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Anyone good at rashes/chronic skin complaints - visual diagnosis and suggestions for treatment please!

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ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 21/06/2022 18:52

I've always been prone to mild-moderate skin complaints and was an eczematous child, have had really persistent athletes foot and suffer in the heat with blisters on fingers and feet - varying diagnoses for the same thing over the years so could be pompholyx? More athlete's foot? Dishydrotic eczema? Cowpox? 'Idiopathic pruritis' (doc speak for 'weird itchy rash we can't identify', as far as I can tell from the root words)?

This is my latest. It's a patch of itchy red spots/patches on my inner arm, almost certainly something to do with where I rest my arm on my desk at work and/or where I cross my arms when asleep. It flares up and dies down but never fully goes away - it's been there for nearly 3 years and itches like mad. It's never bad enough to brave the horrendous booking system at the GP and the pharmacist is vague about it. It can be soothed but not cured with dermol, but burns with hydrocortisone or with anti-fungal cream; no difference at all with oat baths etc. I've done my best. Any suggestions from the photo? Thanks in advance.

Anyone good at rashes/chronic skin complaints - visual diagnosis and suggestions for treatment please!
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Walkingalot · 21/06/2022 20:00

Looks like hives to me, an allergy to something you've been in contact with. I had it on my stomach and turns out it was the nickel from a belt although I have no idea how it got through to my skin. It looked like mild burn blisters, as yours does in the picture, but I knew I hadn't been burnt. Antihistamines were prescribed.

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 21/06/2022 21:16

Thank you. I'd tend to agree, except it's so long-lasting. Unless I'm allergic to my own arm, I can't see what would make it come up like that and stay for so long.

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Purpleavocado · 21/06/2022 21:19

Have you tried eumovate?

RedCarsGoFaster · 21/06/2022 21:30

If it's something you're in frequent contact with, it's entirely possible it's not recovering long enough to die away completely.

Do you ever have periods where it's less severe? Such as going on holiday so you're away from your daily routines?

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 22/06/2022 06:51

I don't know - haven't been on holiday for ages! We are going away this year so perhaps we shall see...

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ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 22/06/2022 06:52

Purpleavocado · 21/06/2022 21:19

Have you tried eumovate?

No, but I will give it a go.

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