Doctors told who is more likely to have a symptom of “covid fingers”

The symptom of “covid fingers”, or “false frostbite”, is a neurological symptom that is more common in people with vascular pathology, and smokers are also predisposed to it. Zoya Skorpileva, an immunologist at the European Vaccination Center, announced this in a conversation with RBC.

There may be tingling of the fingers, numbness, the so-called paresthesia. <...> In general, skin manifestations [with CORONAVIRUS infection] are already quite well known. It is also well known about the rash as one of the symptoms of the manifestation of covid, ”the expert said.

“[With coronavirus infection] they are quite common,” Zoya Skorpileva told RBC.

The coronavirus usually acts on the vascular wall, causing an inflammatory process, as a result of which the blood supply is disrupted, and one of these clinical manifestations may just be the symptom of "covid fingers," an immunologist, HEAD of the laboratory for vaccine prevention and immunotherapy of allergic diseases at the Research Institute of Vaccines and serum them. Mechnikov, DOCTOR of Sciences, Professor Mikhail Kostinov.