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Blood Red Blisters...?


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Tuesday night I decided to test my reaction to eating gluten (I'm undiagnosed, no way to see a doc right now) so I ate some chicken noodle soup and chocolate chip cookies. A few hours later I noticed 2 tiny blood red blisters on my right forearm (literally looked like blood). There was also a third bump that was a lighter red (the usual color). Today the two blood colored ones have faded to the typical lighter red and itch more. I just am never sure what is going on, whether this is DH or not. In fact if it weren't for the appearance of these itchy bug-bite like bumps two years ago I probably would have dismissed celiac disease altogether and chalked it all up to anxiety/depression (with all their wonderful attendant physical symptoms) and IBS/mild acid reflux. I'm still not clear on the nature of DH as my rash never has a pus-filled center (except for two outbreaks of clear, non-red water blisters on the backs of my hands, but which didn't itch at all). This is such a confusing thing... a trip to the doctor and some testing would make this all easier but I have no job/money/insurance right now (thanks to how I feel all the time).

so the tiny blood red blisters eventually fading to a lighter red... anyone experienced this?

What other kind of rashes appear like red bug bites that itch off and on and occasionally burn? They are not bug bites (they persisted even when living in another city). Not scabies. They do not look like pictures of hives I have seen. I really feel it has to be a food intolerance. Although, as a side note, whenever I get bitten by a mosquito now the bite swells up unlike any mosquito bite I have had before, which suggests increased histamine (I think)... note sure if that has anything to do with DH or whatever it is I have.

I don't know if continuing to post here about it is going to clear it up, but I guess it can't hurt...


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One type of psoriasis (guttate) produces tiny blisters that look like drops of blood.

I just started reading a book that might appeal to you: "Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative." It talks about healing your skin from the inside out by healing your intestines.

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Thanks. I don't think its a coincidence that when my abdominal distension/bloating first appeared that simultaneously with it I first developed rosacea redness and neither have completely left since. so I definitely think there's a gut/skin connection...

As for psoriasis, I will have to look in to that more. But what I've read of it and the pictures I've seen didn't seem to match up. I have never gotten the blood red bumps before and now they are the normal color of light red.

Actually, someone recently posted their DH pics here, I think it's a few posts down (curiousgeorge was the poster) and the bumps I get look like that, but minus the clear-looking/pus center. instead it's all that same color/size red.

One type of psoriasis (guttate) produces tiny blisters that look like drops of blood.

I just started reading a book that might appeal to you: "Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative." It talks about healing your skin from the inside out by healing your intestines.

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I get tiny little bumps on my hands (and arms if it gets bad enough) when I've been glutened. I had a biopsy and my dermatologist called it "acute dermatitis." It started showing up after I went gluten-free... the closest explanation I've seen is an "id reaction" (also known as "autoeczema").

Whatever you call it... I agree about the gut/skin connection!

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