Eczema Treatment Care

I got a new tattoo on July 4th. This is also my first. I’ve been trying my best to follow the rules in new ink care. I’ve been using A&D ointment, keeping it covered outside and at work. Two nights ago I started itching around my tat. Now, I have these little pimply looking, EXTREMELY itchy bumps around the outside of my butterfly, NOT on the inked skin but around it. I went to Urgent Care because my doctors office was closed and my tattoo artist is out of state on a tattoo road trip. These bumps are red splotches with white headed little pimple things…I’m taking an antibiotic for what the U.C. doctor calls “mild contact dermatitis” and benadryl for the itching, as well as calamine to help dry the spots up but it only seems to be spreading slowly but surely….any ideas???

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