Patients with COVID-19, including children, often have various rashes on their bodies, pediatrician, infectious disease specialist, vaccinologist Yevgeny Timakov told Lente.ru.
Rashes in children with coronavirus disease, especially with the delta strain, have existed before, the expert said. According to the specialist, there is even an atlas of rashes that appear in patients with COVID-19.
“There is a concept in children such as covid fingers – these fingers seem to be frostbitten, such a burn. These rashes also existed, plus we have the concept of a multisystem inflammatory syndrome, which was present in the previous strains too – this is a complication of the coronavirus, when a vasculitis-type rash appears on the body. There are various rashes for coronavirus, they are frequent, ”Timakov said.
The doctor said that rashes are alarming symptoms and require observation, since depending on the severity of the rash, one can judge how the inflammatory process in the body proceeds.
Earlier, British physician David Lloyd said that 15 percent of children who contract the new omicron strain have an unusual rash.
