Introduction:

the new SARS-CoV-2 virus, causal agent of COVID-19, was found in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Since then, the pandemics generated has put the world in suspense, given its high contagiousness and capability to damage the organs and their systems, including the skin. The skin has been affected both by the direct action of the virus and by the new life styles that have been adopted to avoid contagion.

Objective:

to characterize the lesion skins originated by the new life styles adopted during the COVID-19 pandemics.

Materials and methods:

an observational, descriptive and prospective study was carried out with the patients who assisted the consultation of Dermatology in the Clinical-surgical Teaching Hospital Faustino Perez Hernandez, from Matanzas, with skin lesions recently appeared with apparently unknown cause, between September 2020 and February 2021, and who gave their informed consent to participate in the research. The universe was formed by 14 patients bearing lesions without precise etiology. All lesions undergone clinical examination and some of them also underwent microbiological examination.

Results:

females predominated with 78.6 %, aged an average 34 years and white skin with for 71.4 %. Papules and pustules were the lesions of higher incidence, being the most affected those who wear masks for more than four hours. The most vulnerable anatomic sites were the chin, cheeks and peribuccal area.

Conclusions:

maskne and post-inflammatory dyscromies are diseases that are currently attributed to the continued use of face masks.

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