puffy palms

[lou11]

hi
you had a post regarding excessive skin wrinkling on palms when the skin is wet for only a matter of seconds.

i have this condition and have been to see specialists but no one can fathom out what the reason for this is. over the years it has got worse, the symptons include;
puffy raised white area on the palms of my hands these go after apprx half an hour of being dry
little clusters of small holes/pores that seem to follow the lines on the palms of my hand, only in the area that is raised and puffy.
this happens even when my hands sweat in the summer when driving, washing dishes, showering, bathing, cleaning.. all connected with water.
it doesn't hurt but my hands feel so dry it's uncomfortable to touch anything.
a specalist mention that it maybe a karatin deficiencey previously but this has been going on for at least 7 years so i can be sure it'snot something i've just noticed, it also gets worse if i'm stressed.
Please help, i'd love to find a cure or even a reason behind it!


This discussion is related to Puffy Skin on Palms of Hands..

[Ajane27]

I'm a 25 year old female and these symptoms just started tonight and really freaked me out. I got bit by a dog today on two of my fingers and my Dr. Prescribed me Augmentin. I took one dose and a few hours later during my shower I felt my palms were extremely wrinkled and hard and painful. The lines in the skin of my palms were really deep and pronounced and there were little holes of skin where it was peeling. They feel way too hard and painful to just be pruning from a ten minute shower. I read it may be a reaction to certain antibiotics and I hope that's what it is because this is painful and kind of alarming. I've been continuing to rub lotion on my palms for the past half hour and it's starting to get a little better but not normal yet. I do go to the tanning bed and take Generess Fe and Fosamax. I'll update if it goes away which hopefully it will. I'm on the antibiotic for seven days.

[Lolaksu]

I had to comment again, the glycerin thing was maybe bullsh*t, i went to the doctor, and he said that what was causing this was vitamin d deficiency. It can be true because i haven't been on the beach for years, and every where i go in the summer is in the shadow, what makes it more likely is that one time when i went on vacation on summer i didn't have this problem. So this might be it. I promise i will write again if i get better and it actually is vit d deficiency.

[Lolaksu]

Hi guys i just found this site and i was relieved that i am not the only one with this condition but also kind of scared cause i don't lnow what it really is or what is causing it. Im 26 btw and it all started 2 years ago in the summer, the doctor said it was from stress but the in fall it went away, til it got warm again in spring and it came back... Now i just tried something at home and im surprised. Let me tell you from the beginning, i recently bought glycerin to try a hair mask, but instead of moisturizing it it made my hair dry, when i read these comments tonight i thouth everything i use for washing has glycerin so maybe thet has to do something with this, so i put glycerin mixed with water in my left hand and just water in my right hand, and i let them dry by themselves. My just water hand started to wrinkle but the glycerin one did not, i put them i warm water then, and the just water hand wrinkled some more but the glycerin one Nope nope nope nothing. Guys i am going to try this every time before i shower. I will write againg but i think i found a solution i am happy really... (and sorry for writing so long english is not my firs language)

[puffypalms]

I'm a 24 year old man and I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one experiencing this. I'm going to try the Gold Bond Medicated Cream and the Drysol that others have suggested. Hoping that helps. Not sure what else to do. The doctor I went to had never heard of anything like the symptoms I have that so many of you have described.

[OttawaCanadianMom]

I know it is very upsetting to see the kids go through it. I wish that I had it instead. My daughter has not had any tests because they don't think she has CF. She is hardly ever sick; however the medical literature does suggest that people who had this disorder may be a carrier of the gene. But that is even a long shot. Don't worry; if your daughter had CF she would have been very sick and frail. She won't have it.  I have started a FB page hoping to create a community if people who have this disorder. I was told that if enough cases are found, perhaps they could do a controlled study and we could come up with some solution. Please email me at ***@**** if you would be interested in joining this group on facebook.

[tamlodell]

Hello everyone,
     I'm so glad I found this forum. My 15 year old daughter has just starting having the wrinkly palms after a short shower. So I found this forum a few days ago. I took her to the dr today, and he had never seen this before, I told him about my findings on AWP, and he looked it up. My daughter is healthy other than this, and he is  assuring me she doesn't have CF, because if she did she'd be frail and sickly all her life. But I am reading things that could differ from what he has said. I'm had hoped he'd send her for some tests just to rule that out, but he didn't think she needed them. Said if it wasn't bothering her too much that we'd just see if it goes away. Now I really don't know what to do, I don't even know what type of dr we'd need to see for this. I was afraid he would know nothing of it. I would really love to hear what you all have learned from the test  your girls are taking. Thanks so much!!
Tammy