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Pompholyx Eczema after Athletes Foot

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mazria
mazria

Hi all. Please can someone help?

About 5 weeks ago i developed really severe athletes foot - now not ever having athletes foot before this was really shocking to me. The doctor prescribed Canesten HC cream and erythromycin - as i am allergic to penicillin and it is now beginning to feel normal again. The problem is now that i seem to have developed the same as what was on my foot on my right hand. I went back to the doctors and he gave me Fucibet cream and told me to continue to take the erythromycin - but i've only been able to take 2 of these a day rather than the prescribed 4 as they were makiing the side of my face burn. The condition has just been getting worse and worse and when i went back to the doctors the beginning of the week she told me to keep using the cream, prescribed another lot of erythromcin and some dermol handwash/moisteriser cream and suggested i wear a cotton glove to bed. The doctors haven't diagnosed it as Pompholyx Eczema but after extensive research on the internet this is what i'm 99% sure it is. I have got a few blisters developing on my other hand and am absolutely terrified it's going to spread like wild-fire. The blisters on my right hand are all over my fingers, palm and beginning to go to the base of my wrist and between my thumb and finger towards the back of my hand. The ones on my palm seem to be merging together and are quite pus filled. My other problem is that after applying the Fucibet cream is does look really red and angry, my fingers seem to swell a bit more and is drawing liquid out. Is this a good thing or is it as i suspect and that is i am allergic to the Fucibet cream?

Any advice would be gratefully recieived or indeed and cures, either by prescription or natural cures or self help.

Please, please i am desperate as it is now making everyday chores almost impossible and even using the computer is agonising sad

Thank you in advance.. 

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  • mazria
    mazria

    Posted

    Hi all.

    The infection is definately getting worse and today my right hand is bound up and blisters are appearing rapidly on my left hand now so it's defo back to the doctors on Monday. Feeling so so itchy, sore and swollen and it's making me feel very down in the dumps and tearful sad

  • mrsmop
    mrsmop mazria

    Posted

    I'm sorry things are getting worse Mazria, try pushing for a Dermatology referral when you see your GP.  It is very draining having to go through something like you are going through.

    Good luck on Monday & let us know how you get on.

     

    • mazria
      mazria mrsmop

      Posted

      Thank you for your reply mrsmop.

      I shall be on the phone to them as soon as they open tomorrow.

      Definately been multiplying overnight on my left hand now. I am really desperate to get something done about it tomorrow sad

      I'll keep in touch.

    • mazria
      mazria

      Posted

      Hi all.

      Went back to docs yesterday and he's said to stop using the Fucibet and has now prescribed Doxycycline - 2 a day and to go back next Monday and to keep using the Dermol lotion. I've only taken to tablets so far and it has made my hands so dry and painfully itchy. The Dermol lotion is too runny to use as a daily moisturiser, can anyone suggest anything else I can use during the day? Night time isn't too bad as I can plaster it on put the cotton gloves on and leave it at that

    • mrsmop
      mrsmop mazria

      Posted

      Hi Mazria, any moisturiser would be appropriate, I think the derms recommend E45.  I use Nivea because it suits me & I like it

      I know they use Doxycycline & it helps but it could well be for a longer term than a week.

      I also use the inshower Nivea moisturiser, which helps my skin

    • mazria
      mazria mrsmop

      Posted

      Thank you mrsmop. I did have E45 in mind but don't want to agravate anything further! The dermol lotion just seems to absorb too quickly, no sooner i put it on my hands are dry again sad 
    • mrsmop
      mrsmop mazria

      Posted

      I don't think the E45 will upset anything, the Dermatologists are used to chopping & changing drugs/creams etc..

      When my hands were particularly dry, I would slather cream on them, then put them in vinyl gloves!  [can't use latex]  I do the same with my feet & put them in polythene bags for half an hour or so.

       

    • Bellla
      Bellla mrsmop

      Posted

      Sorry to disagree, E45 has Lanolin in which is a known irritant for some people.
    • mazria
      mazria Bellla

      Posted

      Ok Bellla, so do you have any suggestions of a really good moisteriser for my extremely dry sore hands?

       

    • Bellla
      Bellla mazria

      Posted

      That's tricky. If it's TSW, it's said the skin can't tolerate anything at its height. If it's ACD you'd need to find out the trigger through patch testing.

      You really need to find the cause in order to know.

    • mazria
      mazria Bellla

      Posted

      Looking at a different site last night, I would say that the athletes foot wasn't athletes foot in the first place, it was pompholyx eczema that developed on my foot after friction. I think I'll try and push the doctor for a dermolotogy referral. I have made enquiries about going private and although it's expensive it maybe the way to go to try and get to the root of the problem.

      More skin came off palm in night, the skin that comes off is about 2-3 mm thick and my palm is stingy sore this morning.

    • mrsmop
      mrsmop mazria

      Posted

      I think you are wise Mazria & your hands need dressing properly too, you don't need an infection on top of everything else.

      Sometimes going Privately can help because with the right Consultant, s/he can fast track you into his NHS clinic.

      I know that Derms use Doxycycline, I was on it for 18 months & whatever else it does it helps keep infection at bay.

      Good luck & do let us know how you get on.

  • mazria
    mazria

    Posted

    WARNING - PART EXPLICIT CONTENT NEAR END

    Hi all.

    Just an update to start with - day 5 of the Doxycyline antibiotics and there is a slight improvement. Whether this is down to the change of antibiotics or stopping the use of the Fucibet cream, who knows!

    My right palm feels like a load of superglue has been poured into it, it is so tight and i can hardly straighten it.

    My left hand still has blisters appearing, but no sooner they appear they are drying to little bumps.

    Both hands are like bark/leather and earier on when i was making my lunch the spring onions made them feel really prickly, even though i had vinyl gloves on sad

    Due back to the doctors on Monday and i am hoping that they may give me another course of the same antibiotics to knock it on the head.

    One embarrasing question i do have though...

    I seem to have a lump, the size of a grape just inside my bum and 2 smaller pea size lumps on one side of my labia. Is this to do with this eczema or a reaction of the antibiotics or what ?? 

  • mazria
    mazria

    Posted

    Went doctors today, thaey have given me another weeks worth of the Doxycycline and Zeroderm ointment to use as a hand cream so it should have more staying power than the Dermol lotion. Being referred to a dermotogist - the answer to that was see how the next week on antibiotics go first!
    • mrsmop
      mrsmop mazria

      Posted

      Goodness, they are very resistant to referral, aren't they?  And even if they referred you yesterday, it is likely to be a long time before you were seen.

       

    • patrick15755
      patrick15755 mazria

      Posted

      Hello Mazria. What you are suffering sounds horrendous. It would cost about £250 to see a consultant dermatologist. Phone BUPA on demand – 0333 920 0720 and ask them for an appointment without a referral. They will probably get you one for next week if not sooner. I have found GPs are very reluctant to refer. Something to do with budgets I think. I used BUPA on demand myself and found them very helpful. You can google it. All the best. Patrick.
    • mrsmop
      mrsmop patrick15755

      Posted

      Sadly Patrick, it is to do with a shortage of Dermatologists budgets are incidental.
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