They called it “Covid language” and it has been identified by some British doctors who are monitoring the Coronavirus epidemic. To show in a photo the new symptom associated with the disease was the professor Tim Spector, epidemiologist of King’s College London (KCL), which is conducting a study on App Covid Symptom Study, and which highlighted how several patients are reporting episodes of mouth ulcers.
The Covid Symptom Study app, developed by ZOE and used by KCL for research, is a telephone application used by millions of people in the UK: users report the presence of symptoms from Covid-19 and whether they have been tested to verify the positivity to the virus.
This App helps researchers identify the most common symptoms in positive people, as well as monitor the extent of the outbreak.
From the analysis conducted, specialists at King’s College London have discovered a number of symptoms that are not on the official list of the NHS (the National Health Service), some of which are quite rare. In particular, the team of scholars pointed out that one in five people (21%) with a positive test result will have a rash.
Among the most unusual changes at the epidermal level, one has been nicknamed “Fingers from Covid”: some patients have in fact suffered from reddish and purple swellings on the fingers or toes, sometimes painful but generally not itchy. This manifestation is particularly common in younger patients, tends to appear later in the disease and can last for several weeks.
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Speaking of the new skin symptom, Professor Tim Spector wrote on Twitter: «One in five people with Covid still have uncommon symptoms that are not on the official list of PHE (Public Health England), such as rashes. In this context, there is an increasing number of Covid tongues and strange ulcers inside the mouth».
One in five people with Covid still present with less common symptoms that dont get on the official PHE list – such as skin rashes. Seeing increasing numbers of Covid tongues and strange mouth ulcers . If you have a strange symptom or even just headache and fatigue stay at home ! pic.twitter.com/V04CiZNilK
— Tim Spector (@timspector) January 13, 2021
The phenomenon was also taken up by Gabriel Scally, referent of epidemiology and public health at the Royal Society of Medicine, who in an interview with TheSun he reiterated: “Various symptoms related to the mouth have been reported in association with Covid-19, a problematic virus to be treated, as it produces effects on a wide range of areas on a physical level”. The epidemiologist then added that “in the specific case of swelling of the tongue, we tend to speak at a medical level of glossite. It can also lead to a loss of color, a phenomenon which, in general, occurs in a wide range of conditions ».
Many diseases that affect the immune system (herpes is one of these, for example, but also Covid, as we have seen in recent months) tend to attack the tongue and generate ulcers in the mouth.
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