Brief Answer: Kindly send details and pictures of allergy Detailed Answer: Hi, Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum. I completely understand your concern for dry skin with aching and allergies in your skin, eyes and nose. The history provided by you is too brief to reach to any conclusive point. Kindly tell me certain important points related to your problems: - Can you elaborate that how the allergies started. If it started from your skin then what was the part of skin affected. Was the dryness preceded the allergies or dryness appeared after the appearance of allergies. - have you ever felt some bumps or red areas along with bumps. Is there any particular distribution or pattern you felt in the manifestation of allergy - Is there any itching or burning or pain sensation over the same. If so then is it mild/moderate or severe. - Any recent change in place or occupation or any routine which you think is important to correlate to your allergies. If you felt any important skin change then it would be best to send few good resolution pictures of areas so that it can be analyzed best. You have a feature to upload images by yourself at the right side of the query page, please utilize that so that I can answer your queries better. Or else, you can send as an attachment to YYYY@YYYY with the subject as "Attn: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia). Hope to hear soon from your side. "With good health wishes" Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia MD- Dermatology

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Brief Answer: Allergic Contact dermatitis Detailed Answer: Hi, After getting all the details and thoroughly analyzing the pictures I can make out the best possibility of "Allergic Contact dermatitis" or in simple words allergy to contact of some allergen material on skin. To explain you elaborately and simply about the possible condition - This is a simple condition where due to multiple factors or agents coming in contact with skin can cause mild to moderate changes on the skin. The first sign of it is always redness over the affected part. There can be any agent which previously was not causing the problem but now suddenly because of mild increase in intensity caused the problem. This can be further aggravated by simple sweating or cold, sun exposure or anything present in the environment. To identify the exact cause you just keep a close watch on the area so that you can find a relevant important cause coming in contact few hours prior to the occurrence of redness. In my view it can be due to environmental factor such as pollen grains in air or any other environmental agent coming in contact during outing. This is because of the fact that you are getting irritation of eyes as well as nose along with skin which most commonly gets irritated due to factors in the environment. This is a quite simple problem which we see in our day to day practice and persist for only the time till the aggravating factor is present. So the most important part in your management is avoidance of the aggravating factor enumerated all above. For the betterment kindly follow the suggestions below: 1. Avoid direct sunlight and hot– humid/ extreme of climate. 2. Wear cotton clothes and avoid synthetic clothes. 3. Stay in cool environment(preferably AC) and avoid sweating. 4. Take two time bath once in morning and at night time which will soothe your skin and prevent the aggravation of the problem 5. Do not Pinch pop or squeeze or rub any area. 6. Do not use any deodorants or any cosmetics over and near the affected area. 7. Do cold compression over the affected area. Take a wet towel soaked in cold water and apply it for 5-10 minutes for 3-4 times a day. For the part of treatment kindly follow the suggestions below: If I were your treating dermatologist then would have prescribed you to apply “fluticasone” cream gently in a thin layer for two times a day under medical guidance. A pea size amount on finger tip is sufficient for palm size skin. Do not continue it beyond 7 days or if at all using then only under medical guidance. For the irritation or itching is I would have suggested you to take tablet “Loratadine” by mouth up to two to three if the itching is more. This is very safe tablet and never cause any problem in persons with high blood pressure. You can ask your dermatologist to go for "patch test" which gives an idea about most probable allergen causing the problem. I hope these information's will help you. If you have further queries I will be happy to help. "Wish you good health" Regards, Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia MD (Dermatology)

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Brief Answer: can take Loratadine or Des-Loratadine (Aerius*5mg) Detailed Answer: Hi, As I suggested before you can take Loratadine or Des-Loratadine (Aerius*5mg) for up to 3 times. It does not affect the blood pressure and is very safe tablet. So you can take the tablet without any side effects. This is the main tablet which actually is very helpful in reducing itching sensation. I hope it clears all your doubts. Regards, Dr Sanjay

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Brief Answer: best wishes of early recovery Detailed Answer: Hi, My best wishes for you to get ealry recovery form the problem. If you have any furhter queries then I will be happy to help or if you do not tehn can close the discussion and rate the answer. With best wishes of early recovery, Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia MD

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