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HELP!!! weird bumps and rash on body that looked like small bites are now inflamed all over body!
by aMomFirst, Sep 22, 2008 10:08PM
Please help...
My husband who is 44 yr. old male on no meds, good health, no obvious health probs woke up in the middle of the night last night with itching on his chest. It was severe enough to wake him up and he is a heavy,heavy sleeper. Then this am when he woke up he noticed they seemed to be gone. He figured they were just bug bites.
Later in the day, he felt like they were coming on again were undergarments were at and on his scalp. They were itchy but tolerable. This evening around supper time, he showed me his inner wrist and they were both red with small hives about 2 " . I looked at his neck, face and hairline, at that time, he appeared to have what looked like bug bites all over his neck, a few on his face, on his scalp and a few other areas on his arms. I gave him 2 benadryl tabs. Less than 1 hour later, he bagan complaining stating we had to leave the restaurant he was so uncomfortable. On the way home, he said it felt like his back, armpits, stomach, chest, back, scalp, buttocks, and groin area were uncomfortable and so itchy he couldn't stand it.
When we got home, he undressed the second he was in the door and I was horrified! His scalp and neck whcih looked like small bites before had quadrupled in size. His armpits are so red and bumpy they look like a scar/burn on the outside of the rash. His chest, stomach and back have areas all over that are horribly inflamed, red with small and large bumps. His groin area and buttocks are so severe, everywhere his underwear touched, (not including his penis), is inflamed, red with small bumps everywhere! He took a quick cool shower and we applied a liberal amount of hydrocortisone 1% on al affected areas. Another alarming thing is that the most inflamed area is where his underwear were at. He looks like he's wearing a rash for underwear it's so severe!!!
I now have him using a ice bag inside of a pillow case to help the itching and hopefully inflamed areas.
Please help! He has never had anything like this. He rarely ever has a cold or gets sick, so this is highly unusual for him. We cannot think of anything he has eaten that would be new. We still use the same detergent we've used for years, and we cannot find any actual bug bites on his body. I stripped our bedding, just in case, and searched for any hiding bugs, but found none.
Any ideas??? Please help....SOON!
My husband who is 44 yr. old male on no meds, good health, no obvious health probs woke up in the middle of the night last night with itching on his chest. It was severe enough to wake him up and he is a heavy,heavy sleeper. Then this am when he woke up he noticed they seemed to be gone. He figured they were just bug bites.
Later in the day, he felt like they were coming on again were undergarments were at and on his scalp. They were itchy but tolerable. This evening around supper time, he showed me his inner wrist and they were both red with small hives about 2 " . I looked at his neck, face and hairline, at that time, he appeared to have what looked like bug bites all over his neck, a few on his face, on his scalp and a few other areas on his arms. I gave him 2 benadryl tabs. Less than 1 hour later, he bagan complaining stating we had to leave the restaurant he was so uncomfortable. On the way home, he said it felt like his back, armpits, stomach, chest, back, scalp, buttocks, and groin area were uncomfortable and so itchy he couldn't stand it.
When we got home, he undressed the second he was in the door and I was horrified! His scalp and neck whcih looked like small bites before had quadrupled in size. His armpits are so red and bumpy they look like a scar/burn on the outside of the rash. His chest, stomach and back have areas all over that are horribly inflamed, red with small and large bumps. His groin area and buttocks are so severe, everywhere his underwear touched, (not including his penis), is inflamed, red with small bumps everywhere! He took a quick cool shower and we applied a liberal amount of hydrocortisone 1% on al affected areas. Another alarming thing is that the most inflamed area is where his underwear were at. He looks like he's wearing a rash for underwear it's so severe!!!
I now have him using a ice bag inside of a pillow case to help the itching and hopefully inflamed areas.
Please help! He has never had anything like this. He rarely ever has a cold or gets sick, so this is highly unusual for him. We cannot think of anything he has eaten that would be new. We still use the same detergent we've used for years, and we cannot find any actual bug bites on his body. I stripped our bedding, just in case, and searched for any hiding bugs, but found none.
Any ideas??? Please help....SOON!
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It could be allergic reactions or insect bites. Nothing can be said with absolute surety without having a look at the lesions.
You need to wash the areas several times with fresh water. Do not use any cosmetic products at the sites.
Apply calamine lotion at the site of the lesions and see if it helps. You could take some oral antihistamine medications like cetrizine or loratadine. You need to maintain a good personal hygiene .
Anti-itch drugs, often antihistamine, may reduce the itch during a flare up of eczema, and the reduced scratching in turn reduces damage and irritation to the skin.
For mild-moderate eczema a weak steroid may be used (e.g. hydrocortisone or desonide), whilst more severe cases require a higher-potency steroid (e.g. clobetasol propionate, fluocinonide).
Let us know if you need any further information.
It would be advisable to consult a skin specialist for his symptoms and a proper clinical examination.
Let us know if you need any other information and post us on how he is doing.