Fever, cough, body aches, headache, extreme tiredness, loss of taste and smell have been the symptoms of the coronavirus so far. Another seems to want to join the list as worried by dermatologists who have noticed in patients many skin manifestations possibly related to Covid-19 disease.
Pseudo-frostbite, urticaria, persistent redness: dermatologists alert the population and the medical profession to what they consider to be "demonstrations skin »Of the disease Covid-19, we learned on Wednesday. In one communicated, the National Union of Dermatologists-Venereologists (SNDV) explains that it organized a “ WhatsApp group of more than 400 dermatologists (liberal and hospital-university) (who) has highlighted skin lesions, associated or not with signs of Covid ".
Skin lesions on asymptomatic profiles?
" These are acrosyndromes (appearance of pseudo-frostbite of the extremities), sudden appearance of persistent, sometimes painful redness, and lesions ofurticaria passenger ", Details the SNDV, which judges" important for patients who have problems skin of this type consult a dermatologist », Remote or not. Dermatologists ensure continuity of care during pandemic, their consultations are mostly done in telemedecine.
" The analysis of the many cases reported to the SNDV shows that these manifestations can be associated (with coronavirus, editor's note), say dermatologists. We alert the population and the medical profession in order to detect these potentially patients as quickly as possible. contagious, without necessarily respiratory signs ", they conclude.
Detect these potentially contagious patients as quickly as possible, without necessarily having respiratory signs
The French Society of Dermatology, meanwhile, reports that the Department of Dermatology at Henri Mondor Hospital in Créteil recently observed skin signs such as maculopapular erythematous lesions affecting the face exclusively in three patients (one child and two adults) with a very likely infection or confirmed by Covid-19.
Asked about this Tuesday evening, the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, remained elusive. " Not to my knowledge ", He replied to the question of whether we could consider certain dermatological problems like hives as new signs of illness. " But as you know, we learn every day about this virus and some describe forms that were not known. But, on this dermatological aspect, I have not seen any publication ", He said.
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