You could have this new coronavirus symptom that doctors just found

A mouth rash appears in around 30% of confirmed COVID-19 patients, but the CDC doesn't list skin rashes on its COVID-19 symptoms.

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The CDC doesn't list skin rashes, or any kind of rashes on its official COVID-19 symptoms list -- while the WHO on the other hand says that skin rashes are much less common in coronavirus patients.

You could have this new coronavirus symptom that doctors just found 07

We all know most of the common COVID-19 symptoms, where some people have a sudden loss of smell and taste -- but there's also fevers, coughs, diarrhea, and more. There's also others that have COVID-19 and have virtually no symptoms, or a very mild case of it -- making it near impossible to make a clinical diagnosis.

Researchers in Spain have published a new study in JAMA Dermatology, where they detail enanthem in patients. The study points to work from Italy that discovered skin rashes on COVID-19 patients, with Enanthem being a rash-like lesion that is discovered inside of a patients mouth.

Most patients don't have their oral cavities examined by doctors, especially for COVID-19 -- so it has probably gone unnoticed for now. This isn't doctors forgetting to do it, but more safety and protocols that have to be followed -- and maybe now this might change.

The new mouth rash symptom doesn't appear in everyone infected with COVID-19, with researchers out of the Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal in Madrid discovering just 6 out of 21 patients had enenthem. But all of the patients had skin rashes, testing positive for COVID-19.

Doctors found that the lesions appeared in patients somewhere inside of 2-24 days after the first COVID-19 symptoms appeared, but just like other COVID-19 symptoms, these lesions can have different causes.

The scientists added that much more work and research is needed, adding that "the presence of enanthem is a strong clue that suggests a viral etiology rather than a drug reaction, especially when a petechial pattern is observed".

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