Tiny Holes in my hands

[nursechic]

I have a friend who has tiny holes in the creases of his palms and fingers. These little holes will get hardened white tissue in them which he pulls out leaving again a little tiny hole. These holes are in every crease and fold of his palm and fingers which is a cause of embarassment for him. A couple of times it is if the holes have gotten infected under the hardened area but as soon as the protrusion is pulled out the area is fine. Please does anyone know what this could be and how he can treat it? He went to a dermatologist who told him.... put stick deordorant on his hand....I have no idea how that was supposed to help him and it did not. So if anyone knows what this could be please let me know.
Thanks,

[jayson883]

ive had them for years and if your always working your hands its not much you can do, i took it easy on my hands the best i could and now their going away they come from bending your fingers or gripping/grabbing things thats why if you notice the little pin holes or in the cracks of your hand/fingers and theirs a seed a ball of dead skin once you dig into it the trick is every time that seed/dead skin try's to grow back in you have to pluck it back out and soon it will not grow back, but if its the tiny hole with no seed the best thing you can do is try not to work it or bend it so much and it will slowly go away, hope this helps

[blue5830]

this is the answer. its a build up of dead skin. the bottom of the hole is where your first layers of skin should be.  


SOLUTION : I bought a cheap pair of cloth gloves (not to big). Now dig out white hard seed and scrape around outside dead skin making area flush. This will increase bending motion. make sure hand is soaked to the point where area is soft and very white. grease hand with Vaseline and fill hole with it. bend hand in opposite direction of normal bend much as possible (skin will stretch and suck in Vaseline). Make sure hole is compacted with grease. what happens is water sits in hole along with natural salt from body and extremely dries hole faster (that's the BB feeling). while that's happening your skin is still healing around a ball of dry skin. Basically, you need keep that hole moist until it catch's up with other skin. If you let it get hard............... start over. I work with my hands so I use the cloth gloves to hold grease. please remember when skin is water-wet healing takes longer, when greased, it is easy to collect dirt which builds dead skin If not watched. Our body heals itself, we just think it happens over night

[Dagrandgirls]

I noticed a hard bump like thingamajig first in my left palm on a line. It was very sore. After letting it annoy the crap outta me for quite awhile I dug and squeezed the little rascal and then there was the little hole. It was sore for a short time following my at home procedure but it soon returned. I repeated the process and the results were the same. FINALLY I decided to ignore it and that was hard. But ignoring it was the BEST thing. Today it's gone and has been for more than a year and another appeared has stopped to annoy me. I've decided to ignore it anticipating the same result. NO MORE...which is what i suggest. Leave it be and it will go away bit the little scar will always remain.

[Dryfoot]

I have these tiny holes also which sometimes cause pain have no idea wat they are nor do the doctors and skin specialist all have different ideas. At the moment I am using bazuka gel which seems to be working some of the holes have near enogth disappeared.warning This stuff has acid in so be careful with it.  I now do not have to sit down with a pin digging out the hard crustation that comes out. Hope this helps you.

[willie610]

Sorry it wasnt my chest but it was the back side of my left arm near my armpit.... didnt mean to say chest.... but as I said they left scars

[willie610]

I first used to get them on my chest in my early 20s... they stopped but left 3 scars. Now 20 years later I have all these little holes in the creases of my hands with the hard little cone in the center. Usually wont have but one at a time but when it goes away another one developes immediately in another hole. Its painfull. Not the worst pain in the world but pretty annoying because I work a physical job using my hands. This creeps me out majorly. I thought I was alone!