What is this rash called?
Posted by: Alan in Contact Dermatitis, tags: Called, Rash, This
Okay, so on Tuesday night, I was at a friend’s house and I noticed that my forehead felt kind of bumpy. So I look and I see little bumps on my forehead, sort of like hives. They weren’t red or anything; just the same color of my skin. This is normal, because I’m allergic to pets or furry things, so I get hives all the time. I took some Zyrtec when I got home, and I went to bed.
So the next morning, I woke up and the bumps were now ALL OVER MY FACE. My eyes and my lips excluded, my face and my left ear were covered in these bumps. The ones on my lower cheek and jaw bones were a reddish color, but the rest looked like raised skin.
I went to the doctor later that day, and they concluded that I had contact dermatitis. They prescribed a steroid cream that would heal my rash in 6-7 days. I put it on all the infected places twice yesterday.
However, when I woke up this morning, I found that it spread to my right ear, most of my neck, and some of my chest. As the day went on, I saw that I also had a few bumps around my elbow creases and two or three on my hands.
Now, I have concluded that there is no way that this is contact dermatitis. Contact dermatitis means coming in contact with something, but I didn’t rub my face all over a eucalyptus leaf or something, so I have no idea how it could be contact-related. Plus, if it spread, clearly it’s not a contact-related rash.
I have a few pictures that I took that you can see at the following link.
Two are of my left cheek, and the third is of my forehead.
http://feed4.tinypic.com/rss.php?ua=bk1AVnrTlDoyIcay78ZzaQ%3D%3D
I really don’t expect to get any results whatsoever, but I figured this was worth a shot.
Any and all help and answers are greatly appreciated!
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June 23rd, 2010 at 1:47 am
Damn.. I couldn’t pull up the picture. But, since you say that you have bumps but do not describe scaling or blisters/oozing, it would be unlikely to be a regular contact dermatitis. There are such things as a dermal contact dermatitis, however, to certain chemicals, including airborn allergens. Since this seems to be in the areas of airborne allergens, it is possible that it’s a dermal contact allergy, for which the treatment would be oral antihistamines. The cortisone cream would help, too.