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I only am saying pregnancy rash because I never had it before I was pregnant!!!

2 months pregnant I got a rash on my back and some burning in my hands. I went to my GP, he said the back looked like ring worm, and my hands weren't real bad so he dismissed it really.

I went to my OBGYN a couple weeks later with no improvement (hands were getting worse, started cracking and burning more) she said to put a different cream on my ringworm and to use the cream my GP gave me for my back on my hands.

I didn't use it on my hands, just because that rash comes and goes.. to no known pattern I can figure out.

Last night it flared up and it was so bad.. it burns so bad, felt like my hands were in an ant bed!! I tried healing lotion, felt worse.. washed that off and tried aloe vera, didn't help much.

Anyone seen anything like this or know someone (pregnant or not) that has had something like this and what to do to treat it?

I think both my docs were too concerned with the ring worm to pay much attention to my hands. I think it feels a million times worse than it looks.. but its across the top of my knuckles and up my thumb (both hands). On my right hand it's also on my joint knuckles.

I have no known allergies.

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I have allergies, and sometimes they come out of nowhere where my hands are primarily affected and are red, itchy, sore and sometimes swollen. I never could determine the source - it was almost like a fluke and didnt matter if I was pregnant or not. It sounds like an allergy to me.

If it is an allergy, is something like a lose dose of benadryl acceptable during pregnancy. Another option could be a clear calamine lotion to ease irritation.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I also had a small rash on my chest and was told it was ringworm. I just about had a heart attack because it just sounds terrible at first. I remember I had a cream and it went away. Strange thing is, I have only had it once in my entire life and I happened to be pregnant at the time, 16 years ago. It was also on my chest - so how on earth did I contract it, noone else in my family had it. I can tell you my chest was not likely to have been exposed to the elements, lol.

It seemed like an odd fluke at the time, but now you are experiencing the same.

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Well I thought it odd too, my GP said he thought it was either ringworm or (something else that has a herald patch and goes away on its own) so he told me to put hydrocortizone & lamisil on it. I did that for a week with no change, so I decided it's not ringworm. That week I took all my animals in to be checked for ringworm-- no one had it. My husband doesn't have it either. OBGYN said she thought it was ringworm, and to put lotrimin on it. I didn't for a couple weeks, about 2 weeks ago I finally started putting it on regularly and the rash is going away.. so maybe it was ringworm. It never itched, and I had 2 round circle rashes but neither emptied in the center like ringworm does. They were both on my back.

Again, I really am not concerned about that part, though I did find it odd. I'm not a rash kind of person, I can't remember the last time I got rashes.. since a kid w/poison ivy!!

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It could be Yeast Infection. You need to confirm that the itching, flaming and redness that you are experiencing is decisively a yeast infection.

These symptoms are furthermore widespread in bacterial infection and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. It is significant for the wellbeing of yourself and your baby that you confer a doctor to confirm precisely what is initiating your symptoms so you can be treated appropriately.

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It could be Yeast Infection. You need to confirm that the itching, flaming and redness that you are experiencing is decisively a yeast infection.

These symptoms are furthermore widespread in bacterial infection and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. It is significant for the wellbeing of yourself and your baby that you confer a doctor to confirm precisely what is initiating your symptoms so you can be treated appropriately.

She conferred with both a General Practitioner and the OB Doctor . . . but they didn't have a decisive answer.

Laura, do you still have the rash and did the doctors say anything else about it?

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Right, both my OBGYN and GP kind of wishy-washied about it, neither of them came up with an answer (neither seemed concerned either, but they were concerned about the rash on my back-they thought it was either ring worm or something syphillis). It wasn't syphillis (duh), so they treated it for ring worm and that did go away.

My hands are still cracked & rashy, but it flares up more-so in cold weather. Psoriasis is prevalent on both sides of my family, so my dad let me use his psoriasis cream on it. It does help, so I guess that's it.

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