Comments on: Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) – Pictures, Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

By: Kelly Vanlandingham

Kelly Vanlandingham — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:46:12 +0000

Take a look at (link removed)

My wife suffered since early 2017 with a sudden outbreak on her hands and feet. We implemented a treatment plan based upon Carole Knight’s recommendations. Her skin is now clear (though she is still experiencing some itching).

By: Liddy

Liddy — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:11:59 +0000

As a kid about 10yrs old, I started getting this condition. My parents bought a new/old house in the N.E.. It was water blisters on my hands and feet. I would scratch till they popped. Then they crusted over, and looked ugly. I also sweated profusely : arm pits, hand, feet. It caused me a lot of stress. Our family doctor had no explanation. But, ‘food allergies’. I stopped eating everything- but meat. Then I moved, and it just went away almost overnight. I’m a senior now, and my food allergies have come back. But I get the water blisters like measles-all over my body, instead of on my hands and feet. I get itchy too. I don’t sweat profusely. NOW I only eat: salads, potatoes, coffee, tea, water, soups, boiled seafood and baked chicken. Anything that is lactose and gluten free. Yeah! FYI: My gallbladder recently filled up with sludge before this all started, and my stomach blowed up like a balloon. I take Pro/Pre biotics, enzymes before I eat, and multi vitamins and Krill oil=DAILY. If I don’t, I spiral out of control all over again. My advice to everyone: eliminate foods one by one and see if that works. If you work in the yard or house with chemicals: wear gloves. Use Green Tea bath shower gell once a month: head to toe. Buy good stuff only. Caress bath soap for bathing. If you itch: use Aloe gell. Wear white cotton gloves for hands, and white cotton socks for feet break out. But apply Aloe before gloves or sock-wait for it to dry.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 05:52:22 +0000

SO SORRY (& I mean it!): That is, to hear your guys’ and gals’ stories. Mine is a similar one. A whole bunch of suffering that nonsufferers of this condition have no clue about. Then the difficulties of differential misdiagnosis compound the frustration.

POMPHOLYX: Like one of the posts indicated, my symptoms look and feel way too similar to the way you all describe for it to not be pompholyx (*like in pictures 1-4). If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, then…?

MEDS: In my case, I was diagnosed the past year with ringworm for a small circle of bumps at the base of my middle left finger. But the 2% Miconazole Nitrate cream did little to relieve either the itching or the small red bumps. What helped?
1. Walgreens brand of atlete’s foot cream “terbinafine hydrochloride cream 1%” to help with fungal part of infection
2. “Mupirocin ointment USP 2%” to help with bacterial part of infection (*in my case, secondary to my initial ringworm lesions that freaked out after a. they spread to the adjacent ring finger and were scratched open when i realized too late that the nitrate cream wasn’t helping any and b. when cutting multiple kiwi fruit and the juice irritated the heck out of the bumps turned mini-tapioca-looking-blisters)

Hope this might help someone out there…

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 05:46:46 +0000

POMPHOLYX: Like one of the posts indicated, my symptoms look and feel way too similar to the way you all describe for it to not be pompholyx (*like in picture 3). If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, then…?

Hope this might help someone out there…

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:12:13 +0000

In reply to Lorna.Lorna, I have it on my forhead,so I guess it can spread.

By: Angela Armstrong

Angela Armstrong — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:18:17 +0000

In reply to Suzie.I read here you could soak your hands in a white vinegar solution or Plantain infused with olive oil and lavender and other oils. Or even soaking hands and feet in a salt solution could help, these are more natural remedies that are out there.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:52:17 +0000

I have had this problem for 9 months now, I am a hairdresser, had patch testing done, I am allergic to ammonium sulphate , Nickle and ppd, I have tried so many creams, starts to clear up then starts again. The itch is unbelievable, I get relief under really hot water, but then that dries my skin out, I really don’t think I will ever be free of this

By: Sol

Sol — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 02:49:49 +0000

I haven’t been diagnosed but the symptoms and images match too well.
Mine didn’t start until I worked at a restaurant that used bleach water to clean.
It starts like tiny, barely visible bubbles, like clusters of fish eggs. Then it itches and gets inflamed. My finger swells and my skin gets taut and shiny and red. When they pop, there’s so much serum. it still itches and my skin dries out so much that it cracks. It leaves little holes if I itch too hard and pop the bubbles.
Sometimes the itching is so bad I scratch myself raw on my denim or another rough fabric.
Hot water feels sooooooooo good on it (while burning the unaffected area)
Wish I could post pics and show

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:53:55 +0000

Has anyone tried soaking hands and/or feet in apple cider vinegar?

By: Mari Rodriguez

Mari Rodriguez — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:00:59 +0000

I have finally found what I have on my palms. The same burning blisters. I’ve had it for a year and couldn’t find the diagnosis. All the dermatologist kept telling me was that my palm was sweaty.. But couldn’t understand why all of a sudden I was getting these blisters. Sometimes they burn so bad I have to soak my hand in cold water.. can’t b believe there is no cure. I need help to see what had been working to stop them from spreading. It started as one small blister now when it happens it takes over the whole palm. Help….