your rash sounds awful. sorry you have to endure it.

this may be a way out thought....i wonder if it could have anything to do with a parasite. IF that might be the case maybe an infectious disease dr could help.
this may really be out there. i've just been home watching some episodes of Monster Inside Me.

try googling to see if you can find a picture of your rash.
hope it goes away very soon.

Oh, anyone who can watch that show, Monster inside Me.... is one brave soul! I've only seen a couple of episodes. The toxoplasmosis one and one other which I have conveniently forgotten already... sigh :o

Lately the research just into bacteria is dunning. Over 1000 different species just in your bellybutton, and about 900 different ones in your mouth!

I love monster inside me :D but a bit warped in my personality.

I've always washed my hands well after handling pet food/treats/ even people food. Catholic school upbringing, wash hands before and after eating.

But whatever it is, does seem to be something in the house. It's clearing up well wearing the gloves, but this morning they'd fallen off when I was sleeping and I didn't immediately put them back on. After about an hour they were getting worse again, so scrubbed them down, put on the cream and tossed them back into the gloves. The little bit they were reacting is gone again now.

So gloves it is for the next few weeks till I can get an allergy test done :( painful, ugly and aggravating, but still not the end of the world... Well maybe not, depends on what I'm allergic to.... Please oh please not the iPad!!!

Nickel allergy is a real thing. We have a long thread about it on the General forum. Recently the electronics have been found to have lots of nickel in them and on the cases.
The soap you use to wash your bedding and clothes with can be very harsh too. Try a second rinse and watch what comes out in that rinse water! You will be amazed. We use the sensitive Tide now, the one in the white bottle.

Some people react to the dryer softener sheets too. When Bounce first came out years ago, mothers were bringing their children to me with a red rash from the neck down! Then it was reformulated supposedly and the epidemic stopped.

Well it turns out, it's eczema, one normally seen in young children :rolleyes:. So nice that all the doctors have fancy ways of telling me I'm immature :p. Juvenile heart flutter, childhood eczema (at 35 years of age) what's next whooping cough?

Still painful as all get out, as the derma says it will be worse as an adult that in childhood. But it also means I will be wearing cotton gloves for at least the next year, washing my hair with baby shampoo, and using only special 'non-soap' soaps (or the baby shampoo) and special moisturizers, ointments and the steriod creams. And it is making me more reactive to the copaxone injections, which if that worsens it might be time to think of an alternative.

Well at least it's not measles, or cancer (didn't know that was a possibility until they told me the results of the biopsy) so that's good :D and well, now I can say I'm not just young of heart but young of body too :p

Just a short note of irony, after asking if whooping cough was next (seriously haven't heard of many cases of it in a long long time) wouldn't you know in the news during my trip to OH, there was a whooping cough outbreak at a local preschool :eek: Hopefully I didn't run into any carriers while I was out and about in town...