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Q: Very Itchy Rash
asked by: Memoriam on May 7th, 2009
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I woke up one morning about 4 days ago now with the red bumps on my forearms. They looked like the red bumps you get after a mosquito bite but slightly larger. It has now spread up on both sides of my arms all up to my armpits, I have a few on my chest and stomach, and many on my neck, a few on my face, and some on my outer thighs. It is very itchy and disturbs my sleep at night. I thought it may be chicken pox because our daughter was vaccinated a couple of weeks ago but looking at photo's I see now that it's not. I have tried antihisamines, oatmeal baths, rubbing baby powder on myself, hydocortisone cream and nothing works. I've also tried others advice of trying rubbing alcohol on the wounds, baking soda, and vic's vapo rub on the wounds and that don't work either. Having a bath intesnify's the itching feeling like a burning itching feeling. Some of the sores now have scabs on them now. I don't know if it's from them "healing" or me irritating them by scratching and causing the scabs. I can send pictures if that would help.

Thank you!
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