Eczema Treatment Care

I don’t have picture, but it’s located on the two middle fingers of my right hand, sometimes spreading to the index finger and pinky finger as well. I think I might have contact dermatitis, or eczema. Growing up as a child, I’ve always had itching problems over my entire body. On my thighs, my arms (especially), my buttocks, by calves, everywhere! But that’s dulled down a bit since I’ve become a teen. I work at Panera bread and we use this sanitizer and we also use powdered and unpowdered latex gloves. We had this sanitizer bottle that would leak when you sprayed it. I was like, “Okay, whatever, this bottle is retarded, but it’s the only one we have…?” So I used it and the sanitizer would drip over the fingers that I sprayed with on my right hand. Sometime later, a few weeks, maybe, I started developing this rash on my fingers. It would itch really badly… but it dulled down a bit for the next few months. Well, a few months ago I started itching in the same place. We had long since gotten a new bottle, but I still had contact with what I thought caused the rash. Well, I don’t use the sanitizer that much anymore (because of my position) and now use the gloves excessively. It seems the more I use any type of glove, the worse it itches (because of the warm, sweaty state the gloves put my hands in.) When I get out of the shower it itches, when I’m just sitting there it itches. Now it’s coming up in little patches on my fingers and also a little on my hand. Around where it itches there are these… bubbles… under the skin and, if I scratch these bubbles open, they have a clear substance that drains from it. I’m constantly aware of my fingers, be it because they are hurting, itching, or swelling. When I wake up in the morning I have finger joint stiffness and what feels like numbness… what should I do?

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