The common COVID-19 symptoms that patients experience are respiratory problems, fever, and cold-like symptoms. Some people who end up with the virus only exhibit a mild fever or cold-like symptoms. However, there are others who need to be put on ventilators. Or at the very least, they need to be hospitalized.
However, there are 8 unusual symptoms that some COVID-19 patients had experienced as well. Let’s talk a little more about them.
#7 – COVID toes
Some patients who have had COVID-19 experienced skin lesions, hives, rashes, and chickenpox-like signs. In Italy, dermatologists have found that about 20 percent of patients with COVID-19 had odd skin conditions in addition to the respiratory ailments they exhibited. Some had rashes that were beet red as well.
#6 – Dizziness
Milder neurological disturbances were also noted in some patients as well. They had experienced vertigo-like symptoms as well as headaches at the beginning of the illness. Therefore, losing your balance due to being dizzy was a symptom. And losing balance due to muscle weakness was as well.
#5 – Loss Of Taste And Smell
It is common for sensory changes such as losing the taste and smell when you have a cold or a flu bug. However, this is also common with COVID-19. One of the early warning signs that the CDC has added is a loss of those senses.
#4 – Muscle Weakness
Muscle weakness also falls under the neurological disturbances list, and some patients with COVID-19 had experienced that as well. Muscle weakness was exhibited early on as well but at times it did worsen and more severe neurological conditions resulted.
#3 – Gastrointestinal Ailments
One of the symptoms that at first patients who had COVID-19 did not expect to experience was any nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. That is because the Coronavirus affects the lungs. However, some patients have experienced gastrointestinal symptoms. And some only had stomach bug like symptoms when in fact that had COVID-19.
#2 – Cardiovascular Problems
It is not a stretch to believe that cardiovascular problems could be a symptom of COVID-19. Especially after realizing that it can cause clotting that is abnormal. Because clots could happen in the lungs. However, it can also happen in the heart and even the brain. And that can increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke, or a pulmonary embolism.
#1 – Delirium
COVID-19 does not only affect the respiratory system, the senses, the gastrointestinal tract, and skin. It can affect the brain as well. And some patients had experienced confusion and delirium as JAMA Neurology had reported that being the case. Some patients had inflammation of the brain as well.
