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Rash on torso= covid?

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Frazzled2207 · 17/12/2021 11:02

Exactly 2 weeks ago on the Friday DS started with covid symptoms, positive LFT on the Saturday and then we all went for PCRs on the Sunday morning. All clear apart from DS but husband started feeling poorly on the Monday and was positive later that week.
I have done LFTs every single day since and all negative. However on the first Sunday night a rash quickly developed on my torso, looked a bit like chicken pox/hives. Not that large and although a bit itchy didn't get worse once I'd seen it.
Was thinking of seeing the doc earlier this week but they're probably a bit busy. Now, after about 12 days, it is definitely fading.

I have read that rashes can be a symptom of covid. Never had anything quite like this before. Could it be a coincidence or am I likely to have had mild covid? Although the PCR was clear it was very early on and although all LFTs clear, given that husband's didn't turn positive until he was properly ill, I can easily believe they can be false negatives when viral loads are low.

Luckily I haven't done much socially during this time, just school runs with the other DS and supermarket runs (masked), and jogs by myself so not worried about having passed it on to others just curious as to whether I had it. DS got it through an outbreak at school and no suggestion it's omicron (we're up north).

I am double jabbed, not triple, but last jab was in September so not that long ago.

Wondering if anyone else had similar when they had covid?

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User5329806 · 17/12/2021 11:20

It may have been mild shingles, I have a itchy patch a couple of cm below my left breast and on googling it looks like a side effect of shingles from my booster jab so I guess you could get it from Covid. You can get also shingles if you are run down, often the rash is a bit painful and you can feel a bit fluey, it is more common in older people.

time4anothername · 17/12/2021 11:58

yes there have been many reports of skin conditions alongside Covid but can't be 100% it is that so keep an eye

covidskinsigns.com/

www.medigraphic.com/cgi-bin/new/resumenI.cgi?IDARTICULO=101030

Senso21 · 17/12/2021 12:53

My DS 5 has just had this exactly this, with slight temp. PCR negative but very strange and I still question whether it might be it but won’t put him through another test

AnnPerkins · 17/12/2021 12:57

DS 12yo had a rash on his chest and back when he had covid. He didn't get a positive LFT until 5 days after symptoms started.

Frazzled2207 · 17/12/2021 13:01

@Senso21

My DS 5 has just had this exactly this, with slight temp. PCR negative but very strange and I still question whether it might be it but won’t put him through another test
Weird isn’t it. I’m not going to get another pcr as it is going now!
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Franca123 · 17/12/2021 18:57

Mild shingles bought on by being run down through illness?

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