The list of mysterious coronavirus-related symptoms gets longer.
The last unexpected side effect happened to an 86-year-old woman in Italy, whose fingers turned black with gangrene, as COVID-19 caused severe clotting, which cut off the blood supply to the limbs.
Doctors were forced to amputate three of their digits after diagnosing the woman in April 2020, and described the case study as a “serious manifestation” of the disease in a new report published in the European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery.
Doctors were already aware that coronavirus can wreak havoc on the vascular system, although they still don’t know why. Currently, many members of the medical community believe that the side effect may be related to an increasingly common immune reaction to COVID-19, called a “cytokine storm,” which causes the body to attack both diseased cells and healthy tissues.
The medical community continues to discover unexpected new conditions for the disease, as the United States is approaching 27 million cases this week since the March 2020 outbreak, according to World Health Organization data. While many experience flu-like illnesses, such as fever, body aches, respiratory problems and nasal congestion, other common warning signs include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and a mysterious inability to taste and smell, according to the centers or disease. Control and prevention.
Even a year after the pandemic, scientists continue to identify unforeseen symptoms. Last week, King’s College London researcher Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology, revealed that one in five patients with COVID-19 reports less common illnesses, such as rashes, sores in the mouth, and an enlarged tongue, which are not included in the CDC’s list of symptoms.
Spector speculation comes from data collected by the ZOE COVID symptom study in the UK, which encourages Britons to find out what they experience during an infection. Spector told USA Today last week that “the COVID language,” in which the tongues of coronavirus patients swell inexplicably, is one of the rarest symptoms he has observed, “affecting less than 1 in 100 people.” , he loved.