pomphlyx....does anyone have it

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my eldest son has just started with pomphlyx...or at least thats what the doc thinks it is. Does anyone else have this or know of a treatment to help.

I have pompholyx eczema from time to time. Don't pick at it. It's not a blister to be burst.

I've found washing and drying my hands properly is a great help, and moisturising properly afterwards. I always wear gloves to wash up and garden.

OMG - I get this every summer and didn't know what it was. Nowhere near as severe as the pic in the link, but lots of tiny blisters on hands and fingers that then burst and leave little rings of dry skin. Have been ignoring it so far and it hasn't been as itchy as previous years, but might try to get that cream for it as it does look a bit horrible. Hope your DS gets better soon.

I have suffered since I was a teenager on my hands, but never on my feet. I have it all the time in one patch or another, at the moment it's my little finger. It have affected the skin on my hands, I have the hands of an old woman, and the nail on the affected finger has gone ridgy before... sounds lovely hey.. BUT, as another poster said, it is fairly easy to keep it under control, if you get into a routine with emmolient and eczema cream.
The times when I really suffer are the times I go away and forget my cream, for example.
I put self tan on last week and left some under my engagement ring by accident.. ouch the next morning.. applying sun cream to DS is painful too..

Just be sensible, and I hope your LO grows out of it, mine is no where near as bad as it was when I was a teenager, my hands were in bandages.

Good luck :-)

yes sorry bright...i spelled it wrongly.

he has been given a strong steroid cream...mometasone and daktacort. Just feel as though the docs are hedging their bets ..antifungal and steroid.his hands look all bumpy and he says its really itchy.