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Is It Normal To Have Skin Rashes After Two Stem Cell Transplants For Multiple Myleoma?
My brother has had 2 stem cell transplants for multiple myleoma. I s now off chemo and many medications. In the last year he developed a skin rash-chronic-that made his skin peel off in flakes and the itching was terrible alsmost uncontrollable!! Looks like psorasis(of which I have). My question is since he has been off most meds, and has now become very weak and fatigued and we just discovered that he has been taking sweeteners , asparatame, splenda, so stopped cold turkey yesterday. He developed diabetes in the last 8 months and they say he has hyperthroidism. Your thoughtrs would be much appreciated. He thinks he is dying. I think it is caused possibly by all the other ingested bad chemicals???
Wed, 22 Jan 2014
Hi,
I can understand your concern for the itching and rash. I can make a possibility of Allergic dermatitis. In Allergic dermatitis there are eruptions along with moderate itching and in more aggravated cases there is appearance of more redness which persist for more than multiple of days.
The only precaution you must follow is not to touch, pinch pop or squeeze any of them other wise it can get infected and can cause complications.
You can apply medium potency steroid cream application of fluticasone cream. You can additionally take antihistamine benadryl or loratadine by mouth.
Take care.
I can understand your concern for the itching and rash. I can make a possibility of Allergic dermatitis. In Allergic dermatitis there are eruptions along with moderate itching and in more aggravated cases there is appearance of more redness which persist for more than multiple of days.
The only precaution you must follow is not to touch, pinch pop or squeeze any of them other wise it can get infected and can cause complications.
You can apply medium potency steroid cream application of fluticasone cream. You can additionally take antihistamine benadryl or loratadine by mouth.
Take care.
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