What Are COVID Toes?
Short answer is they aren t good!
If having COVID-19 isn t bad enough, we can now add a mysterious toe rash to the list of things that can happen if you test positive for the coronavirus. You have the symptoms we ve been hearing about for a year now including, fever, chills, cough, loss of taste and smell and now according to News 10 an odd symptom some are experiencing is a toe rash.
According to Mayo Clinic dermatologist Dawn Davis, COVID toes looks just like a well-known rash called pernio, which shows up on skin as sores or bumps that appear after being exposed to cold. She said, COVID toes is a pernio-like reaction that we think is due to inflammation or clotting in the superficial vessels of the feet, likely due to an inflammatory response affecting the blood vessel walls or blood cells, or a combination of both.