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Dear tourists!! Let me once again return to the topic already discussed, though two years ago, the topic. Approximately on the 4th-5th day of my stay in Egypt, I get covered in places with a nasty, itchy rash, mainly bends of the elbows, knees, etc. Maybe for This time, medicine has advanced significantly, but I don’t know? Who came across and knows how to cope, help, pliz .. And then soon fly, you need to start drinking something ...
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I must say right away that I have no more problems there, neither with food, nor with water - we have been traveling for a long time, we know all the rules. Although, I admit that maybe their water in the shower ...
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answered 15 years ago
It was always like this for me too, until I moved to Thailand. It's a reaction to the heat. Places of strong sweating become covered with a rash. It passes in 2 weeks and no anti-allergens help. And in your case, I don't even know what to advise. Cooling deodorant helped me a little and local Thais use aloe vera gel in such cases (I don’t remember how to spell it correctly).
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answered 15 years ago
Buy Desitin ointment, if you have a sweat rash, it helps a lot, it doesn’t matter that it is for children. But my friend had this situation: a child in Egypt spilled out, her face was swollen. We thought it was an allergy to the sun, until a month ago We wrote down at home in the pool. The same situation repeated itself, it turned out: an allergy to bleach. Find out for yourself what is the cause of your problem, because if you are allergic to something, then it is naturally treated not like a rash from sweat. We did not try to pass tests for allergens? Handed over to the child, there was a similar problem.
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answered 15 years ago
I absolutely agree with @tana 691, before you start to be treated for something, identify the cause of your rash. Do tests for various allergens, and then the whole picture will become clear.
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answered 15 years ago
I want to join the discussion of the problem of solar allergies, I myself suffer from it. Once in Turkey I even had to do intramuscular injections. But it took 3 days. Sometimes I save myself with Diazolin (only after it I want to sleep :). I wish everyone not to get sick!
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answered 15 years ago
I have this rash every time in Egypt. It's a reaction to the sun. I don't swim in the pool. Saved by Suprastin. I also bought sandalwood oil there. Very well. Try it.
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answered 15 years ago
You can use topical antihistamines - fenistil-gel, for example. And also Lakoid ointment. And allergy pills. I had an allergy to the sun in Egypt, which became acute after attending a foam party with no idea what chemical powder. As a result, I had to go to the doctor in the hotel, get an injection and take pills and ointment. 2 weeks of treatment.
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answered 15 years ago
Thank you, kind people ... Maybe they have the wrong bleach in the pools? We swim here all winter..?
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answered 15 years ago
Not bleach, but water itself. After all, it does not go into the sewerage, like ours, but passes through the cleaning system and is used again for pools, baths and toilets, as well as watering. For water purification, in addition to passive filters, special chemicals will probably also be used.
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answered 15 years ago
Everything is very simple, this is not a reaction to the sun, but to sunscreens. Most of them are real counterfeit, and branded ones very often cause allergies. Chlorine in the pool with here in general has nothing to do with it.
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answered 15 years ago
Please note that a person has a rash in places where there is a lot of sweat "mainly the bends of the elbows, knees, etc.", which means that this has nothing to do with allergies. It's just a reaction to the heat. You need to fight this only by cooling the skin, and not by anti-allergens. Do not advise a person what he does not need, only the body will poison.
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answered 15 years ago
I advise you to order calcium chloride in a pharmacy and drink it two or three times a day - it relieves allergies, or take DIAZOLIN tablets for everyone.
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answered 15 years ago
@Amir1
Absolutely agree with you! Again, do not self-medicate!
@morozova1971
Don't listen to anyone! The people who give you advice don't know you, they haven't seen your rash, how can you treat it behind your back???
Apparently, this is not your first year and not the first time, so why haven't you found out the reason yet? "Reaction to heat", in medicine there is no such thing, this is one of the varieties of allergies. Until you take the test, you won't know what you have? At the moment, only some conjectures and conjectures! And if you listen to everyone and be treated with what they advise, that's for sure, harm your body, as mentioned above.
Absolutely agree with you! Again, do not self-medicate!
@morozova1971
Don't listen to anyone! The people who give you advice don't know you, they haven't seen your rash, how can you treat it behind your back???
Apparently, this is not your first year and not the first time, so why haven't you found out the reason yet? "Reaction to heat", in medicine there is no such thing, this is one of the varieties of allergies. Until you take the test, you won't know what you have? At the moment, only some conjectures and conjectures! And if you listen to everyone and be treated with what they advise, that's for sure, harm your body, as mentioned above.
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answered 15 years ago
As an allergic person with urticaria of unknown etiology, which upon arrival to the seas-oceans necessarily suffers from it a little - I want to give a couple of tips. If you still take pills (ointment, cream or gel as a local remedy is also needed) - in no case do not take the mentioned diazolin, suprastin and tavegil - these are antihistamines, so to speak, outdated. They really make you fall asleep uncontrollably, and some have a severe reaction like after heavy antidepressants (for example, for me, it’s useless to fight until it leaves the body, just wait and drink active coal in the morning on an empty stomach, 1 tab. per 10 kg of weight ). There are excellent remedies - Zirtek (there are also drops) or an analogue half the price - Zetrinal, but any, only they are without a sedative effect, or any of the same simpler ones - Phenkarol, etc.
For topical use - Advantan-cream or gel - it is so easy in terms of harmfulness and the only one among its kind that it is prescribed to infants all over the world. Yes, it is useless to drink medicines in advance. And it makes no sense to do tests, they (doctors) have them for all sorts of nonsense like - tomatoes, oranges, dust (according to the types of ticks in it), etc. All the same, they won’t find anything for it, but you’ll throw out a lot of money. Ride and relax!
For topical use - Advantan-cream or gel - it is so easy in terms of harmfulness and the only one among its kind that it is prescribed to infants all over the world. Yes, it is useless to drink medicines in advance. And it makes no sense to do tests, they (doctors) have them for all sorts of nonsense like - tomatoes, oranges, dust (according to the types of ticks in it), etc. All the same, they won’t find anything for it, but you’ll throw out a lot of money. Ride and relax!
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answered 15 years ago
I completely agree with allenyshka - I don’t believe in the ability of our local “specialists” to determine what I have an allergic reaction to in Egypt. It didn’t happen in Tunisia. And I’m not ready to waste a lot of time on this. After the first time, I went to a dermatologist - the rash then lasts for another week - they looked at me like I was a wild animal and they didn’t help with anything except a chatterbox with menthol (respect to Amir!) And prednisolone ... Five years have passed, but I must remember ...
Many thanks to Alyonushka for practical recommendations.
Many thanks to Alyonushka for practical recommendations.
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answered 15 years ago
oh .. I don’t know about the bends of the knees and elbows, but I had such a rash on my back (the whole lower back)
I suffered for a long time ... probably 2 months ... though I drank suprastin
it also happened in Egypt on 3-4 days. Maybe it's what kind of small living creatures in the sea sting so much?)
this was not the case in Tunisia.
I suffered for a long time ... probably 2 months ... though I drank suprastin
it also happened in Egypt on 3-4 days. Maybe it's what kind of small living creatures in the sea sting so much?)
this was not the case in Tunisia.
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answered 15 years ago
Yesterday we returned from Sharm, and for the first time in my life I finally spent ten days without a rash !!!!! Although the heat is over 40 !!! I drank fepranon for the first three days, then the first signs of Telfast rash appeared with lethal doses. Advantanom. No side effects, I'M JUST HAPPY!!! Thank you all for your help!!
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answered 14 years ago
I also have rashes and itching from the sun. Appeared for the first time in Turkey. I thought either pool bleach or maybe their bed and towel. But this is repeated even in the Sea of Azov. It's clearly the sun. and I mostly have the décolleté and arms. There are no folds, as you understand, on the chest .. Of course, the view is not pleasant and it’s not up to rest ... I’m going to Thailand. Thanks for the advice. I'll post back when I get back!
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answered 14 years ago
bring chocolate and Moscow sausage. Missed you. For fun. I ask everyone - no one has brought it yet :))))))))))))) Soon I will fly to Ukraine myself and buy it :))))))))))
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answered 14 years ago
well, not great. And there is no smell of Moscow sausage. There is only healthy food. And you want a little and spoil sometimes. :))))))))))))))))
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answered 14 years ago
Since this old topic has risen ... and this rash did not bypass me this summer in Egypt, and none of my friends touched me, only me.
Appeared at the bend of the shoulder joint, not even in the armpit, but closer to the chest. Well, not a nice thing, I tell you. How many have already traveled around the seas and oceans and different coasts ... But it was the first time in Egypt and this rash appeared for the first time.
They bought some remedy at a local pharmacy, now there is no name at hand, it helped a little ... And then this "infection" lasted for about a month.
Appeared at the bend of the shoulder joint, not even in the armpit, but closer to the chest. Well, not a nice thing, I tell you. How many have already traveled around the seas and oceans and different coasts ... But it was the first time in Egypt and this rash appeared for the first time.
They bought some remedy at a local pharmacy, now there is no name at hand, it helped a little ... And then this "infection" lasted for about a month.
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answered 14 years ago