So, my thumbs have, for the past 5 months, been constantly going through a cycle of cracking, then peeling, cracking, then peeling, and nothing is helping. I've tried using tons of neosporin on them, using cocoa butter, aloe vera, and have been using cerave healing ointment almost every day for months on end, but it only temporarily makes them softer, before they harden back up a day, or hours later. What the frick do I do? How do I fix this shit?
I think it may have been caused by my thumbs constantly being exposed to heavy duty cleaning chemicals from my last job all the time, but I'm not totally sure.
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Eat more protein.
You might have eczema. Shower in latex/nitrile gloves and moisturize your hands every time after you get them wet
That's not a pic of my hands. It's a pic I found. The rest of my skin on my hands is normal and A-OKAY, but just the tips of my thumbs are fricked for some reason, getting hard, and then splitting, leaving them exposed and bleeding for a day, and sore for several days afterward, until the skin dies, and then I peel it off leaving it raw and sensitive, and I think it's finally healed, only for it to harden back up again. It's really getting on my nerves.
Stop picking your skin moron. Get some Vaseline and nitrile gloves and put them on with the Vaseline on your hands when you go to sleep. Wake up to soft hands.
>Stop picking your skin moron.
I have to when it creates loose hardened flaps that irritates the skin when it's dead.
USE A FILE FFS AND MOISTURIZE YOUR HANDS DAILY
Yeah Vaseline really is the nuclear option when it comes to this kind of thing. If you do the Vaseline and gloves thing for a month and your thumb is still fricked you have to just cut it off.
Your skin looks unhealthy as frick. Are you eating stuff with vitamin E? Nuts and seeds?
1) stop liting weights
2) stop eating goyslop proteins
3) start eating vegetables and fruit
Saw dust does this to me, happens when I'm woodworking (actual woodworking, not working my own wood). I cover my thumbs with liquid bandage for a couple days.
I work with a lot of cardboard now, so it may be a heavy factor, but even before that, I was starting to get issues. Liquid bandage sounds like it might just be a quick fix and not a permanent solution.
>work with a lot of cardboard
get gloves
stronger, professional grade creams
I had this for a few years and it comes back sometimes. I think it's an allergic reaction. Doc put me on antibiotics but they didn't do anything.
I take an allergy tablet every day, sometimes 2 and I think that's what's keeping it under control
I heard from someone else that this may be the case, but an allergic reaction to what? And why would the reaction just be on my thumbs?
What allergy tablets you take?
omega 3 fish oil and selenium
moistuirse your hands
I have this in my entire fricking body. It always goes away when it's not colder than -20°C outside. Currently the weather is arctic AF here and it's like -30°C outside and my heating doesn't work so it's freezing inside the apartment as well. My entire fricking skin is cracking and bleeding. Even my dick skin is cracking and peeling. My dick looks like a fricking mummified sausage and it hurts really bad.
Damn man, sorry to hear that.
Get a humidifier, and moisturize as much as you can.
Pic related, put a good amount right before sleep. You'll than me later.
>wear gloves when handling chems
>wear winter gloves
>at night put vaseline on your hands then wear socks on your hands likes gloves
>cut off the dead skin
>wear a bandaid to stop picking at it
I used to have this problem as a teenager. My hands were constantly white and cracking/bleeding from the dryness. No matter how much vaseline I slathered on my hands, they would still crack and bleed. I was also underweight and would get light-headed/faint if I stood up too quickly. I don't know what the problem was exactly, but once I started eating and drinking more after high school, the problem went away. I also started eating healthier (lots of chicken, veggies, and fruit) so that may have been a factor.
Stop asking about it on the internet, schedule an appointment with a derm, call your regular doc to ask for someone he recommends if you don't know a good one. Your doc will submit a referral, and if you have insurance, you'll pay $20 and she'll point you in a much better direction than any strangers on the internet will be able to point you in. If you don't have insurance, you'll probably pay $100 and it'll still be worth it. Especially since this has been like this for the past 5 months and you have past cleaning chemical exposure.
Anything skin related, go to a doc, my ex had a cut that got infected and her regular doc just shrugged it off and said let it heal, finally went to a derm and she prescribed like 3 things and it was gone in 2 days.
It's dry skin, not an infection. OP should try everything in his power to correct it on his own before resorting to ~~*doctors*~~. Change in diet, drinking more water, moisturizing. All of those are easy, cheap changes with no side effects. I could maybe understand your post if OP had incurable eczema or a serious rash or something.
>dude your dry cracking bleeding thumb you've had for 5 months? just change your diet
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>bro just drink more water duh?
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OP already stated all the different moisturizers he tried, CeraVe is a top tier brand. That given his past chemical cleaner exposure suggests that it deserves moving up to the next step. Going to a doctor for a health condition that's existed for MONTHS isn't "resorting", it's common sense. I sympathize with trying to go the "try other stuff" route but OP already did that. Your anti-doctor sentiment is just as moronic as the "oh my science" gays who worship them. Find a better balance. A derm is cheap too unless you're moronic and don't have insurance, in which case one visit is still likely cheaper than all the products OP bought (CeraVe isn't that cheap)
Legit, the only time I had that was on two separate courses with the army. This happened on both sides of my nails on my thumbs and a few fingers. It was awful, I wasn't able to even operate a zipper without being near tears. This never happened to me outside of that environment, so what I think causes it is:
1. Not drinking enough water. I didn't have enough water in me because I was freezing and didn't want to fill my tummy with a cold liquid, or I was sweating bullets, despite the cold, which exasperated the problem.
2. Working a lot with my hands and working hard with my hands.
3. Eating like garbage, no protein or any micro nutrients which contribute to making health.
4. Dry and dirty hands. My hands were always filthy because I'd go two weeks of roughing it without running water and getting into the worst fricking dirt and messes, so my skin was never clean. Also because of the abuse and dirt, they were always dry. Put some Working Hands on them.
5. The cold. I think the cold really contributed to fricking my skin up, really does a number since my skin is sensitive too.
>t. weekend zogbot.