Skin peeling in heat

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm perplexed about a skin condition I get on my hands in the summers, ever

since I moved to San Diego. The skin simply sloughs off my hands and fingers,

always on yin surfaces. I starts on the thumb and middle finger, then to the

other fingers, each summer involving more fingers and more skin that the

previous year. The areas that are denuded are red, hot and painful, and the

peeling starts with small circles that gradually enlarge in irregular shapes.

In general, my hands are dry, and I prefer them that way. I just spent a week

in the high desert where it was hotter than here, but drier, and the redness

went out of the peeled areas and the pain went away. Now I am back in San Diego

2 days only, and the redness and pain have returned. Any ideas what this might

be, or how to treat it? So far, I've been able to conclude that damp heat

aggravates it (damp more than heat), but it goes away in the cool, dry fall and

cool, moist winter. I went to Kaiser, but they don't have a

clue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

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<> wrote:

- skin condition I get on my hands in the summers,

-The skin simply sloughs off my hands and fingers,

-yin surfaces.

-denuded are red, hot and painful

-peeling starts with small circles that gradually enlarge

-my hands are dry,

-hotter than here, but drier, and the redness went out of the peeled

areas and the pain went away.

-damp heat aggravates it (damp more than heat

-goes away in the cool, dry fall and cool, moist winter>

>

>

>

> Andrea,

Is there any itching, vesicles or pustules??

Mazin Al Khafaji has an article in the JCM about pompholyx eczema

that may or may not fit your pattern(s). Check the JCM website, the

article is in the free samples.

Good luck,

Jill Likkel

[Guest guest]

Andrea,

Also Fire toxin(along with damp heat) was one of the major patterns

that Mazin discussed when addressing lesions on the palms and soles,

either dry, red or pompholyx type.

There is a palmar psoriasis which usaully has pustular lesions on

the feet or hands, the pustules start yellow but quickly turn brown

and there is often pronounced fissuring, itching is mild. He says

this is usually fire toxin and damp heat but he also uses cool the

blood medicinals with much erythema and blood movers and tonics with

fissuring.

I do have a bunch of recipes(that is what Mazin calls them) if you

want them,

Jill

[Guest guest]

Andrea,

here is the link, go to the PDF version for the herbal formulas.

Jill

 

www.jcm.co.uk/SampleArticles/pompholyx.phtml

[Guest guest]

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<> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I'm perplexed about a skin condition I get on my hands in the

summers, ever since I moved to San Diego. The skin simply sloughs off

hands are dry, and I prefer them that way. I just spent a week in the

high desert where it was hotter than here, but drier, and the redness

went out of the peeled areas and the pain went away. Now I am back in

San Diego 2 days only, and the redness and pain have returned. Any

ideas what this might be, or how to treat it? So far, I've been able

 

 

 

I do not know what to tell you about treatment, but it may be more

useful to hash out the etiology first.

 

Rather than looking to weather as the culprit, consider some sort of

behavior, something that you regularly contact with your hands, since

moving to the San Diego, that you did not do / contact before you

moved here, and that you did not do / contact while on vacation.

Maybe a pet, a hand-soap, exercise equipment, steering wheel, massage

oil, etc.

 

Brian C. Allen

[Guest guest]

Hi Andrea Beth

 

I experienced this as well, when I was a teenager. Western Med has

classified it as Dishydrosis. They gave me a steroid creme which, of

course, worked well, however I ended up with thickened skin on my

palms, I believe, as a result (and who knows about liver toxicity!).

The only times I get it any more are during high stress times or on

exposure to detergents, like dish washing liquid. I use a " green "

dish liquid now and get no problems and mediate my stress with

meditation and/or acu-herbs. Did you wash dishes in AZ? If not, you

may want to think about this route i.o. chemical sensitivy/ " allergy "

of your skin. Do you use regular dish liquids at home?

 

Shanna

[Guest guest]

Hi Jill,

 

No, there aren't any pustules or vesicles - it's all completely dry and flat,

and red wherever the skin has most recently receded. It rarely itches - and

only before peeling starts.

 

I will check out the article you mentioned.

 

Thank you,

Andrea Beth

 

" Jill A. Likkel " <jilllikkel wrote:

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<> wrote:

- skin condition I get on my hands in the summers,

-The skin simply sloughs off my hands and fingers,

-yin surfaces.

-denuded are red, hot and painful

-peeling starts with small circles that gradually enlarge

-my hands are dry,

-hotter than here, but drier, and the redness went out of the peeled

areas and the pain went away.

-damp heat aggravates it (damp more than heat

-goes away in the cool, dry fall and cool, moist winter>

>

>

>

> Andrea,

Is there any itching, vesicles or pustules??

Mazin Al Khafaji has an article in the JCM about pompholyx eczema

that may or may not fit your pattern(s). Check the JCM website, the

article is in the free samples.

Good luck,

Jill Likkel

 

 

 

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