Re: the Official Nikki Nova thread
shingles can affect even us youngun's, but there's usually pain associated. It's from having chicken pox... the virus goes dormant in the sympathetic nerve ganglia along the sides of the spine, and when you're stressed or compromised nutritionally or immune status wise, is jumps out and causes pain and a blistering rash... it's dermatomal... since it's in a specific nerve ganglia, the distribution of that nerve is affected... for the c spine that'd be (on the hand) thumb and index, or index through ring, or pinky and inside wrist...
omg i can't believe i just regurgitated that! could be ringworm, which isn't always a ring, and can spread, and is common in sites like airports. staph would usually have a red streak progressing centrally up your arm.
and contact dermatitis (poison ivy) can look very similar... since the oils can be transmitted and spread the irritation, it often has 'skips' rather than spreading directly.
and the treatments? hrmm... sorry, i look at pictures al day, not skin. the old adage was if it's dry wet it, if it's wet, dry it.
In any case, i hope there's NOT pain, and that it resolves quickly. I have a coworker who got a henna tattoo in cabo and came back with not the 'tattoo' but a contact dermatitis rash in the same pattern that lasted for several weeks.
if you haven't changed soaps/ detergents, or started a new med recently, i don't have a good suggestion otherwise.
Pax,
RA