Feet are on fire what is this rash?

[cherrypiepie]

I get this swollen rash on hot holidays but it has started in the uk in the heatwave.

It's sooo painful my feet are on fire.

I thought prickly heat but it came on over night and my feet aren't noticeably sweaty (obviously I am sure all feet do sweat) and it looks nothing like the images on Google.

It is painful to touch like fire! The white background is home and the darker background is on holiday how it ended up. I can't go to GP.

In pharmacy in greece gave me antihistamines and hydrocortisone did nothing I seem to recall.

Go to a dermatologist when you get back home. (if you are in Greece now).

I have a skin disease and it was diagnosed by having a biopsy.

Yes. It's shit, I know.

It could be prickly heat which can be very itchy and sore, have you tried soaking your feet in cool water?

Hi, not a medic but I had exercise induced vasculitis (EIV) and had over the counter steroids to help it. It is sometimes called Disney Leg as lots of tourists get it after walking 20,000 steps in the heat round the parks in the US.

My DD got it too. We needed hydrocortisone cream. Could it be that?

Hmm... maybe fungal? If you are putting some hydrocortisone on, put an antifungal on as well, as hc by itself could make it worse.

I get hives on my feet when it's really hot and it looks very similar to this. Eurax stops the burning and itching for me.

I got a severe fungal foot infection many years ago that was like this. I think it was exacerbated by wearing leather clog type shoes and getting too hot. It cleared up with a few days application of canestan/hydrocortisone cream (think it was called canestan hc).

I had something similar but it's brought in by cold rather than heat - finally diagnosed as varicose eczema (glamorous!)

Emollients + HC work in the end.

Thanks so much for the replies. I quite like the general health board you are very nice and very helpful! I need to contribute more.

I've been to the GP and they say unless I have the rash when they see me there is nothing they can do and usually I am on holiday so active and walking about in the heat.

I'm home now. Greece was 2016. The photo was 2019 in a cruise in the Caribbean. Usually only on holiday but due the the heatwave I'm getting it here. I've iced them.

I also get plantar fascia was well sporadically so the two together is crippling and wakes me up in the night usually, after a day walking about in flat sandals ( I bough tevas and my lie changed)

I take antihistamines and use locoid cream.

Disney leg sounds plausible!

Me too! Only on my feet and only on holiday. I assumed prickly heat and nothing makes it better except coming home.

@CactiQueen I do think it is hives. But what causes hives?

Is feels like I've been stung by 50 bees.

It's not athlete's foot as it's specifically brought on by heat 30+

My daughter had something similar she ended up on antibiotics it turns out she was allergic to the sliders we had bought her

@ChamomileLawn yours has tiny dots in it which look like prickles so "prickly heat".

Mine is one giants amorphous red throbbing weal.

@cactiqueen I'm going to buy Eurax cream. I've never heard of it before. I think the burning sensation is actually intense itching.

@cherrypiepie I suffered with idiopathic urticaria (chronic hives with no known cause) for years. I found calamine lotion very soothing and was eventually prescribed Telfast 180mg (antihistamine) and Montelukast (an asthma drug but it's a leukotriene inhibitor so helps to stop the reaction) and they transformed my life.
It took a lot of nagging at the drs as although painful and unsightly, it wasn't a dangerous allergic reaction. Fortunately one dr referred me to an immunologist who suggested this combination of meds to me and within 6 weeks the reactions stopped and haven't come back 12yrs later.
I think Montelukast is now prescribed for chronic hives far more commonly so I'd hope you wouldn't have to need a consultant appt to be able to try it.