What Are The Skin Problems To Watch Out For This Summer? - Part 2

Here is the continuation from the previous post

Rashes After Swimming

Making moisturiser important during the summer months, chlorine can dry or irritate the skin. We may notice other reactions like swimmer’s itch that is itchy pink spots caused by an allergy to tiny organisms called shistosomes, sea bather’s eruption where bumps are formed under the swimsuit caused by a skin reaction to the thimble jellyfish, unguiculate found in the Atlantic and the Caribbean as also jellyfish stings often appearing as welts on the skin that comes to be itchy, swollen or tender with a potentially serious infection known as vibrio vulnificus an ocean bacterium leading to skin sores, blisters, and possibly a dangerous bloodstream infection after a dip in the lake, river, or ocean. It may help to rinse with fresh water after a dip in any body of water as it can be hard to prevent or predict these problems. Call your doctor if you develop a severe or painful rash, open sores, fever, or other significant symptoms, while many reactions run their course in a week or two. 

Bug Bites

That one person who winds up with dozens might have a condition called papular urticaria coming as an allergic reaction to bites while no one’s immune to them. Along with protective clothing, bug sprays contain DEET or picaridin helping prevent hem. Along with antihistamine medicines similar to over-the-counter loratadine, cetirizine, fexofenadine, or diphenhydramine, ice packs, cool towels, or a chilled lotion, once a bite has happened, the hydrocortisone cream helps reduce swelling and itching whereas cortisone creams aren’t intended for prolonged use. If you ever have a spot that won't heal, drains, bleeds, or seems infected, call your doctor. 

Poison Oak Or Ivy

Causing such maddeningly itchy rashes as the poison oak and poison ivy plants are very few substances in the world. Causing redness, rash, and even blisters that may persist for 3 to 4 weeks, is their leaves stem, and roots containing a natural oil called urushiol depositing on the skin. 

We could pick it up from clothing or a dog that’s collected urushiol on its fur, whereas the oil is washed away with soap and water so that it can’t be caught as spreading around or being passed to others once we have bathed. Cover areas of skin that may be exposed if you are going to be in the woods, toss clothes directly into the laundry afterward, washing the skin thoroughly with soap and water suspecting if you have made contact, it helps to recognise and avoid the plants were the old saying goes in case you see leaves of three, let them be. If rashes are intense or widespread and in case you have a lot of facial swelling or in case you are not able to sleep due to itching, the calamine lotion and oatmeal baths help relieve itch as a doctor can prescribe cortisone creams or pills if needed. 

Tick Bites

Waiting to cling to unsuspecting hikers, campers, and gardeners, the warmer months are peak season for hungry ticks lurking in grassy wooded areas. Check your skin for critters in case you have been out in the woods or gardening as a tick bite doesn’t feel like anything. Cleanse the site with rubbing alcohol using tweezers to firmly pull the tick out or call the doctor for help if you find one. To be able to spread diseases such as Lyme or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, it is thought that a tick has to be on the skin for 24 hours or more. If you develop redness, rash, fever, aches, and pains, or other symptoms after a tick bite, it is important to call your doctor. 

Margarita Dermatitis

Sun exposure combined with a splash of lime, lemon, or other botanicals leading to a discoloured patch often on the hands or forearms occasionally with blisters or itching comes the most delicious of all skin rashes considered. This unharmful condition usually resolves within two to three weeks through the dark marks left behind could linger for longer called phytophotodermatitis. 

Finally, We Sign Off With A Few Words Of Caution 

Take care of your skin for as long as you go out in the sun exposing the skin to heat and dust. Clean the skin regularly, moisturise regularly, and apply sunscreen every time you step out. All these helps keep in check sunburn as well as blemishes, acne, and pimples. You may need the help of a dermatologist for effective medication and diagnosing the type of condition you are affected with.