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First off...we have no diagnosis yet. No testing even. (Lack of insurance issues...I'm working on it...)
Even so, I'm curious about something. I wonder if anyone has any experience with bright red, peeling palms and soles of feet. I mean peeling like it almost appears as though the skin is shredded, yes shredded.
My son is 9yo. I'm beginning to seriously suspect congenital Lyme because of other things that I won't get into here. Right now I'm just kinda curious about the palms and soles thing.
Since he was an infant (like 3mo-ish, I think?) he has done the bright red and shredded peeling thing with his palms and soles every few months or so.
Actually I think we had about 2 years where he didn't really do it much, and I'd about written it off as over and done with, but lo and behold at church last night I noticed red palms with shredded peeling skin peeking out from under the dirt.
(he'd been playing hard right before church...what can I say? He's a 9yo boy! lol).
I researched and researched the hound out of things when he was little trying to figure this out. All I ever came up with was Kawasaki Disease, which I knew he'd not had.
I even asked his ped. about it once when he was about 2.5 ish (?). She didn't know and seemed totally unconcerned. We just put up with it after that and gave up finding a reason.
Chris, mom to 2
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I remember 9 yrs ago in the summer and becoming ill with this flu like illness and my feet peeled. It was the strangest thing I'd ever seen. (at that time in my life)
Last summer both my grandsons had strep throat. Well, 7yr old tested positive, 4 yr old tested negative, but had the exact same symptoms as his brother.
Both of their hands and feet peeled. The ped doc told me that was seen often with strep infections???
Made me wonder about myself and the beginning of this flu-like illness in '99. Did I have strep infection then on top of lyme? Or was strep the straw that broke the camels back?
I don't remember being tested for strep back then? Just remember being positive for Epstein Barr Virus (adult mono). But the doc suspected it was lyme early on.
Put me many combinations of abx. Doxy, amox, ampicillian, Z-pack for 2 mths. Nothing killed it????
Went off abx for 2 mths, because the virus came back positive. I then had over 40 sx of lyme disease at the end of that no abx period.
Three years later with many different combos and different abx? Still had the flu-like illnes. I've had several known embedded ticks since '05.
I was abx free for 5 yrs and improving (not well, just good days and not so good days) and now I've started levaquin abx last week for suspected staph/strep infection?
Levaquin is the abx most seem to improve on with bart, strep or staph infections? My body is not happy that's for sure.
Pam
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When I first became sick 18yrs. ago, I had a rash on the soles of my feet and palms of hands that migrated too my legs and arms. I then peeled just as you've mentioned. Interesting, My soles of my feet and palms get red, a strange texture and then peel. This is happing to me and my son right now. This has happened twice shortly after starting new treatments. So, while I can't tell you why, as my DR. doesn't even know. It is happening to me and my son also. PLEASE try to get tested A.S.A.P. I reccomend IgeneX. God Bless
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