Any suggestions on how to find out my cause for rashes?

There are many causes of allergies that causes your rashes. Nobody can tell u exactly what it is unless u remember what happneed througout the day, tell the doctor about it. If not, most rashes, if not all, look the same to me. Some people can be allergic to swimming pool water, some rain while some eggs and many more. So it's really difficult to specify the real causes untill u go through it again

Hi sweetie. The best advice i can give you is to write down what you have eaten. Normally such rashes come from what we eat or drink. If it say, potatoes, leave it for a month and see what happens. Just make sure you write down everything so you can know what kind of food or drink to leave for a while. Hope it will help

Your doctor should be able to administer a series of skin tests to find which substance is causing the allergy. These tests are fairly simple but time consuming. The doctor will use an area of skin which is convenient (usually on the back) and divide it into a numbered grid. Then he will apply very small quantities of different allergens and pri.ck or scratch the skin for each application. Results can often be seen in quite a short time but other types of test may involve you wearing patches for a day or so. It may need several visits to the doctor before the allergen can be positively identified. This kind of test is only usually considered worthwhile if the allergic reaction is severe enough to be very uncomfortable or even dangerous. Yours sounds like a mild reaction and, if you really want to know the cause, you will need to test yourself over several weeks by first removing all allergens from your environment and fasting for at least 24 hours and then introducing suspected allergens in a controlled way, one by one. Because you will not have been exposed to whatever causes the reaction for some time, the reaction should be sharper and more noticeable and you will be able to positively identify it better. Even if your doctor is not familiar with self-testing, he should be able to find reliable instructions for the process (you may have to insist that he does so!) and you should certainly do it under his guidance and with his approval, especially as it requires fasting.

keep a diary of foods and activities that you are doing. one summer i kept getting hives and did that and found out that i was allergic to sevral types of grasses and trees which i then got shots for. the allergy just appeared out of no where!

Hi, ksherrie. I think that you should consider going to an certified Dermatologist so that he/she can tell you what may be the problem in a more exact way. It has to be something that you are eating. Or something that you are coming into contact with. You should narrow every food that you eat and watch for telltale signs so that you can find out what is causing you to break out. Usually an dermatologist may be able to do an skin culture test on your skin to find out what is causing your allergic reaction. I hope that you will feel better and that your allergy issue will be resolved soon. Take care.

The best would be to consult a physician, a dermatologist maybe as they are expert with skin problems. If he is not sure of the root of your problem, he might require some laboratory tests done on you. That would give him a clearer idea of the problem you have.I think you should give up on self-diagnosis and instead ask a professional help.