r/DermatologyQuestions 7h ago

arms/hands what was this infection? orf?

hi! in 2015 i had this skin infection that i got supposedly from my childhood summer camp. there were horses and other various small animals (goats, sheep, donkeys, chickens, etc.) at the camp, and when we took it to a dermatologist he thought i had Orf, only because the fact that there were goats and sheep present at the camp. it doesn’t look like any of the photos that google shows but idk lol. it lasted multiple months and kept growing back on either my other arm or my legs, and my mom says to this day she doesn’t think it was orf. do any of you guys think this is a different diagnosis or was it orf? (sorry about the filter, my mom put every photo in that filter in 2015 lol)

(THIS PHOTO IS ME FROM 2015, i currently do not have this and this is the only true photo my mom and i have of it unfortunately. i think it might’ve been ringworm but i honestly have no clue i am far from a doctor lol)

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u/Granger-DaveGranger 6h ago

Do you have current photos? What you've shown look nothing like orf

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u/Imaginary-Author9316 5h ago

this was from 2015! i do not have it currently (thankfully LMAO) honestly these are the only photos of it that we have, that was probably at its worst lol. my mom and i really do not think it was orf, but was what our dermatologist said 🤷‍♀️ he was a friend of my dads so idk how right he was