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.

[jemma116]

I do not know why I have so many skin problems.  May be because of genetics.  I am allergic to rubber and latex, soaps and perfumes and chemicals (even their vapour).  I am also allergice to goats cheese, this made my lips swell and tingle.

I am allergic to my cucumber plant leaves and cypress.  I am allergic to dogs (I start to cough and wheeze) as well as smoke.  I have a very sensitive nose and have picked up the minutes smell of gas once when no one else detected it.

I was also exposed to carbon monoxide some years ago when we were on a boating holiday.  I knew straight away that something was not right becuase I felt sick when we entered the boat.  The engineer said everything was fine.  But I felt worse and worse.  It turned out the fridge gas outlet pipe was blocked.  I was ill for quite a long time after that.  

At your age, I had no skin problems at all.

[jemma116]

Fungal infections are spread by contact.  Even if you walk barefooted in a shower room after someone who has a verruca, you can catch it.

As people get older, the skin changes.  Also sometimes people develop allergies, either from foods, chemicals, soaps, detergents, perfumes, plants, etc.
Whilst when young poeple may not have a skin problem, as they get older they may develop skin allergies and contact dermatitis.    Unfortunately, we live in a world full of pollutants.  

Some young people with asthma and eczema can grow out of this.  In my case I grew into it.  That's how it is.

[Oscar000]

Why do you have so many skin problems?(no offense)

[Oscar000]

i use a herbal medicine, i use it almost everyday so its getting better. using hot water actually "burns" the itch. my father had told me, do not use hot water, or it will make problems worse. fungal infections are contagious but from what i was told it is not contagious unless someone (for example) wore the same gloves you wore.

[jemma116]

If you read sadeqq post dated Sep 19, 2009 you will have seen that he used an ointment called Esperson which is a Topical corticosteroid and this cured his hand.

[jemma116]

If you are talking about Rosacea and/or dermatitis and eczema.  The answer is: no, it does not pop out.

For my hand problem which is dry eczema, Dermatitis means inflammation of the skin.  I use Diprosalic ointment that was prescribed by the doctor.

It "melts" the hard dry skin and helps the skin to heal.  I do not have to use if very time.  When it flares up it is extremely itchy and the more you scratch the more it itches.  I sometimes have to bite my fingers, but find that placing the hot itchy hands into COLD water cools it down.  Hot water aggravates it and makes it worse.  

The thing is, is to cool the inflamed hot skin, not make it more hot.