Development to Nytrile/Elastic gloves

[Wooley]

hello - let me give a brief history. Been in the Semiconductor field for 20years and am required to wear either nylon or nytrile gloves, sometimes with a cotton/elastic liner.

Developed a 'rash' in the past 3 months. Started on the wrist then spread across the tender area of both hands between fingers/top of hands. I call it a rash but it is more like very tiny blisters that will weep a clear slippery fluid. And of course, very itchy and burning. Eventually the blisters open and go away then left with dry and splitting skin.

One thought is that it could be a reaction to my own sweat, the cotton liners become saturated quickly depending on activity. I am trying to change the cloth liner more often, to keep a dry barrier against my hands.

My treatment of late has been to allow my hand to dry. Then apply liberal amounts of Vaseline.

Thoughts from others that may be in the same industry?

I've tried attaching a photo, i hope it came through ok.

Thanks everyone

Hi Basement, welcome to the club!

That looks very sore!!  I had palmoplantar pustular psoriasis, which affects hands and feet, but it doesn't look like mine, that said it can come in many different forms etc so you should go and get it checked out by your doctor / dermatologist for sure.  It also looks a little bit like pompholyx (a kind of eczema), which can be caused by many things, detergents, sweating, soap, metals.

I am certainly no doctor though, so you should get it checked out when you can.

Good luck!

Wooley