Cozumel Rash/Little Bumps

[jtcon01]

"I'd like to throw in my two cents. I just retuned after diving in Cozumel and I found the same rash most of you are talking about. Little bumps that itch and one big RED rash under where my watch strap was. I believe this to be the stinging coral that is black - somehow a piece got kicked up while snorkeling with my wife and got stuck there. I do have pictures and will post them if necessary. However, my wife is a beauty consultant and she gave me a cream from Elizabeth Arden. It is more a brown gel. It is called 8 hour cream - skin protectant. I was trying everything until she gave me this cream and I first put it on yesterday - today is is crusting and I feel it will be healed within a total of 4 days. I feel no discomfort except from the first application - it burned a bit. The rash is very nasty looking very red with what looks like small blisters. I would suggest the cream. Of course being a man, I didn't want to put any "makeup" on but this is really a brown gel and I can't tell you how much it has helped. That's my two cents for what it's worth. Happy Diving - Jeff"

 

[DandyDon]

I get hit every trip to some extent. My last encounter was around Aug 24 or so, a light brush on the exposed wrist. Never amounted to much but still a few discolored spots; just have to wait for the new skin to grow.

I hope that cute, young bikini diver with us the last day didn't get into it.

 

[jtcon01]

For the third consecutive time, I returned from diving in Cozumel and have found this bit of a red rash with some bumps on my hands.


I have heard nothing but different comments from fellow divers, divemasters, dive shops, pharmacies, and others as to what the underlying cause is, and as many answers as to the cure (you will not believe this, but one diveshop owner said to pee on the rash....TMI, I know, but I thought I would share the laugh).

Usually, after one week or so, the rash disappears.

Does anyone here wish to offer a suggestion as to the cause or the cure?

Thanks

"I'd like to throw in my two cents. I just retuned after diving in Cozumel and I found the same rash most of you are talking about. Little bumps that itch and one big RED rash under where my watch strap was. I believe this to be the stinging coral that is black - somehow a piece got kicked up while snorkeling with my wife and got stuck there. I do have pictures and will post them if necessary. However, my wife is a beauty consultant and she gave me a cream from Elizabeth Arden. It is more a brown gel. It is called 8 hour cream - skin protectant. I was trying everything until she gave me this cream and I first put it on yesterday - today is is crusting and I feel it will be healed within a total of 4 days. I feel no discomfort except from the first application - it burned a bit. The rash is very nasty looking very red with what looks like small blisters. I would suggest the cream. Of course being a man, I didn't want to put any "makeup" on but this is really a brown gel and I!
can't tell you how much it has helped. That's my two cents for what it's worth. Happy Diving - Jeff"

 

[jtcon01]

Obviously I don't know what I'm doing on the board to reply to someone. I'll get it soon, please bear with me

Happy Diving - Jeff

 

[pidgiepoo]

LOL- I'm gonna run right over to Macy's Elizabeth Arden counter and ask a beauty consultant for some of that brown crap that takes care of skin irritation that you get in Mexico. Do ya think I'll be escorted out of the store by security..or will I leave with a bag in my hands ?? Just kiddin..if it works..go for it!!

 

[DandyDon]

Obviously I don't know what I'm doing on the board to reply to someone. I'll get it soon, please bear with me

Happy Diving - Jeff

Who said what here...?

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[pidgiepoo]

I was just kidding him about his Liz Arden cream... having some fun.. not a problem. He's fine..I remember my first few posts...lucky everyone was patient with me...like you Dandy Don

 

[jtcon01]

LOL- I'm gonna run right over to Macy's Elizabeth Arden counter and ask a beauty consultant for some of that brown crap that takes care of skin irritation that you get in Mexico. Do ya think I'll be escorted out of the store by security..or will I leave with a bag in my hands ?? Just kiddin..if it works..go for it!!

First you buy it in the states and second - laugh all you want, but after three days the rash is gone.

Happy Diving,
-Jeff

 

[jtcon01]

I'ts ok Pidgiepoo - I said the same thing to my wife when she suggested it. I can dish it out so I gotta be able to take it too.

Happy Diving
-Jeff

 

[DandyDon]

Well, I am confused on who is saying what to whom exactly, but I would like more info on this...

...a cream from Elizabeth Arden. It is more a brown gel. It is called 8 hour cream - skin protectant. I was trying everything until she gave me this cream and I first put it on yesterday - today is is crusting and I feel it will be healed within a total of 4 days. It is called 8 hour cream - skin protectant.

Having the wound crust over sounds normal to me* and I've been using Hydrocortizone cream or ointment to relieve pain, then waiting for the pain to pass in a few days, the for new skin in a few weeks. So what is better about the "8 hour cream - skin protectant" (sic)...? Faster pain relieve, faster healing, both? Google spelling does not like the work spelled that way, and I am on ATT dial-up today so I am not searching today; is that the word on the tube?

* I had a similar burn on my forehead once, from doing a 6 ft high stride into a jellyfish or something off of NC. Pain, treatment, crusting, new skin in a month - same old drill I always have from those.