The Skin on my fingers are peeling off, however their is no pain involved.

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I have had this problem for over a year now. Out of the blue my right hand pointer finger will get a little bump some clear some red and right after; the skin will become hard. Then it will start to peel. There isn't any itching just sensitivity. I'm afraid that if I do too much or mess with it that it will split and bleed. I've recently been putting bandages on my finger so that the skin peeling off won't catch on anything.
I've tried all kinds of lotions and even antibacterial creams. I don't know what else to do. I also made an appointment with a dermatologist but this is week two of this cycle and the appointment isn't until next week. my luck it will be gone by the time it comes around.

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Yeah, I'm having most of those symptoms in slighter form. This just started after I was wearing goalie gloves every day for a week. Now the tips of my pointer finger and thumb have raw skin, and even that skin is starting to have dead skin bubbles come up.

I'm thinking the possible causes could be due to:
-Too much glove wearing (very possible since this was mentioned before)
-Clammy hands (probably not, but was mentioned before)
-Riding my bike a lot (maybe)
-Dietary supplement pills i just started taking (probably not)
-My new job requiring me to type on the comp a lot (maybe)

Maybe there is a connection we all have so I'm trying to rack my brain to see why this may be happening.

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Does anybody else have wet hands?? i mean not really sweaty hands, but just wet?

my hands have been doing this for the last five years or so, since i was about twelve. it starts with my left pinky and ring finger, then moves to my index finger, as well as my other hand. it almost bubbles, with little air blisters coming up to the top layer of the skin until it 'pops' and then starts to peel. sometimes its close to being itchy, like i can feel my skin peeling apart from the inner-outer layers, almost like there are air bubbles trapped, pulling it outwards.
the one thing that i've noticed about it is that it seems like my hands are dried out, but at the same time my hands often seem wet/sweaty/whatever you want to call it. my doctor told me to use Amlactin, which is some sort of moisturizing lotion, however it doesnt work because my skin gets very thin and tears easily when it happens so there isnt really much skin left to soak up the moisturizers.

it usually happens right around the time when it gets hot, so thats why im thinking maybe it has to do with hydration/saturation of the skin (with summer comes alot of swimming, at least for me)

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myhands are peelingvery similar to the other people that have posted. ijust moved from maui to vegas and the last time this happened tome was when i was a teenager in the dry subburbs of los angeles so i think it definatly has to do with climate. my hands are either wet or dry and peeling i have tryed all kinds of hand creamx and lotions but its a temporary fix to a permanent problem (at least it seems).when i was a kid it would go away after a week or two but here in vegas it has been a month plus soif anyone knows a remedy please tell and if i find one i will do the same. aloha.

Carol Black · Newbie Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

I have had this condition for over 2 years now, and it never ever goes away. There is a point, for less than a day, when the dead skin is almost peeled off, and the new skin isn't so tender and my fingers are almost normal. But then the cycle starts over again, with the fingers drying out, feeling thick and numb and look white-ish again. Then the skin cracks and peels off again. From reading all the posts, it looks like there is no cure for this that anyone has found, asside from a temopary cure using steroids. Which creams have worked the best to relieve the symptoms?

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I've had a similar condition most of my life. I'm a 23 year old female who has lived in Kentucky my entire life. My fingers--and occasionally my toes as well, though that is not so common now--will peel. Occasionally enough peels off that it is painful, but this doesn't happen often. I have been tested for Kawasaki's disease, and

I've been wondering if it could be related to something with my immune system. My fingers haven't peeled in over a year, but they began to do it again last week. In the last two weeks, I've had a nasty upper respiratory virus, oral thrush, a vaginal yeast infection, and while I'm not sure, I think I may be working on strep throat. (I'm an adjunct professor, so I'm constantly exposed to germs, and I think things have just piled on one thing after another.) I know being so sick with the initial virus downed my immune system--hence the thrush and yeast infection. Could this all be connected?

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I have had the same problem in my left thumb for a few years. Same as everybody else, nothing I put on it seems to help.

I've tried keeping it covered and moist, but that just makes it more tender, and seems to actually make it worse. I have cycles of the bubbles forming, the skin getting hard and peeling off, and the skin underneath being sensitive and sometimes bleeding.
I usually have from a few days to a week after the new skin toughens up of having and almost normal thumb, but the cycle always starts again.

It seems to be spreading under my fingernail as well. Every time my skin peels on my thumb, it goes up to where the skin connects to the end of my nail, and it separates the skin form the nail. It feels like I stabbed something under my fingernail, and it goes a little further every time it happens. Eventually I fear I will loose my nail on the left thumb because my skin is detaching itself from it.

It is especially hard for me being a tech, I use my hands a lot, and it makes it really difficult to do my job sometimes because of this condition.

My son also appears to have something like I have except his doesn't seem to go as deep or happen as often, but he has it on almost all of his fingers.

Doctors around here don't know what it is, and I have stopped putting anything on it when it happens. I just put up with it.

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I'm having the same problem. Mine's a little different though. It starts to bubble into dry skin, then splits open. When i peel it off it keeps ripping off all of my other skin. It happens only on my pointer and middle finger and my thumb. What i found useful is using St. Ives collagen elastin. Although i still have the dry fingers, it's not as BAD. I've had this problem for over four years now and i'm only 13 1/2!

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Having the same thing. Anyone find what this could be? it's getting annoying!!!

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My index fingers and thumbs (both right and left) started peeling bout a week ago and continue to. There is no pain, but where the skin has peeled off and there is now discoloration that does not wash off. I thought the discoloration may be from eating pomagranites or using my fingers to blend in my life drawing class but it should not bepermanentl staining my skin. thought it might be seasonal eczema (I usually get breakouts on the upper arms during the dry season and sometimes chaffed fingertips but never this bad) however the browning skin seems more serious than eczema. It is also strange that no other fingers have been affected so it might be from something I am touching like my graphite or charcoal pencils. Any thoughts. These symptoms are a minor nuissance, but I'm worried about what the cause may be.

The Skin on my fingers are peeling off, however their is no pain involved.

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