Has anyone had the rash

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So. 4 weeks ago I think I had Coronavirus. Temp over 40 and awful cough. Go prescribed me ABx and steroids but it would not shift. DC went on to develop coughs.

Unknown to me my line manager had also at the same time been admitted to ICU and was confirmed Covid. Which makes me even more sure !

For the past three weeks DH, DC and I have developed a chicken pox / hive rash /. Bruising. . Went to the chemist who said might be scabies or bed bugs. Grim.

Bought all the cream. Bed bug vacuum ! All the works. Thankfully big enough house to sleep in separate rooms.

Still ongoing after 3 weeks soo made an apt with gp over zoom

Gp adament that it is Covid 19 related and is one
Of the symptoms!

Anyone else

What does the rash look like? Is it an itchy rash?

Yes we had mild fevers, chills, coughs, fatigue, weird taste, stomach pains, upset stomach and then when we were getting better my two boys got what looked very like chicken pox. They’ve had chicken pox and hadnt Left the house in well over three weeks at the this point so chicken pox seems very unlikely and it was just on their back, groin and legs

Yes, I had a bright purple rash across both cheeks and a bit on my neck after two weeks of covid symptoms. I posted pics on another thread recently if you search my username.

It was full of tiny little fluid filled blisters - almost like nettle rash.

I also had what looked like chilblains on my toes which baffled me as the weather was warm at the time. I had had an hour or two one night where i felt really odd...sleepy and cold and spaced out with black spots in my vision. When I took my temperature I was hypothermic (god knows why as the weather was warm as I said.) so I put the "chilblains" down to that.

This was way before the links were being made to Covid causing a rash but i did wonder, as a post-viral rash is quite common (chicken pox, measles.)

Yes al the same rashes as everyone else !

The whole family have them

It looks like chicken pox but def isn't

Not sure if I've had it. Had very itchy hands, palms, feet, sole of feet. Totally exhausted and just felt crap. Lasted about 4 days. Headache too. I
I was alone and as far as I'm aware the few people I saw before and afterwards didn't catch anything off me.
I'd like to think I had it but not sure at all.
Anyone had the same symptoms?

Interesting thread. The week before schools closed my twins were at home with extremely high temps tiredness and loss of appetite and came down with a rash for about 3 days. At the same time my body hurt all over all week like I'd been beaten up or something. No coughs though.

DS has had high temp, diarrhea and the rash. Doc said covid didn't give a rash so was confident that's not it, I'm not so sure

Incredibly itchy!

Which is why I thought we had bites.

We all now have steroid cream to use and it has really really helped. First night I have properly slept In ages after using that no

Doesn't a high temp often cause a rash though? I remember when my kids were small the doctor telling me this when I took one of them in. I know someone who was poorly a month ago, felt absolutely shattered, then diarrhea for a couple of days, but then a slight rash with really bad itching at night, which lasted a couple of weeks. I'm now wondering if it was Covid, because he'd been in contact with someone who had the "usual Covid" symptoms.

I had a cough and aches which began on the 12th of March (took nearly 5 weeks to clear). On the 27th of March I came out in hives all over chest, back and top of legs. Had a phone and video appointment with doctor and she diagnosed pityriasis rosea but I'm convinced it was linked to the cough. The rash disappeared over night! Pityriasis rosea usually takes weeks to go so can't be that.

DD had a cough which started on the 1st of March and DH had it a couple of weeks after me. I was the only one who had a rash though.

Starting mid March DS and I developed cough, lack of smell, breathing issues, classic Covid symptoms. A week after my DD (11) came downstairs looking absolutely deathly ill white on her top half but her entire legs were bright red like sunburn and hot to touch. She said they were also very itchy. Over a few days it reduced, her colour going back to normal and the red hotness moving down her legs until just in the end affecting her toes and soles of feet. At the start she just felt hot but by the end she was in screaming agony due to the pain and itching, which was only relieved by keeping her feet in cold water. We determined it was either a viral rash or allergy so treated accordingly, but am astonished to now hear about COVID toes, it all makes so much sense now.

Not medical, but this doesn't seem surprising to me? Virus causes viral rash.

Almost every time my dc have had some unspecified virus they've had an itchy viral rash on their back and chest. I thought this was just standard.

Re reading makes it sound like it was really serious but she was behaving her normal self apart from a bit tired and wanted to lay around reading for the most part. Just the final day where it affected just her feet was in pain and this went off as soon as we cooled her feet down.

Elephant my twins also had diarrhoea the day or two prior to the rash and temp. I have been assuming because of the lack of cough that we had all suffered some unspecified different bug or virus not covid.

Aren't post viral rashes quite common with several viruses though? Not dismissing, but wouldn't these just mean folk have had A virus rather than THE virus? I wonder if they differ though?

I've seen the covid toes thing though - weird

@TheoriginalLEM I don't know ! Not medical at all. However GP was adament. She told me to google because I was sceptical. I have. Other countries are also now reporting the same type of rash happening

Interesting - my dd has had post viral rash in the past although hers were more blotchy. I wonder if they are related to coronavirus infection generally? Just thinking aloud - off to Google

A friend who is a HCP has just told me about this. They raised it as were seeing so many cases and are fairly certain it is CV related but it hasn't been validated as a symptom

My elderly parents in London had covid symptoms and developed a rash around two weeks in.

I am wary to think they definitely had it as a large majority who have been tested (who must have had similar symptoms) test negative.

517,836 tested, only 148,377 were actually covid19.

apple.news/AKvXO8JjlRXKOJlIS4wDHRw
This was in the news this morning.

Interesting thread. I have the same rash but only on my right hand. No other symptoms. Went to doctor two weeks ago and they prescribed antibiotics (one finger got infected from itching) and antihistamines.

I seem to wake up with the hives/ blisters getting bigger and more appearing each day. Looks a lot like the ones posted here.

Excuse the state of my nails, the joys of lockdown 😂

I just realised it is hard to see in that pic. Fingers are swollen too.

My DC had a chicken pox type rash for a few weeks following our holiday abroad in Feb.

She and I got a horrid sore throat that was extremely painful to even sip water. Temperature and loss of taste.

Or doctor diagnosed it as a staph infection, so I don’t know if it was Coronavirus or just some other virus we had. I wish we could know!

When I say it I mean the doctor diagnosed the rash as staph infection. Other symptoms had gone at that point