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]

You should see your doctor so that you can get the right medication to treat it.

If it is a fungal infection, as you say, fungal infections are highly contageous.  Ask your dad.

Athletes foot, verrucas, warts, Thrush are types of fungal infections.

Rosacea is not a fungal disease.

[jemma116]

Your profile says you are 15.

[Oscar000]

In chinese culture, Noncurable skin Chronic (rosacea) is a disease(Please do not be bias with what Chinese say) , the reason is that it is not curable. at least they have not been able to fully cure it.

It is sad that you have this skin problem. Hope you get better.

BTW when you said it flares up, you meant it pops out right?
Does it hurt?

[Oscar000]

BTW i am only trying to help, but basing on your judgment, you believe that i do not understand anything. I understand this has nothing to do with education, but i am trying to explain that i have the ability of knowing the symptoms. Most people believe that Herbal Doctors are not as better than Medical Doctors, most people are wrong, Medical "Medicine" was based on Herbal Medicine. Herbal Doctors existed for over 2000 Years.

I am just SAYING.

[Oscar000]

first of all i am not 15, i am 16, my father is a herbal doctor, and teaches many things about medicine, you may think i am young, but i am a junior in Stuyvesant, with 98% Average. Currently taken the PSAT and had gotten 215, which is 2150 in SAT. Sooo, before you start saying that i am too young, date back in your childhood and explain what you've gotten. besides, it is very rude to think that i am too young and do not understand the facts. i do not know how to explain it, doesn't mean i do not know what it is.

I was told that (by a Medical Doctor) and my father (a Herbal Doctor) that this was a type of fungal infection. It is not contagious. But after i saw that the young man had a similiar looking problem. i had gotten cream for it before, it worked, but got worse afterwards.

I Am Only Trying To Help. You may think you have more experience than me. which is true, does not mean you understand more than what i learn from professors and doctors that teach me things.

[Oscar000]

But yes it maybe dermatitas, but in chinese culture this disease(bacteria) only appears on hands, it looks similiar though, so it may be dermatitas. its definitely not eczema, because true, eczema does itch and crack, but since i have this problem, it mainly starts forming the bumpy liquid bubble(after scratching them) and they itch. also when they itch, the more you scratch them, the more the become agressively painful and itchy it becomes. It is curable though. but takes alot of time. BTW, has anyone with this symptom put their hand in hot water?(i mean really hot water) it soothes the itchy-ness but makes it worse. it itches so bad that sometimes it makes me want to scratch my palms with a blade on it.