As the coronavirus pandemic continues, doctors are seeing a new symptom of the illness, and it mainly affects children, Yahoo! Life reports. They’re calling it “COVID Toes,” and the condition, which causes painful and discolored toes and feet, is a cousin of the much-more-common frostbite.
Dr. Amy Paller, chair of the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, says that her colleagues in the dermatology field are reporting an influx of patients showing a reddish-blue discoloration of the extremities. Sometimes, the patient’s toes will be itchy or painful to the touch, or may even develop painful red blisters.
Paller says that it’s showing up so often in dermatologists’ offices that she calls it a “mini-epidemic.”
“We’re having a little bit of a mini epidemic… Every day I’m talking to another one of my colleagues who’s seeing a patient [with this condition],” Paller said.
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