Thank you for the info. I am having the same symptoms and I have been looking everywhere.
Jan, do you live in San Francisco? Where did you get the blood drawn? UCSF?
It's an isopropanol alcohol allergy. So be careful of certain brands of hand sanitizer or not all alcohol-based items have a Isopropanol in them
I donated playlets three days ago and have a rash. Some suggest allergy to anticoagulant or whatever they used to clean the spot. I wonder about what the plasma piggybacked on during return. They said it was saline but I've never been able to taste saline in an IV bebore.hmmm
After donating you're suppose to wash the area when you get home so you don't get a rash - donated yesterday and the nurse told me but clearly I forgot as I ended up with a rash when I woke up.
They clean your arm off with alcohol. I am having the same issue and it has been a year that the itchiness comes and goes (in the exact same spot where my blood was drawn) It got to a point where my skin s now peeling off
exactly what happened to me.
No, I eat the same foods and same soap , deodorant, and shampoo
I've been using curel, gold Bond, and even cortisone 10 for the itchyness, not getting worse, but not getting better either
My arm broke out in hives after I gave blood. They used a clear liquid to clean my are instead of the iodine solution
I also had blood drawn for thyroid. 6 months ago, terribly itchy at draw site later that day. It lasted several weeks, cleared up for a couole weeks, but then returned, cleared, returned etc. Still recurring only at needle site inside my elbow 6 months later. Help !
I got routine blood drawn at my Doctors office and had the red ichey swelling where I had the blood drawn. My muscels on either side of my arm got very sore as the swelling continued. After 5 days I called my Dr office to get a referral to dermatologist, instead they rushed me back in to see my doctor next day. She said I scratched it and caused bacterial infection. She gave me a strong antibiotic used for SEVERE bacterial and drew a circle around the redness. She told me if the redness spread outside that line to go to ER. I am worried now that it is 3 weeks since and I still have it. I don't know what to do now. If it is bacterial seems like the antibiotics would have cleared it up by now.
My arm has been sore ever since I took out blood from it and I can't pick up anything heavy. That was over 6 months ago. What do you think the problem is?