Another strange symptom linked to COVID-19
<p><span>Spanish researchers are suggesting there is another symptom of COVID-19 not previously considered.</span><br /><br /><span>Health experts believe rash-like mouth lesions are another side effect of having coronavirus, after 21 patient’s mouths with COVID-19 were examined at Ramon y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid.</span><br /><br /><span>They were investigating whether each patient who had rashes on their skin would determine if they might have enanthem - a rash inside the body on the mucous membrane.</span><br /><br /><span>The study's findings - published in JAMA Dermatology - found six of the patients with skin rash had some form of enanthem in their mouths.</span><br /><br /><span>The patients were aged between 40 and 69 and four of the six were female.</span><br /><br /><span>"This work describes preliminary observations and is limited by the small number of cases and the absence of a control group," researchers wrote in the study.</span><br /><br /><span>"Despite the increasing reports of skin rashes in patients with COVID-19, establishing an etiological diagnosis is challenging.</span><br /><br /><span>“However, 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.”</span><br /><br /><span>Researchers noted many patients suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 have not had their mouths examined due to the worrying safety concerns around the infection.</span><br /><br /><span>The study noted enanthems were previously found in some Italian COVID-19 patients.</span><br /><br /><span>The mouth lesions join a growing list of strange coronavirus symptoms detected by health experts.</span><br /><br /><span>They follow the discovery of clumsiness disturbance in mental functioning, loss of taste and smell and migraine as odd COVID-19 side effects.</span></p>
