Palm of my Hand is Dry, Cracks, & Itchy

[sadeqq]

I am a healthy 28 yr old male. No medical history I am perfectly healthy aside from my right hand.

I have had a persistent dry right palm for over 3 years now, and it has recently gotten painful and extra dry. I wulod describe it as dry, rough, thickened, cracked skin on my palm. I do not have health insurance so that is why I have not been able to go get it looked at yet.

Looking closely it is dry, has cracks, itches. It makes it hard to do any type of physical work because if any dirt or debris gets in the cracks it irritates even more and hurts a bit more too.

I think it is eczema or something but I am not sure. Any suggestions on a diagnosis for this? It is on my right hand palm and on my right hand fingers in smaller areas. Please see the picture attached.  I work from my computer so it is not like I do hard physical labor to cause this.

Please please if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.

[Oscar000]

i also work out alot doing body building, that i dehydrate myself

[Oscar000]

Its gone away so far so im set. herbalists use liquid substances, so i soak my hands in the medicine. A MD has told me before that my eczema is curable(controllable) with gummy tablets that she prescribed me. but by that time my eczema when away.

[jemma116]

Althletes foot is a funal disorder.  The fungus thrives in warm and humid conditions. So it is important to dry well inbetween the toes and apply antifungal cream and/or antifungal powder.

As for your hands.  Do not use normal soaps because this soap dries the skin too much.  As well as as using the mediction that is helping (if it is not, then you may need a different one), use highly moisture creams.  You can buy cotton gloves and apply a lot of moisture cream and the gloves when you go to bed at night.

Wear gloves when you go outside to protect the skin the the weather.
When your skin cracks and splits on your fingers, put on a plaster to protect it so that it does not get dirty and infected.

Also keep a note of anything that you touch that might aggravate the condition so that yu can avoid touching it or use protective gloves before you do.  You will probably be allergic to rubber and latex too.  You can buy Nitrile gloves - these are what doctors and dentists use (and me).  

I do a lot of planting and wear the Nitrile gloves so that I do not catch any germs and bacteria through my cracked skin.  At the moment it is fine.

Bacteria can enter through the broken skin, so it is important to keep it protected.  

I have recently started to take B12, magnesium, zinc, multvitamins as well as drinking a lot of natural yogurt (may be that is helping).  

Your hands may get red with weepy spots, but this is not Rosacea.  By what you say, you suffer from eczema.  You can urticaria and these are spots that itch and weep and you can urticaria different parts of the body.

You only get Rosacea on the face and it can affect the eyes.

With the hand skin problem, you need to find the right cream that will help you.  Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated as this is important for healty skin as well as having a healthy diet.

As you dad is a herbalist he should be helping you more with your problem.  Calendula petals are very good for the skin.  

Hope you get sorted out soon so.  But remember as you have this problem now, it is likely that you may experience flare ups from time to time as you get older.

[Oscar000]

I used hot water actually to relieve the itch, and rinse it over with cold water.

[Oscar000]

I had a rash before, and it was not pretty. my skin would turn red plumped up with dark red spots and they hurt. looked like Rosacea. ( That's how bad it was) But i was very little back then. i am not sure how it disappeared. but it used to start every winter.

[Oscar000]

well honestly I hope you feel better, because it creeps the crap out of me just to hear about it. I feel bad for you. Well back on subject with fungal infections, it is true that on contact. My mother went to a SPA and SONA (i think i spelled it wrong, the place where you wash up, in hot water) and got it because she had wore the slippers that some woman had fungal infection on.
But my hands may be eczema, because so far no one has caught my infection, but my father has athletes foot and i never got it from him. I asked him before why he had not cured it earlier. he told me the same thing you said. As people age, they get all types of skin problems, that there is no point of curing them, if its going to comeback again.
It makes me hate myself sometimes. Me myself, work out everyday, got built and alot of people especially girls found themselves falling in love with me. but my hands affect alot on me. when i stare at them, i see cracks, redness, wrinkles, hardened skin. and i hate when people just look at my hands especially after i shook theirs. Always look at me and say, WTF is wrong with his hands. Or How is he going to Masturbate? (all that weird stuff) It makes me angry that people cant appreciate others, especially the handicapped and physically disabled people. Its sad how people judge others. Looking at them and saying incredibly disrespectful things behind others backs. It makes me sick. well i have taken medication for a while and it works well for me. but after too much of activities with my hands especially in the cold, they crack up and bleed.

I was at a friends house the other day, and my medication was mixed with vinegar. they always would be like, do you smell vinegar? its sooo funny sometimes. today my teacher thought someone had brought salted pretzels and hotdogs with mustard. which i do not know how she smelled vinegar as something else. Vinegar is so obvious. Well my hands are getting better!