WTF is this? Dr Google has no answers. PHOTOS!!

[mawbroon]

I woke up with these rust colour marks all over my hands.

I haven't eaten anything different to normal and I haven't touched anything out of the ordinary.

I went to sleep and they were there when I woke up. How????

Rusty zip from bedding?

Have you handled any dodgy cash stained from a bank robbery

It could be food related.

eg lemon juice or salt water etc.

I have had this a couple of times, and it comes up a few hours after food prep.

Do you hold your toothbrush in the smudgy hand (second photo)?

How weird

I get it sometimes too, and it doesn’t wash off

One day it’s there, then it’s gone again.

I had this last year, it resolved itself in a couple of days but never did get to bottom of it. Apparently citrus can sometimes cause it and I did have lemon the night before but had never reacted before.

Cornettoninja just might have found it 😲😲

I checked my armpits and found these marks! Excuse the hairy oxters 😆

Ties in with it being sweat related. My palms were quite sweaty when I woke up

I’ve had this! It took a few days to disappear but was definitely not staining and no amount of scrubbing made a difference. Nothing on tissue after rubbing either. If I remember correctly there was an old post on gransnet full of people it had happened to too.

I’d forgotten about it til now. It hasn’t happened again.

How strange OP, is it anywhere else other than your hands and armpits?

Similar thread here not sure if it’s any help?

@LeftieLucy

I’ve had this! It took a few days to disappear but was definitely not staining and no amount of scrubbing made a difference. Nothing on tissue after rubbing either. If I remember correctly there was an old post on gransnet full of people it had happened to too.

I’d forgotten about it til now. It hasn’t happened again.

Me too! It was years ago and the exact same colour. So strange

I had this last week too! No idea what it was!

I get this from peeling sweet potato or butternut squash!

In your armpits too Jjjaaakkk??

🤔🤔

From cutting peppers. It stains your skin.

@EveningOverRooftops

From cutting peppers. It stains your skin.

And it doesn’t scrub off. Just fades

I was going to ask if you'd been doing any gardening but you're unlikely to have rubbed your armpits on anything at this time of year.

Me too! I had this a few months ago, rust coloured palms just appeared one day and faded away over a couple of days! Really odd! Google did reveal that it is 'a thing' that some people get with no known cause.

@mawbroon

No answers on the staining but DH has granuloma annulare and his main problem area is the armpits. It looks exactly the same as yours, albeit he's much hairy and I imagine yours smell better 🤣

Ah oh my god this happened to me a few months ago! I hasn't touched anything new or different u.e put on make up, use self tan etc. It faded after a day then disappeared completely. I never found out what it was! Apparently if you use any kind of orange food colouring or spices it can cause it to come out in your skin. I just went with that explanation because I put a load of peri peri salt in my chips the night before

Any other symptoms? Fatigue, low mood, loss of appetite, increased thirst?

Soy sauce can cause this colour staining.

This happened to me before and I never figured out what the cause was but it washed off after a day or two.

Do you happen to have a poinsettia plant in the house?

They are part of the euphorbia family, the sap of which can cause marks like that.

Covid symptoms.

It's just weird op. Sorry no other input I'm flummoxed