SORE AND PEELING FINGERTIPS

That is literally the EXACT situation that has happened to me, when I was about 11 or 12 the chlorine tablets from our pool came out of the floating feeder and I picked them up and from then on I have had random peeling, some burning etc. HAHA crazy the first page I looked at had someone with the same situation.

I highly suspect I have celiac. My mom's side of the family has been diagnosed with it and my dad's side has a lot of gluten intolerance. Anyway, I've noticed that my finger blisters tend to flare up after I've accidentally consumed gluten. I'll get my normal GI problems, body/joint aches, acne, inflammation, etc., but I also will get these blisters under the skin in my fingertips that eventually cause pain and peeling and cracking. They don't itch at all. Right before the blisters appear, my fingertips feel almost numb, then the blisters arrive uner the skin, then a couple of days later the peeling and pain begin.

Do any of you notice it coming on after you take an antihistamine?  Happens that way for me.  I have eczema already but whenever I take an allergy pill with antihistamine they swell and peel.  

 

Still no answer/cure? I guess it's hopeless... I have had the exact same problem as the persone who posted the pictures for as long as I can remember. It used to be mostly around my nails, and I used to bite off the skin as well as my nails, but then spread to my whole finger tips, and my feet. It usually starts around August and stops in January, no matter what the season. I would also get it on the "wrinkles" of my left index finger and the edge of both my middle fingers, and after biting it so much it became a hard piece of skin. I went to see a dermatologist who gave me some acid ointment to put on it every night, and the hard skin eventually dissapeared. But I still have finger and palm peeling each year, and feet peeling all year round. I have tried aplying cream but it doesn't do much, especially since I have sweaty glands thingys and it just makes my hands even sweatier. In case this helps: I'm 14, pescatarian (I eat fish but not meat), I take iron and vitamins each morning (I doubt that has anything to do with it though) I have a healthy diet, I have a cat and a dog (that i've had since I was a child, is it possible that this is related to animals?) and I think that covers everything. If you have any information, please reply! :)

I'm female, 32, this began when I was 26. Left middle fingertip gets numb, blisters and peels every Aug/Sept. I've lived in FL, Maine and Ohio - no difference, always comes in the fall. Never itchy. I have been taking Zyrtec (antihistamine) everyday this past month but prior years have not taken. Not sure if the allergy med is related.

I have exactly what you are describing...what do you use to help it?

I have had this skin condition for years off and on, on my fingers. I have tiny deep blisters form on my fingers and they peel when done, which is only an annoyance really. In May or June of this year I developed an intense form of this on my left thumb and I'm right handed- and so it has been since then. My thumb gets hard and thick, I have no feeling there or thumbprint. It will either just get thicker or crack or peel. If I mess with it I can find fluid filled little blisters under the layers. It never itches. I haven't found any correlation with contact with water or any material. I also was diagnosed with lichen planus another skin disorder last year that has round shiny pink and gray spots and that can itch a little. That's just really not attractive, it doesn't make issues like cracked open sore fingers. My dermatologist had said the little blisters were a form of dermatitis and I was already applying steroidal creams and had gotten steroid shots- it hasn't helped. I don't wash dishes a lot- my husband does- I usually work in the yard a lot but haven't been lately, so there isn't a constant there. I've never really been allergic to anything. I will say that when my thumb broke out I had just been through a rough patch and some depression, so it could be stress related- but then why don't other people have it?

I keep a band aid on it with neosporin so I can function, nothing has cured it. It's amazing how much you need your thumbs- but you don't think about it until you can't!

The frustrating thing seems to be that there are no constants, no firm diagnosis, and no real cures.

My thumb looks just like the picture. Cat bit my thumb march 30th, cracked it and caused a blood blister. Everything healed and nail kept growing. In september my thumb started peeling and the nail yellowed. Started using coconut oil as moisturizer, and 2 times a day I apply a mixture of tea tree and coconut oil. Helps a bit, but after a day at work my thumb is dried out again. So glad to finally know i'm not alone, thought it may be a fungal infection from the nail, but I guess it may be psoriasis. I'm no stranger to nail problems, I have fungal infections on my toenails and my feet are dry and cracked unless I keep up with moisturizing. My dad and his dad have/had the same thing as long as I can remember, so I also thought maybe it's hereditary

I just started having this to.its very sore painful and peeling with raw red skin under. it feels dry and burning. when you mentioned formaldehyde it rang a bell. the doctor feels that mine is coming from my nail super glue that has that in it.Im going to stop using the glue and nail altnough my fingernail s are also destroyed from it. are yours???

Vodahn...thanks for posting those pictures.  This is exactly what my fingertips look like right now.  I also have this problem in the winter.  I would love to know if you have come up with some kind of solution. 

I read in a post on a thyroid forum long ago that this toughening and ensuing peeling on the index fingers in particular is always due to an improperly treated hypothyroid condition. I accidentally became a witness to the truth of this by having additional T3 added to my thyroid treatment. This skin issue on the fingers magically resolved only to reoccur when my less-Informed doctor reduced my thyroid dose due to later TSH results. The skin problem returned.

Looks just like my two sons' finger tips in winter. This thread is not addressing the same ailment across users. Can someone please advise if the above pictured finger tip rash which is painful at times in the case of my sons is diagnosis able and offer some suggestions. Thx

What it is that you are referring to is dishydrosis, or pomphlox. A type of eczema. I have it too.

Even i am suffering through this from last 1 years means not continuously but many a times. I had check it with doctor that time he said that it is because some bacteria or dirt. Like as i work on laptop and if laptop is not clean for many days and still you are using it then this could be reason.
He suggested one cream on it sorry is forgot the name but it was very effective and all soreness and peeling was gone.
But after a month or 2 it started again i can't find what is actual reason of it.

You are the FIRST person with a simple, decent idea. I'm going to try this. It HURTS so much!!