Not since I was in my early 20s, and it seems like it’s more common with young people.
Young skin,
dry and thinKids these days with their thin skin… Smh
Moisturizer
Get a brand called Cetaphil and use it on your hands every day or whenever they dry out.
I’ve worked in construction and I like working as a mechanic in my own vehicles … it means my bare hands get exposed to a lot of dirt, sand, mud, metal, oil and chemicals … which means I have to wash with lots of soap and chemicals. In the winter it’s worse in the dry cold air.
So my hands get dry chapped and even cracked and start bleeding. My skin is so cracked and broken now that I can no longer use my finger print ID on my phone. I’ve tried resetting it multiple times but a new crack forms and then no longer works again.
For years I put up with it and pretended I was a man that didn’t need help … but I got sick and tired of it and started using moisturizer and I really don’t care what anyone says about it.
I still get dry cracked skin but not as often and not as severe.
Pain relief O’Keefes. Stuff is miracles.
Am electrician, I carve my hands up all the time.
I swear by O’Keefes “working hands”
It’s one of the few moisturisers that doesn’t leave my hands feeling greasy
I tried a bunch of them including O’Keefes but I’m allergic to something and I’ve had the skin on my hands break out in blisters. I can abuse them with motor oil and auto chemicals but if some weird skin lotion ingredient gets into a crack in my skin, my skin literally just starts to break down for some reason.
Cetaphil is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t have any weird ingredients … it was recommended by the dermatologist that treated me during a really bad break out. Haven’t had a problem since.
Ah man that must suck. At least you found something!
Cerave is even better than O’Keefes
I have similar problems and have found many solutions, but Vaseline and cotton gloves overnight are freaking amazing. Kinda gross though. It’s like the nuclear treatment, afterwhich normal moisturizer works for maintenance.
I don’t blame you … when your skin is literally melting into blistering flesh, you will try anything to save yourself. I remember when it first happened about 15 years ago, it went from a small open sore to full blown skin melting all over my hand, forearm up to my elbow the reaction was so strong. I was bandaged up to the elbow for about a month before I saw a dermatologist and it was scary because I thought I was done for and that it would only get worse.
So any nuclear option that is gross, ugly, weird or just strange is fine by me as long as it works.
Like the old saying … ‘If it looks stupid but it works, then it isn’t stupid’
If having lotion in your hands makes you uncomfortable, try just putting a
Guys, they got Mouselemming
Augh, I’m okay but so embarrassed!
Just gonna add, you can use a stick of lip balm on cuticles!
This appears to be a lack of melatonin. When you get sun, there should at least be some pigment.
Melatonin is what makes people sleep
You’re thinking of melinoma
Melinoma is what makes people have cancer
You’re thinking of melancholyYore thinking of a feeling of sadness, I think the word you’re thinking of is Melania.
Melancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
Melania is what turns people orange. You’re thinking of mitochondria
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
You’re thinking of The Moops.
Guys clearly you’re all thinking of the pasta sauce, Marijuana
Mitochondria is the power house of the cell, you’re thinking of Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles is Hell’s Messenger, you’re thinking of malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne pathogen. You’re thinking of maltodextrin.
This isnt reddit: melanin
welcome to redditfication of lemmy.
Time to move on to telnet mud games.
Yo you playing Achaea? 👀
This isn’t reddit: malicious
No.
Moisturize with lotion, especially if you wash them very frequently or have other underlying skin conditions such as pet allergies.
I used to chew the skin from my finger nails a lot as a kid, not much nowdays, but still do sometimes, I doesn’t happen on its own
If your cuticles do this on their own, or you notice pitting on or under your nails, it might be an early sign of psoriasis.
This one
I did, till I started using soaps without SLS compounds.
It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.
I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.
Yes but I have acral deciduous skin syndrome.
I used to get this all the time. Now, if I get a hangnail, I liberally drench my hands in lotion, and put on nitrile gloves for an hour or so to force it to soak in.
A family friend gets me Gojo Hand Medic, which my fragile masculinity appreciates.
I also found it works well for breaking in leather work gloves.
No! Never! What the hell causes that? Is it a dry skin thing? Looks painful and disturbing.
For me it is biting and chewing the skin around.
When it bleeds I also drink the blood.
Yes, I’m a vampiric who selfcanibalizes myself.
One day I will evolve to Ouroboros
Compulsive skin picking. I wish I could stop, but I can’t.
No.
Please cease existing.
Ok. Where did I put my eye gauging spoon.
Kind of reminds me of peeling a banana.
Wait until this happens to your foreskin.
😬
If you peel it from the other end you don’t get strings. My department in college had a thing about it to the point I don’t like bananas anymore.
I gotta try that.
My girlfriend does this to me during sex. Peels me like a disobedient potato
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You can always trust SatansMaggotyCumFart to chime in with the wholesome memes.
I’m starting to remember his name and I don’t want to 🤢
Stick around for a few more months and you’ll remember them no matter how hard you try to forget. They’re one of the most active users on Lemmy. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to find out they are the most active commenter.
He’s got me by 3x the comments across my accounts I believe. Fairly sure I should still be sad about that, haha
Just put some nail polish on your fingers to prevent it from happening.
I’m not going to tell you how long I looked at this, expecting to find loss or Saddam Hussein.
My first thought was “holding a dick” then I went to these memes
That’s a girthy dick
Aahhh, plucking my fingers. It’s so ingrained in my head that there is some special separate process (that I don’t control) in my brain taking care of this.
My wife will slap my hands when I do it because I asked her to help me stop it but even when in my head I’m like “stop. It. Now.” then one hand just moves to the other and starts plucking and I’m like “wtf, I said stop!”
The one thing that I’ve noticed that helps is prayer beads. I’m atheist, but they work wonders to occupy that little process in my head, I redirect all it’s attention to those beads and so with one hand I’m moving the beads one click forward every half second or so all day long. That works!
Cover each of the tips of your fingers with a bandaid. It will stop you from biting them. Replace as needed. If you remove the bandaid so you can bite them, you have a psychological issue you need to address, usually stress related.
Ooh I know a fun fact about this one.
In Turkey, carrying prayer beads in public as an old person means you are in a gang, while young person means you are a gang wannabe.
Similar to certain tattooos and hats in other countries.
