Little Red Bumps

[LuvMoosic4life]

For the longest time, on and off, I would wake up in the morning with what appeared to be bug bites on my legs, usually the upper thigh area, they were usually close togetehr, but there was never a center where you could see that something had actually bitten me. Sometimes they'd itch, other times they didnt and took over a week to dissapear, sometimes returning in the same spots or spreading??. My mom always said to wash my sheets every week b/c it was probably just bugs/spiders. BUt washing my sheets and cleaning the hell out of everything around my bed never helped- sometimes it made it worse!!!! I never really noticed the connection, but now that I think about it, when I went gluten free I didn't experience these little red "bites." A few days ago I started feeling glutened, I mustve been CC'd somewhere, but I woke up one morning in the begiinng of it with two of these red bumps right next to eachother on my upper thigh....

has anyone had this? is it really a bug bite or is it a reaction?

I also introduced peanuts again into my diet and am thinking this may have caused part of my reaction, peanuts have always given me a "rashy" break out on my face, not horrible, but enough for me to notice. (and I love peanuts too ) I've also noticed rash like tiny bumps on my chest, and my neck will itch occasionally in the front, leaving a red patch when I scratch...its like I have to keep scratching...i've always had this, but never realized it may be connected to Gluten after going gluten-free. I tend to get an oily face b/c I'm itailan, but I also have dry skin at the same time.....isnt that wonderfuL? haha

[Darkfox021]

Sounds exactly like the rash I have, except I have it mainly on my back and sides. Wife says they look like bug bites. A friend says like hives. The one thing in common, though, is they don't look like the pictures of dermatitis herpetiformis I see on the web, although my doctor diagnosed them as such. As far as I can tell, he's right. Although, my complete diagnosis is still up in the air.

[LuvMoosic4life]

thats interesting. I just looked up pictures of DH. What I have definitly isnt as severe as that, but the red bumps are very similar, only I just get a few at a time/ usually close together. Is is possible to only get one or two?? and I dont ever rememebr having these bumps anywhere else besides my thighs.

The rash I get on my chest resembles more of a heat rash, its the same thing I get on my back, I'm athetic so I dunno if it's from that.... sometimes my arms will itch too.

[GravStars]

has anyone had this? is it really a bug bite or is it a reaction?

I get these too. At first I suspected bug bites but 2 years later, I'm pretty sure they are not. I also only get a few at a time, on my legs or for the past year on my upper arms. Sometimes they itch, sometimes not. I am undiagnosed so I don't know what it is for sure but it does makes me wonder if there's a gluten connection, maybe some mild form of DH? Hmm

[purple]

Look up "chicken skin" (keratosis pilaris)(emedicine.com has good pics)on the web and see if it looks like what you have. My daughter has it on her arms and its not DH. She ate biscuits at work yesterday and she felt like bugs were crawling on her arms and neck. She has not been tested yet but her older sister is allergic to gluten. We are in the process of going gluten-free as much as possible until we are totally gluten-free.

[Rebecca's mom]

You might try looking up "prurigo nodularis". A lot of the people on the forum related to that sound like they may either have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. I have had these bumps for 3 years now, but since I went gluten-free 2 months ago, they are starting to disappear (thank goodness!). Sometimes they itch, and sometimes they don't, which is why my dermatologist never looked at DH. I tested negative for celiac disease through the blood tests, but I am definitely gluten sensitive. Our youngest daughter, age 7, was diagnosed with celiac disease, which is how we started down this rabbit hole in the first place!

Teresa K.

[Lockheed]

Soy does this to my neck but they're not rashy bumps more like welts or blisters but smaller. People frequently mistake it for acne.

[IMWalt]

A few years ago I developed little red spots on my stomach. My doc just said "Hmmmm". After going gluten-free, they have disappeared. I don't know about them being DH, but they are gone now.

Walt