# Rash on hand (picture included) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936 "2017-01-12T03:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/1 "2017-01-12T03:08:22Z")
I have noticed this discoloration rash on my palm for a couple weeks, it is where my palm touches my mouse pad. I have had the same mouse pad for years though. Here is a picture I took of it today [http://imgur.com/a/U8Zng](http://imgur.com/a/U8Zng) What do you think it is? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/2 "2017-01-12T03:14:21Z")
Looks like eczema to me. ---
**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/3 "2017-01-12T03:42:30Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Looks like eczema to me. I also wanted to add there is no skin peeling or flaking, to the surface the skin feels the same as the other hand. Can it still be eczema? I first thought it might be vitiligo, do you think it might be? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/4 "2017-01-12T18:10:49Z")
[sub]Obligatory[/sub] It’s never lupus. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/5 "2017-01-12T18:27:03Z")
> [@sara20](#): > > I first thought it might be vitiligo, do you think it might be? Looks nothing like vitiligo, which I have. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/6 "2017-01-12T21:46:53Z")
Try changing the mouse pad and see if it improves? Kind of looks like an allergic reaction, but IANAD. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/7 "2017-01-12T23:39:40Z")
What’s the pad made out of…I developed a latex allergy as an adult, would probably manifest similarly. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/8 "2017-01-12T23:55:53Z")
If your hand were in a tub with a child and became water-logged, it might look like this. Are you angry I said that? Good. Use the anger, call your REAL Dr…! Go…! I have no desire to wish you to have a hook on your hand for the rest of your life just because I was weak and wanted to play Doctor… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/9 "2017-01-13T00:09:30Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > [sub]Obligatory[/sub] > > It’s never lupus. Could it be sarcoidosis? Yes I have been bingeing on House lately! Damn you, Netflix attached to infinity… ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/10 "2017-01-13T00:11:51Z")
Obviously leprosy. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/11 "2017-01-13T00:20:54Z")
First stage of werewolfism? I had similar rash last summer from sumac - have you been cavorting with any plants in the poison ivy family? ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/12 "2017-01-13T05:54:13Z")
Looks like a callus. How’s your vision? ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/13 "2017-01-13T13:52:26Z")
What do I think it is? It’s gross, that’s what I think. Hopefully not terminal though. I give you 50 years, 60 tops, to live. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/14 "2017-01-13T15:31:44Z")
You are to be commended for having excess rash in case someone needs it. ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rash-on-hand-picture-included/776936/15 "2017-01-13T19:07:15Z")
Need some gold bond, bro 🙂