Can you help me identify a skin condition??

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We are 7 years down the line with GP, dermatologists etc and the only explanation ever given is eczema, nothing works, it's extremely painful often cracks and bleeds present on hands, inner arms and under arms. DP is a chef while on furlough it disappeared completely ?? Any ideas??

Stress if it disappeared on furlough!

Some cleaner he’s using at work?

Its uriticaria. I had the exact same across my entire torso some years ago. Horrid. He needs something like prednisone.

Another for urticaria

I suspect uticaria caused but hot sweaty skin caused by a hot sweaty kitchen. It’s basically hives.

Urticaria*

Have you tried changing your washing detergent/did you change to something else 7 years ago?

I thought I would try blue Percil (supposed to be kind to skin) but my skin reacted to it. I've now gone back to green Percil and have no problems.

Allergic to certain antiperspirants? I only say because I used a stronger one when I was working in the hot sweaty factory and used cheap ones for wafting around at home.
Also stress from work can show up in all sorts of odd ways.

He takes a daily antihistamine would that not cover it, if it were hives?

@valhalla17 that's a steroid isn't it? They have given those in the past but usually just for 7 days

Try non bio washing detergent. We have to use fairy pods as dh is super sensitive.
If you use bio when he sweats it will reactivate the washing stuff.
If he's not chopping stuff at home it might be that.
I can't chop and peel potatoes and they make my skin so bad.

It's definitely not the washing stuff, you could be on to something with stress as he hates his job. He has been a chef for 30 yes though, why would the heat of the kitchen cause it now when it didn't before?

Uriticaria isnt really "just hives" though...its kind of hives x 100

And yes I basically wore a tight belt over a dress one day and had a ring of that exact rash where the belt had been. Over days and weeks the rash expanded over my entire stomach and back as my body just kept having an immune reaction. It was red hot, itchy and parts of it became purple. I had steroids for 2 weeks to clear it.

Heat?

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Uriticaria isnt really "just hives" though...its kind of hives x 100

And yes I basically wore a tight belt over a dress one day and had a ring of that exact rash where the belt had been. Over days and weeks the rash expanded over my entire stomach and back as my body just kept having an immune reaction. It was red hot, itchy and parts of it became purple. I had steroids for 2 weeks to clear it.

No of course, I was using it to make it relatable in case the OP hadn’t heard of it. It can be caused/exacerbated by heat and moisture, which I imagine is exactly the condition in a kitchen. It’s really uncomfortable and I think my brother has a steroid cream to clear his.

No, taking one histamine might not be enough I take 4 -prescribed (2 morn 2 night)and sometimes it's still not great. Being stressed can make it worse. I've had it for over a year now.

Urticaria.

It's absolutely torturous.

Is he spraying on lots of anti perspirant while at work in the kitchen?

Is it a bit whiffy? I would try Daktacourt on it.

@jajabanks ... DP takes fexofenadine 120mg once a day but often ends up taking more, I just don't know how to help him currently his hands are all swollen, cracked and bleeding he can't even fasten his trousers like I said 7 years and all they ever prescribe are emollients and anti biotics when it's infected

@jewelGarden there's no smell, should I just buy the daktacort cream?

Not sure if entirely appropriate but when DS hands are so sore they crack the dermatologist recommended Epaderm ointment.
Must be the ointment. Sometimes I use Aveeno sensitive to moisturise first, let that sink in then seal it with the epiderm.

@passmethemilk epaderm ointment doesn't work, he's tried it along with hydromol, double base, Dermol, e45, betnovate, fucidin, fucibet, aveeno there are more but that's all I can think of, off the top of my head

[quote Rabbitheadlights]@jajabanks ... DP takes fexofenadine 120mg once a day but often ends up taking more, I just don't know how to help him currently his hands are all swollen, cracked and bleeding he can't even fasten his trousers like I said 7 years and all they ever prescribe are emollients and anti biotics when it's infected[/quote]
Yes I have those and take 4x180. So awful for him, it really is no fun 😤

Also I got balneum bath oil recommend by the chemist. Still hurts whilst in bath but when get out it really takes the soreness out of it and the itch.

I don't think it looks like urticaria, and you wouldn't typically get split skin with urticaria.

It does sound like a change of job would be the most beneficial thing