Re: Contact Dermatitis

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@lolakimono wrote:

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@Noel7
Horror story alert!

I have had this multiple times. In the most recent edition of the contact dermatitis horror files, I have two memorable stories.

1) Yoga teacher used essential oils on us during savasana. I was wearing a tank top and so my shoulders were exposed. She came around with a citrus oil blended with some other oil, and then I ran some errands. What she did not do was DILUTE the oil with a carrier oil, and so I ended up with a photo burn AND an allergic reaction to the oil. Not wanting to go on steroids, I waited it out for a few days...and then I ended up with antibiotics PLUS steroids, PLUS a topical cream. I had octopus like marks from the handprint, and it took all summer to heal the burn marks.

2) I used Wen oils on my arms/legs, as Chaz had advised, and I felt a bit "warm" during the school day. By the end of the day, when I was headed to an evening event at school, my arms were blistered. I again ended up on oral steroids, an antibiotic, and cortisone cream. This reaction was so severe that it took three weeks to clear up.

The moral of the story is that the longer you wait, the more serious this could get and the longer it could take your body to bounce back.

@lolakimono

How awful! My daughter is that sensitive, too. I’m so sorry.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Noel7, we always had pets. At first of course there were only flea collars - which didn’t work and many pets are allergic to. We had one kitty that got a huge abscess on her neck that kinda never healed. When I lived with a roomate we had 1-2 dogs and 3 cats between us at various times and a large grassy back yard - flea heaven!

The only thing that existed was malathion. We would dip the animals (diluted of course), spray the yard (diluted), and that was pretty much all you could do. I used to get SO desperate I sprayed myself with it.

The oddest thing - since menopause, fleas ignore me. I almost never, ever get a bite now even if I’m around an animal that has them.

Our kitty is indoor/outdoor and the flea meds are so good these days that she has none and neither do we.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Moonchilde

Now if we could only get rid of mosquitoes.

10sluvr · ‎03-10-2010

i get it easily, too. my drs. said to start taking an allergy pill, right away. i take claritin D and then go to the dr. shot and pills will take care of it. i make appt. right away because i know it will spread fast.

i hope the healing has you back to new.

febe1 · ‎01-22-2012

@Moonchilde wrote:
OMG @febe1, that just sounds ghastly! Feel better soon!

Thanks, @Moonchilde, it was really bad, and something I've never had before. The Dermatologist was almost sure it was going to be, are you ready, subepidermal Vesiculobullous Dermatosis with Neutrophilia. Two biopsies came back negative.

Three weeks and absolutely nothing. Which I just hate. Something like that and no idea of what caused it.

It was very painful. My foot swelled, was all hot and red and felt like a hot sword was going through it. I took all the pain pills plus Tylenol after.

Everything's fine today, though. I just hope it never returns. You can't imagine how BIG a blister can get.

I hope everybody with blisters gets rid of them quick! Thanks for good wishes, @Moonchilde.

wonderfulworld · ‎12-05-2012

@febe1 wrote:
@Noel7, I had for the first time ever real blad blistering on my foot and up to my leg calf. First appeared red spotches. Then after big blisters all over the top of my foot. I mean big as a walnut (two of them) and about 20 small blisters.
Wow, I've been going through it for three weeks now. The Derm thought it was auto immune with a long name which means blistering. They did two biopsies, and it was neither auto immune.
The Derm did another blood work to make sure no auto immune anti-bodies, which will take a week.
After CUTTING the two big blisters, they put me on 40 prednesone to dry them out. They gave me pain pills, cortisone cream, and some kind of alum. powder which I bathed my foot in.
Scabs formed over the cut skin and all the little blisters dried up. Healing is going on in my foot after three weeks.
I've gone from 30 prednesone to 20 this week and ten next week.
Pathology says no auto immune. If bloodwork is negative also, they said they will just never know what caused it.
I've seen some of the bills for this and they're over 5,000. And I'm ending up with not knowing anything and inconclusive.

This is not you, I know, but it's strange I should see blisters today. Wow, oh wow!

I know someone who had something very similar on her foot and it turned out to be pustular psoriasis. Light treatments helped a lot. I hope you get to the bottom of this.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

I tested on myself, my favorite hand lotion, Hand Food from Target, and nothing. No itching, swelling or redness. IMO that lends credence to it being mosquito bites, which hadn't occurred to me at the onset.

Still using the Cortisone cream and that's helping.

febe1 · ‎01-22-2012

@wonderfulworld wrote:
@febe1 wrote:
@Noel7, I had for the first time ever real blad blistering on my foot and up to my leg calf. First appeared red spotches. Then after big blisters all over the top of my foot. I mean big as a walnut (two of them) and about 20 small blisters.
Wow, I've been going through it for three weeks now. The Derm thought it was auto immune with a long name which means blistering. They did two biopsies, and it was neither auto immune.
The Derm did another blood work to make sure no auto immune anti-bodies, which will take a week.
After CUTTING the two big blisters, they put me on 40 prednesone to dry them out. They gave me pain pills, cortisone cream, and some kind of alum. powder which I bathed my foot in.
Scabs formed over the cut skin and all the little blisters dried up. Healing is going on in my foot after three weeks.
I've gone from 30 prednesone to 20 this week and ten next week.
Pathology says no auto immune. If bloodwork is negative also, they said they will just never know what caused it.
I've seen some of the bills for this and they're over 5,000. And I'm ending up with not knowing anything and inconclusive.

This is not you, I know, but it's strange I should see blisters today. Wow, oh wow!
I know someone who had something very similar on her foot and it turned out to be pustular psoriasis. Light treatments helped a lot. I hope you get to the bottom of this.

Hi, @wonderfulworld. I looked it up and saw the pictures. My blisters were not filled with pus - they had a clear fluid.

My blisters were both similar and different: there were small ones all over with two big huge ones (walnut size) on the instep.

It was weird how it was on my right foot going up to the calf, and a few even up to the thigh where they did the biopsies. None on my torso, face, arms. The blisters were hot and the leg was hot and could only limp around on it. I thought it was shingles, but it wasn't.

Thanks for your input, @wonderfulworld. Pus filled blisters sound even worse than mine.

wonderfulworld · ‎12-05-2012

@febe1 wrote:
@wonderfulworld wrote:
@febe1 wrote:
@Noel7, I had for the first time ever real blad blistering on my foot and up to my leg calf. First appeared red spotches. Then after big blisters all over the top of my foot. I mean big as a walnut (two of them) and about 20 small blisters.
Wow, I've been going through it for three weeks now. The Derm thought it was auto immune with a long name which means blistering. They did two biopsies, and it was neither auto immune.
The Derm did another blood work to make sure no auto immune anti-bodies, which will take a week.
After CUTTING the two big blisters, they put me on 40 prednesone to dry them out. They gave me pain pills, cortisone cream, and some kind of alum. powder which I bathed my foot in.
Scabs formed over the cut skin and all the little blisters dried up. Healing is going on in my foot after three weeks.
I've gone from 30 prednesone to 20 this week and ten next week.
Pathology says no auto immune. If bloodwork is negative also, they said they will just never know what caused it.
I've seen some of the bills for this and they're over 5,000. And I'm ending up with not knowing anything and inconclusive.

This is not you, I know, but it's strange I should see blisters today. Wow, oh wow!
I know someone who had something very similar on her foot and it turned out to be pustular psoriasis. Light treatments helped a lot. I hope you get to the bottom of this.
Hi, @wonderfulworld. I looked it up and saw the pictures. My blisters were not filled with pus - they had a clear fluid.

My blisters were both similar and different: there were small ones all over with two big huge ones (walnut size) on the instep.

It was weird how it was on my right foot going up to the calf, and a few even up to the thigh where they did the biopsies. None on my torso, face, arms. The blisters were hot and the leg was hot and could only limp around on it. I thought it was shingles, but it wasn't.

Thanks for your input, @wonderfulworld. Pus filled blisters sound even worse than mine.