allergy to detergent

[gusl]

I've been having a weird pain in the skin of my hands for the past week or so... red spots my palms, very dry peeling fingertips.

I'm hoping it's an allergy... even though my blood doesn't seem to be allergic to any of the common allergens. I suspect the dish-washing detergent.

I wonder if I should see a doctor about it.

This reminds me that in 2000, I got hives all over my body for an unknown reason... and had to be on cortisone for a couple of weeks. Coincidentally or not, it was the middle of summer too.

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[spoonless.livejournal.com]

I have a rash currently, which was almost all over my body... I've been taking Lidex (steroid cream) to get rid of it and it's going away slowly.

I got the red spots on my palms and dry fingers (with little slices of lines going through them, almost as if they were getting old too quickly) but I had no idea what it was. The red spots didn't last too long, but the weirdness on my fingertips stayed for almost a year (although that too eventually disappeared).

My body's pretty weird, it gets rashes on it once every couple years for a couple months and then the rest of the time it's fine. Doctors usually call it "excema" but they always say that it's a bit different than usual excema. So I don't really know what it is.

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

I got the red spots on my palms and dry fingers (with little slices of lines going through them, almost as if they were getting old too quickly) but I had no idea what it was. The red spots didn't last too long, but the weirdness on my fingertips stayed for almost a year (although that too eventually disappeared).

Oops, I didn't make it clear here that... the problem with the red spots and dry fingers was about 4 years ago, whereas the current rash is just a red rash on lots of my body.