, passes the pathogen on.

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