My dd (12) has covid toe!

[HelenDrinkwater]

She had no symptoms of Covid, ever. Not even a cold since last winter. It's affecting three toes at the moment, she says they're very painful, doesn't want to wear shoes. Not sure how we're going to cope on Monday!

Has anyone else experienced this? How long did it last? How did you treat it? GP just suggested paracetamol.

My dd has had this, no idea if it definitely is because dr was disinterested, never knowingly had covid but it started 3.5 weeks after university returned! DD's were so bad they had to be massaged three times a day and kept really warm helped. She took ibroprofen for a month. It's all bizarre but she's on the mend a few months later

Ps DD's were dark purple and affected both feet - more like frost bite than these photos.

Really strange how do many on pg 1 are doubting you. It was well mentioned EARLY in the pandemic.

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My DS has this summer 2018 way before Covid. Doctor said athletes foot even though I knew it wasn't

Turned out to be a fungal infection which needed antibiotics and cream. Looked just like one of those photos above and it then turned cracked and sore

I would say it's something like that

@Tippytaps

I am aghast at all these keyboard medics thinking they know better than the qualified GP!

Haha, a gp is not a specialist, he is a GENERAL PRACTITIONER, hence when he doesn’t have a diagnosis he refers to a specialist. And as I spend all day, most days looking at feet and have spent many years doing so and studying to do so i think i am qualified to comment. Believe it or not there are some people on mumsnet that have a career and business centred around this subject. Who would have thought it!

Sounds much more likely to be chilblains tbh. I had them last months on my pinky toe and outer side of foot due to walking on a cold floor. I definitely have not had covid.

So, not a qualified medical doctor then. “Ha ha ha”

@Tippytaps

So, not a qualified medical doctor then. “Ha ha ha”

No, “just” the person the Dr refers patients to for a specialist opinion.

Of course, maybe covid toe is actually chilblains? Entirely possible covid infection increases the chance of developing chilblains.
Either way it seems interesting that either more children than usual are getting chilblains due to being at home more in the winter or a lot of them have covid toe. I never knew so many people got chilblains!

I had chillblains for the first time this year as my classroom was so bloody cold in December with the windows open constantly. If your children were in school when they got them, that could be why.

@JS87 that’s my reading of the literature- chilblains and covid toe are not clinically distinct. Where previous covid has been diagnosed one can be reasonably confident, but otherwise it’s an open minded thing. It correlates with the observation that covid causes circulation/blood problems in some patients. We can’t say much more than it’s interesting that so many chilblains have happened this season in previously unaffected individuals and also in children which is unusual.

And strangely, me, the chilblain sufferer of the household has not had any issue this year.

My husband has had this for months. 2 of my four children also had it, and I got it recently. We haven't had Covid, no symptoms, completely obeying the rules, all tested negative etc. I can only conclude that they are chilblains as our Vivctorian house doesn't have insulation under the floor and shoes haven't been worn much!

My children were living in a house where both parents had just tested positive for Coronavirus.

Within days of the positive results both children (who had never had chillblane before) both developed puss filled swellings on a number of toes that then turned deep purple.

In my mind it has to be Covid related.

Two of my kids had chillblains for the first time ever. Could have been something to do with covid but I'm putting it down to being much more sedentary than normal through the cold months.

This was my son's toe. I took the picture to the pharmacist- she said chillblain. (I'd never seen one before - of course my first thought was Covid toe due to all the publicity....again we are house where there has been no covid.)

It cleared up in a few weeks. (He had been out on the football pitch getting cold. Then coming home and being put in a hot bath so makes sense.)