i started taking vitamin c and vitamin e on monday and i have a bumpy itchy rash on my back. that is only thing i can think of that was different. i have always take calcium and multi vitamin so i know it was not them. i will stop taking the vitamin e and vitamin c and see what happens but be careful and watch for rashes if you use vitamins.

Yes, good point-I'm wondering if it could be from some type of filler in the vit?

My housemate cannot seem to tolerate B vits, he gets a hive rash!
Too bad cause I think he really needs those vitamins!

Usually the rule of thumb is that a drug eruption, or reaction to something
taken orally...(some strawberry/raspberry/food allergies) is not typically
localized to one area of the body. Usually the eruption is more global.

Eruptions that are only in one spot, can indicate something external was
contacted and reacted to. This can be soap used to wash clothes, fabric
softeners, shampoos, body washes, perfumes, etc.

Here is a good website about cutaneous drug reactions:
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsCondit...actionscc.html
notice this section of the website:
There may be something in the vitamins as Buttons suggested, that
you cannot tolerate. Or you have come into contact with something else.

There are rashes associated with viruses, and these are called viral exanthems.
Here is a good article with pictures about them:
http://dermatology.cdlib.org/93/revi...ral/scott.html
scroll down to Pityriasis rosea... which is very common.
While children are most often involved, adults get exanthems too.

Buttons--- look on your Bcomplex list and see if Niacin is in there, as niacin,
not nicotinamide. Niacin causes flushing is some people. The flushing can be blocked by taking an aspirin 1 hr before the niacin.(if a person can safely take aspirin, that is).

yea it could be some thing else mrsd. they sent me home from school today in case it can be catchy i stop taking them anyways just in case it was them. i do have it in other areas i just didnt want to say thank u (((hugs)))

I hope your rash is better today!

Keep us up to date, eh?

thank u mrsd i still have it today but hopefully it will be better tomorow

cheri help me figure out it could be the new sweat shirts i have that is causing the itchy rash thanks cheri

you are welcome Cybil!
I hope that indeed the solution is just as simple as that, and that by washing them first before wear, the rash goes away

I learned about the sensitivity that some people have to newly purchased and unwashed fabrics from my Dad, who would break into rashes immediately that any new clothing came in contact with his skin.......it had to always first be washed in a gentle dtergent and thoroughly rinsed

hope you rash goes bye bye real quickly!

We have found in this house, that soap residues can cling to clothing..
and cause rashes... so I double rinse everything and do not use softeners.
When Bounce first came out, I saw enormous numbers of rashes... but Bounce has changed the formula some I think. But I still don't use it.

never mind