Unknown Skin Condition, Please Help
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:13 am
Hi everyone,
I was looking for some advice on behalf of my boyfriend. He's had this skin condition for about a year, it came suddenly out of nowhere (he's never had any skin problems before). It flares up like this and becomes an itchy, weepy, flakey sore patch. It covers his hands, lower back, neck, bottom and bits of his legs, mainly behind his knees. When it is bad it prevents him from working (he's a chef).
He's seeing doctors and a specialist once a month but no one knows what it is. He's currently on immune suppressants and steroids and his hands especially are still bad. The medicines are making him poorly and aren't fixing it, I know skin problems are complicated and hard to treat sometimes but it seems like it would be a better idea to try to find the cause rather than treating the effect? I don't know! It's really affecting him and I hate to see him in so much discomfort. He's so itchy and his clothes and bedsheets stick to him. He's now scared to use most shampoos, shower gels, washing powders etc because they seem to irritate his skin further. He has a special hand wash from the doctors that he uses and we make sure that everything is hypoallergenic and gentle on skin.
It's really affecting our lives and he is quite down about it, I was hoping for some advice on what else we could do because I've ran out of ideas! If anyone has any ideas on what it could be, what's causing it or who to contact to help get this sorted I would be really grateful.
Becky xx
I was looking for some advice on behalf of my boyfriend. He's had this skin condition for about a year, it came suddenly out of nowhere (he's never had any skin problems before). It flares up like this and becomes an itchy, weepy, flakey sore patch. It covers his hands, lower back, neck, bottom and bits of his legs, mainly behind his knees. When it is bad it prevents him from working (he's a chef).
He's seeing doctors and a specialist once a month but no one knows what it is. He's currently on immune suppressants and steroids and his hands especially are still bad. The medicines are making him poorly and aren't fixing it, I know skin problems are complicated and hard to treat sometimes but it seems like it would be a better idea to try to find the cause rather than treating the effect? I don't know! It's really affecting him and I hate to see him in so much discomfort. He's so itchy and his clothes and bedsheets stick to him. He's now scared to use most shampoos, shower gels, washing powders etc because they seem to irritate his skin further. He has a special hand wash from the doctors that he uses and we make sure that everything is hypoallergenic and gentle on skin.
It's really affecting our lives and he is quite down about it, I was hoping for some advice on what else we could do because I've ran out of ideas! If anyone has any ideas on what it could be, what's causing it or who to contact to help get this sorted I would be really grateful.
Becky xx