Red, very dry and painful hands since infection

Skin, nail and hair health
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Hey all -

About 5 days ago I got myself a nasty chest infection (those of you that read my last discussion will know that biggrin and about a day or so in my hands began to rash up, get painful on the fingers and when they are too hot I can barely bend the fingers. I suffer with chilblains and bad circulation (raynauds syndrome) but this doesn't feel like blains, it's not lumps it's more a covering of red over the fingers on the front and the back of the hand in patches. Very odd, hot and painful - any ideas what it could be? I did look at Cellulitis but that doesn't seem to be it, they aren't swollen. Ta

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It sounds rather like an allergy to penicillin but, with your history, is it connected to Raynaud's?

Were you taking an antibiotic for your chest infection?

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Hiya - no, I won't take antibioticals unless I'm on deaths door

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Have you read the leaflet on this site, about Raynauds?  What you describe does sound like a phase of Raynaud's

https://patient.info/health/raynauds-phenomenon

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For a chest infection with having pain without swelling need to be diagnosed with blood samples and urine.