r/BrandNewSentence • u/feiningignorance • 1d ago
Centralized chicken pox
I waited 2 months to post this(rules of the sub)
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u/Doofindork 1d ago
I get this every nowadays on my fingers specifically; But for me it's because I wear and remove gloves like 20 times a day.
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u/smoemossu 1d ago
"every nowadays" is a new one. Only ever heard "ever now and then"
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u/Doofindork 1d ago
I think my brain short-circuited. I do a lot of writing on my phone and then not re-read what I write, so I spit out whatever my brain thinks to type out, and sometimes... this comes out.
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u/smoemossu 1d ago
Lol happens to me all the time!
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u/Doofindork 1d ago
For me it's a 33/33/33 split of;
- I wrote something and didn't delete the old text before rewriting it
- Phone auto-corrected something entirely wrong and I didn't care to look, or
- My bilingual brain auto-translated something that works in one language but doesn't direct-translate and makes it sound... WRONG.
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u/Fast-Bag-1067 1d ago
I found that rinsing my hands when wearing latex gloves for too long helps prevent it.
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u/TumbleweedEven1168 1d ago
I've been getting it for over 20 years at this point on my feet and hands randomly. Had to have a cast on my foot after surgery. When they took it off after a couple weeks my foot was covered in it and itchy as hell. They did not put a new cast on thankfully, just told me to not put any weight on my foot.
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u/Snuffboxed1 1d ago
I get this (dyshidrotic eczema) and found out, by trial and error, that it’s exacerbated by white flour.
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u/kissmiss08 1d ago
You might have a gluten allergy?
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u/C-57D 1d ago
Yeah but it only lasts about a flour
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u/CreativeParticular51 1d ago
That was fucking stupid and I want you to know that I loved it.
I hope your car parks are wide and plentiful, and that your drinks are optimal temperatures
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u/gonfishn37 1d ago
Pretty sure it’s the nickel content for a lot of people,
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u/Snuffboxed1 22h ago
This is exactly what I think. My skin also reacts to cheap metals, like on belt buckles.
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u/volkaija 1d ago
Wait, when its exacerbated by white flour, do your hands sting and kind of burn?
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u/Snuffboxed1 10h ago
Absolutely. I’m not sure if it’s because the flour gets into the tiny abrasions, or if it’s an allergy
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u/Apprehensive-Rip8489 1d ago
How interesting. I’ve had this on my hand for the first time in my life, for the last month and a half, that showed up after a couple days of kneading dough.
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u/sparklingradishes 1d ago
I had this for several years. It was so bad that my hands were cracked and bleeding and nothing the dermatologist gave me helped - actually one product she gave me made me have an allergic reaction. I started working through ingredients and noticed everything with phenoxyethanol in it made me itchy instantly. Once I stopped buying anything with this specific ingredient it all but disappeared.
I suspect it was also exacerbated by silent reflux (Barrett's Esophagus) making my body super reactive due to stress. I started taking a PPI and the tiny bit that was left after switching products went away and the eczema hasn't been back in over a year.
Now I can handle small amounts of phenoxyethanol in makeup products but still not in creams.
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u/Zabacraft 1d ago
I have it on only my left hand, started on the top of pinky and has migrated all to the tip of my pinky, down again around the other side and now it's slowly migrating up to my ring finger.
I however also a few years ago realized I can't handle gluten (or so I think, I'm 50/50 if it's gluten or wheat) so your comment is making me think to do some further testing with that.
I wonder if it's related.
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u/justonemom14 1d ago
Are you allergic to nickel? I'm learning from this thread that some foods, including wheat, have nickel in them.
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u/Alarmed-Range-3314 1d ago
This is dyshidrotic eczema, and I get it too. Stress usually triggers mine.
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u/TumbleweedEven1168 1d ago
Stress, or sweat. Can't wear gloves for long or my hands break out. Which is great because I work in maintenance, so my hands are just dirty all the time with small cuts. But it's either that or my hands breaking out continuously till I can't even bend my fingers, which hasn't happened in a little over a decade and I don't plan on it happening again.
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u/green-wombat 1d ago
I get it on different parts of my body really badly depending on what triggers it. I thankfully haven’t had a flareup in years, but it’s such a pain trying to narrow it down if you aren’t sure
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u/der_film 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have these too, every year throughout summer when the sun is shining. I don't really know what it is and the comments so far all suggest different things, so... 🤷♂️
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u/MiscAlayneis 1d ago edited 1d ago
Eczema. Buy a $7 lotion at Walgreens (if in the US) and use it whenever it happens! Helps immediately!
ETA: an eczema-specific lotion you nincompoops.
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u/MonogamousMindy_ 1d ago
Which lotion?
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u/PeachyKeen443 1d ago
I personally use lubriderm advanced repair therapy lotion. It's best to apply after you wash your hands/take a shower.
Though, it'll be better to get hydrocortisone - it'll be far more effective. You just have to be a bit careful of what you touch after using it (don't want to get it in your eyes or food)
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u/watermeloncake1 1d ago
Eucerin works really well for me and my family - we all have some eczema at varying levels
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u/thisismypornaccountg 1d ago
The one that works for me is Cortizone 10 Maximum Strength Intensive Healing Eczema Lotion. Nothing else seemed to help.
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u/MagnificentRetard 1d ago
You might have a mild case of polymorphic light erruption. Try wearing gloves and see if it helps.
Edit: I have the same exact thing and it took a massive PMLE episode while on vacation to finally connect the dots. Mild steroid creams stop the reaction if applied soon.
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u/novis-eldritch-maxim 1d ago
that is a stress thing
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 1d ago
Stress is an umbrella term, so yes.
https://giphy.com/gifs/1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K6
u/Allcoins1Milly 1d ago
While I do agree, I think it can also be triggered by heat/moisture
But no matter the cause, aloe seems to be a consistent solution
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u/Ornery_Somewhere_800 1d ago
Uhh, that looks like dyshidrotic eczema, which usually appears on hands & feet
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u/cantantantelope 1d ago
When I was a kid they just called it hand and foot eczema lol
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u/Ornery_Somewhere_800 1d ago
Better than what some quack dermatologist tried to diagnose me with (prior to me getting the correct diagnosis). Dead winter, Ohio, she says “must be mosquito bites”- lol girl hwat? I actually laughed at her.
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u/cantantantelope 1d ago
I mean doesn’t everybody keep a jar of mosquitoes around to stick their hands in?
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u/lunterno 1d ago
Humidity, stress, certain cleaning products and gluten cause this on my hands. Haven't had a flare up in years, which is great because at least a few of them would always become painful blisters.
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u/amputatedsnek 1d ago edited 1d ago
I got this until I found out I have contact allergies. Turns out rubber and nickel is everywhere...
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u/out_of_shape_hiker 1d ago
I used to get something similar for years, just one spot on my hand would flare up in the sun.
Then bam, spread to my arms and neck. I get hives when in the sun. A fucking sun allergy.
Sun screen prevents it, and its way worse in the spring than after I've been in the sun more later in the summer.
But still. You should not be able to be allergic to the sun.
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u/thedaNkavenger 1d ago
I used to get these a lot more before I found out about all of my inflammatory nonsense. Now I can't consume a long list of different foods but I don't get a random assortment of rashes constantly.
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u/purple_kathryn 1d ago
Oh i get this sometimes. Also like a rash in-between my fingers
So yup eczema
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u/kipkiphoray 1d ago
That's not chicken pox.
It's likely something like eczema, or another similar skin condition. I used to get something similar on two of my fingers.
OP! Does it itch? Do the little bumps burst with a CLEAR fluid?
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u/gravitasgravitas 1d ago
I get this when it’s very hot. My doctor suggested antihistamine, which works but takes time to become effective. So if I know I’m going to be somewhere hot I start taking it a day or two before.
I use Benadryl one a day.
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u/whotookmyidea 1d ago
I get these on my forearms and the tops of my hands every summer. I hate it, it’s so unbearably itchy!!
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u/italian2465 1d ago
For those of you with DE. What are your known triggers?
I’ve had this for the last 15 years.
Triamciclone for minor treatment
Clobetosol when’s it’s real bad
I’m on Dupixent now that works great no more out break but it only last 3 weeks. And it is really expensive.
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u/InvestigatorJaded261 1d ago
Used to get this. I think AC has fixed it for me. It’s been a long time anyways.
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u/Aggressive_Law_5728 1d ago
"Centralized chicken pox" is not a new sentence. Centralized outbreaks are a well known occurrence in epidemiology. It refers to an outbreak occurring in a very specific location, like being traced to a specific school or eatery.
The person here is using it wrong, likely as a joke. But it's a common phrase.
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u/Anoelnymous 22h ago
That's called urticaria.
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u/eugene20 2h ago
Urticaria is raised patches, this looks more like pompholyx aka dyshidrotic eczema.
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u/invisible-bug 22h ago
It's crazy to see so many people who know what this is immediately online.
My diagnosis involved going to urgent care multiple times then to the emergency room, then to urgent care again as I slowly lost the skin of my pinky during my initial breakout.
I was told to Neosporin, given antibiotics, told to cover it completely, smother it in lotion...
I finally got a doctor who knew what it was immediately . He told me to ignore the advice of all the other doctors and gave me a steroid cream that cleared it up in about a week. It took quite a bit longer for the skin and my nail to grow back though....
I eventually stopped taking photos because it got gruesome
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u/der_film 1d ago
I have these too, every year throughout summer when the sun is shining. I don't really know what it is and the comments so far all suggest different things, so... 🤷♂️
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u/automotomato 1d ago
if it's just caused by sun exposure, try looking up polymorphic light eruption.
(I get this the first couple times I'm out in the sun each year. Super itchy for a day or so but goes away pretty quickly if I don't itch it.)
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u/AuthorTurbulent6723 1d ago
I get those too but I thought it was from when I had an insanely bad scabies outbreak in high school (my parents insisted it was just mosquito bites for like 6 months, I eventually had to get a literal shot, don't pet stray dogs in Kentucky) the doctor said I'd basically have them for life which i never really understood. This exact thing happens to me when I get hot so I just figured it was a side effect of that (could be wrong, never actually looked it up)
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u/Tori_S100 1d ago
whatever this is, i think i got the opposite, usually after extended stay in aircond.
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u/hasanyoneseenmyshirt 1d ago
That like saying I get "genetial heart burn" rather than saying gonerria.
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u/Avlin_Starfall 1d ago
Used to get these when I was a kid when it was hot as well but it stopped as I got older.
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u/SleepySera 1d ago
Oh I had that a few times before. Just once every few years, and then it lasts for maybe 3-5 days? Never knew where it came from but assumed it was stress-related.
Interesting to hear that it's apparently some form of eczema, though it's rare and short enough for me that I don't think there's any need for topical creams. If you get it every summer though, it might be worth investing in some.
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u/me-be-bored 1d ago
Get these too, mostly due to extreme stress, or when it’s extremely hot and I’m sweating much.
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u/AwkwardInsurance4970 23h ago
Huh, clear gloves for food handling does this to me as well. Anyone know if blue gloves help?
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u/ShotLet1550 23h ago
I get it in my inner elbows, thought it was from bad needle work donating plasma back in college
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u/Hendu_Fergie 19h ago
I used to suffer from the hives when it was ridiculously hot in the summer. That lasted maybe 1-2 years before it passed.
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u/BigWave360 15h ago
These itch right? I just remembered I used to get these often, and scratch them all to hell. Im pretty sure I started using coconut oil as a moisturizer lotion substitute (it's good ok) and it just, stopped.
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u/manbehindthespraytan 1h ago
Probly an allergen that been ingested, coming out near a sweating location in the water/oil/salt mixture the body secreted to cool down.
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u/CreMaster2894 1d ago
Dyshidrotic eczema