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Question: Sudden onset swelling and rash both hands and forearms, and feet and legs, up to and including knees, visibly swollen, HX lyme disease spring 2000. pain in joints of all extremities, onset of rash between 6am today and 11am today. chills but no fever.
Brief Answer:
Taking some antiallergic should help
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.
At this point of time, the rashes could be due to some sort of allergic reaction. In such a condition taking some antiallergic like cetirizine once daily for a few days should be helpful. You can apply calamine lotion or aloe vera lotion for topical relief.
Whether or not there are other cause can be determined only through physical examination. So in case the rashes don't get better after antiallergy medication,o schedule an appointment with your doctor so that he can examine and correlate further.
Be warned that although less likely, if you develop any sort of respiratory distress or edema, you will have to rush to the emergency of a hospital without delay.
Regards
Dr. Kunal Saha
Taking some antiallergic should help
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.
At this point of time, the rashes could be due to some sort of allergic reaction. In such a condition taking some antiallergic like cetirizine once daily for a few days should be helpful. You can apply calamine lotion or aloe vera lotion for topical relief.
Whether or not there are other cause can be determined only through physical examination. So in case the rashes don't get better after antiallergy medication,o schedule an appointment with your doctor so that he can examine and correlate further.
Be warned that although less likely, if you develop any sort of respiratory distress or edema, you will have to rush to the emergency of a hospital without delay.
Regards
Dr. Kunal Saha
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Dr. Prasad
There was no change to the routine or anything to tie this to an allergic reaction. The joint pain began last Friday and continued through the weekend and became acute on Monday morning, with a sudden onset of the rash. As of last Friday and Saturday Cetrizine was taken. Not taken on Sunday. Monday evening it was taken again. No change in the condition as of this morning. The ability to walk has been impacted.
Again given no change to routine, items exposed to, foods or medicines consumed how could this be an allergic reaction?
Again given no change to routine, items exposed to, foods or medicines consumed how could this be an allergic reaction?
Brief Answer:
Could you please upload some images of the affected areas?
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for writing back. Sorry for not being able to respond back earlier.
It is hard to comment without clinically examining you whether the swellings are due to some allergic reactions or something else. Allergic reactions are more probable and could have risen as a response to something which might be a part of our daily routine, something that we never even considering worth noting, for example - dust and pollens. However, in such a case some response to cetirizine was perhaps expected. In such a scenario, I would insist you to share an image of the affected areas. You can upload them using the facility on the upper right of this page.
Waiting to hear back from you.
Regards
Dr. Kunal Saha
Could you please upload some images of the affected areas?
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for writing back. Sorry for not being able to respond back earlier.
It is hard to comment without clinically examining you whether the swellings are due to some allergic reactions or something else. Allergic reactions are more probable and could have risen as a response to something which might be a part of our daily routine, something that we never even considering worth noting, for example - dust and pollens. However, in such a case some response to cetirizine was perhaps expected. In such a scenario, I would insist you to share an image of the affected areas. You can upload them using the facility on the upper right of this page.
Waiting to hear back from you.
Regards
Dr. Kunal Saha
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Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
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