Experts believe that muscle aches, fatigue, and blisters on the legs may indicate that a person has contracted COVID-19. These symptoms manifest themselves in different ways depending on the age and characteristics of the organism.
A few more symptoms may indicate that a person has contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus. This is stated in the materials submitted by British scientists to the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), which, in turn, presented the results to the government.
According to scientists, we are talking about muscle pain, fatigue and blisters on the legs. They noted that symptoms can manifest themselves in different ways depending on the age of the infected and the characteristics of the organism.
While these symptoms serve as clear indicators of coronavirus disease, they will not be added to the definition of illness given by the UK's National Health Service, the Daily Mail writes.
"So far, as the newspaper notes, the three officially recognized symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, persistent cough and loss of smell and taste".
In July, the journal JAMA Dermatology published a study by Spanish scientists claiming that one of the early symptoms of coronavirus infection could be an enanthema in the mouth (a severe rash on the mucous membrane).
The study involved 21 patients with COVID-19 aged 40 to 69 years. 29% (six) of them had a rash in the mouth. At the same time, the enanthema appeared two days before other symptoms of coronavirus infection, the authors of the study note. In turn, doctors said that the rash appeared precisely due to the presence of a coronavirus infection, since the enanthema, although it suggests a viral etiology, can be caused by other pathogens.
In early October, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that multisystem inflammatory syndrome MIS-A, which was previously detected in children with coronavirus, has now been found in adults. According to the center, the syndrome arose as a severe complication of COVID-19 in children and adolescents. The sick began to have problems with the gastrointestinal tract and with the cardiovascular system. American doctors reported that they found 16 cases of MIS-A in patients in the United States and Britain, aged 21 to 50 years. Of these, ten ended up in intensive care, two more died. All infected people complained of arrhythmia, in 12 people it was accompanied by an increase in temperature. At the same time, the symptoms of respiratory disease were manifested only in half of the patients.
"According to experts, it has not yet been possible to find out whether the syndrome is considered part of COVID-19 or refers to the post-infectious period. However, it is noted that two to five weeks elapse between the symptoms of coronavirus and the manifestations of MIS-A".