dry peeling hands

I have this problem as well, skin on palm has tiny blisters under the outerlayer, then just disengages it over time, leaving vulnerable and very sensitive thin skin under, sometimes bleeding. It splits apart at the 'stratum lucidum' layer, which is only on palms and soles of feet. I am thinking it is associated with arthritis, and diet is the only cure. NO dairy, at all, no red meat, lots of things VEGAN low low fat. I'll report when I see if it works

i also have that but when i use surf and touch onion juice i develop sores on my hands .what should i do some body help plz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:'(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a similar problem - since the age of 10 every single summer my hands get very dry, particularly the fingertips and they peel a lot, until they're red raw. The first signs are often red dots over my hands which are a bit tingley and quite sore. The joints also get a bit sore sometimes. But it is completely heat related. It's maddening - stops me being able to do a lot of things in the summer, even things like folding clothes, or washing up, let alone holding hands with my girlfriend or playing raquet sports.

I DID find a cure...sort of. When travelling in India my hands got paritcularly bad and, willing to try anything, I went to an Ayurvedic Doctor. He didn't speak much English but prescribed me these powders (legal, I assure you!) and told me to take them on an empty stomach with warm water every morning. It was truly disgusting but worked! Unfortunately he gave me some other powders to take once my hands had cleared up which would prevent it from returning. However, I was backpacking at the time, didn't bother taking the follow up powders and it then returned. And I now can't remember how/ when I was supposed to take them. Sadly I also can't afford to fly back to Shimla in India to find out!

BUT Ayurvedic doctors are quite prevalent, so I recommend people find their nearest one and go check them out. This is what I will be doing.

 

It sounds like it might be Keratolysis Exfoliative.

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My hand has been peeling since 2000 ,just recently i have taken activated charcoal . for now it has stop peeling. fyi that is the hand that i hold my cell phone.

I KNOW WHAT THIS IS i have had it happen a few times all the sudden my hands start to peel and it works its way through my palms and fingers im like what the hell is this it seems the whole first layer comes off for a week or 2 and it heals up and doesnt happen for a while its athletes foot of your hands! you have to use lamasil or fucidin look up pictures of athletes foot of the hands

You literally just explained my life. My fingers started to peel again, first time since I was young. Ugghhh

i hope your husband is doing ok. did you ever find out if it was kawasakis disease. my friends daughter had that when she was about 8 yrs old and almost past away. it was a shame that the meds they had to give her to keep her alive was 50,000.00 a bag. she had to have 5 bags of it which sent my friends family into bankrupt. the most important thing is that their daughter survive it.

Try O'Keeffe's Working Hands. Hand Cream. This works realiy well. They also have it for feet. A friend got it for me I love it. My father in laws hands were so bad he could hardly work. I got him some and he called me wanting to know where I got it, his hands were better. 

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I have suffered from this for a couple of years and had no idea why.  I have been to doctors, tried medicines and lotions - every kind.  Nothing helped and it was getting worse.  I was embarrassed to shake hands with anyone and they looked horrible.I finally found the answer thats to someone posting on the interenet and I happened to stumble across the simple answer.  FISH OIL!  I take 3-5 1000mg fish oil capsules a day and one flax oil.  I noticed a difference the first day.  It took me about 2 weeks to really see a difference but it has been amazing.  I didn't think such a simple thing would work, but it has.  My hands have not looked this good in a long time.  No more dry, cracked and peeling hands.  WOW!  I am so thankful someone took the time to speak up so I am doing the same.  Try it.

I am in college and last year, after an exposure to extremely cold weather for an extended period of time, my hands started to do the same thing. Any exposure to heat and moisture makes the symptoms worse. After a 5 minute shower, my hands are more pruned than ever all the time, and when I wake up in the morning, my hands feel hard. If I itch them, they create this burning sensation. My only guess is that the exposure to the extremely cold air has caused skin damage within the nerves which is incapable of ever healing. I've been using a moisturized prescribed by doctors that helps for a few hours, but in cold conditions, my hands peel more than ever. There is almost nothing anyone can do but take the right precausions to prevent the peeling to the next few layers of skin. That's all I can help with. I'm sorry if this isn't the help you were looking for.

Dehydration is the culprit.

I have the same thing second year for me,now I almost get it healed and it returns. Summer is the worst, I have forgotten want normal is anymore.

My hands have been dry,rough, and peeling for about two weeks now I figured it was from my job in landscaping where I deal with raking, shoveling and sweating in gloves a lot. Iotion doesn't help me either i don't know what to do...

Over the past 2years my hands have been peeling do to the last layer of skin they also blister really back as well to the point that I had to give up work what could it be