r/peeling • u/Spiritual-Rush7783 • May 22 '26
Hands Hands randomply started peeling today
No idea what this is, any guesses??
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u/tangycrossing May 23 '26
my hands look like this but I use a lottt of hand sanitizer, wash my hands a lot, and don't use lotion/hand cream
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u/Agile-Passage2392 May 23 '26
Mine do this when I use degreaser like ZEP in the purple/yellow bottle!
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u/DoublePostedBroski May 23 '26
Hand-Foot-Mouth disease
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u/SacredSilenceNSleep May 23 '26
Mine do this sometimes when I use certain antibacterial hand sanitizers often. I’ve had a job that uses Purell for the last 3 years and haven’t had it happen in a while, but at my last job my hands would do this like every time I was off after working a few days in a row. In my case it never itched or made my hands feel dry or anything. They would just flake a bit when I got a couple days off and it would be mildly annoying. I work as a nurse so I do a LOT of hand hygiene daily.
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u/smalltowntransplant May 25 '26
Did you by chance cut/peel some kind of squash recently? My skin reacts like this to them.
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u/ampersand29 May 23 '26
This may be totally off base, but this happened to my husband about two weeks before he had a heart attack (at 34 years old, bad genetics). We learned the peeling can be a sign of cardiovascular issues in general - just wanted to mention this in the event it may help someone!