When cleaning my tank every week I sometimes brush against palyathoa, or touch little critters in the bottom of bucket that get syphoned out of the gravel and I want to put back into the tank.
This never caused any issues for me before, but over the past several months this has started to cause contact-Dermatitis (swelling, hotness, redness, itchiness) on my fingers that lasts for 3-5 days. Benadryl seems to help, but I'm sick of spending half the week in a benadryl-fog...
I think I need to start wearing gloves more often, but this can make it tricky to do some things like ripping up nuisance algae or picking little starfish/copepods out of the gunk in the bottom of the waste water bucket.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any techniques to neutralize your skin after exposure or methods to reduce conditions after it's too late?
This never caused any issues for me before, but over the past several months this has started to cause contact-Dermatitis (swelling, hotness, redness, itchiness) on my fingers that lasts for 3-5 days. Benadryl seems to help, but I'm sick of spending half the week in a benadryl-fog...
I think I need to start wearing gloves more often, but this can make it tricky to do some things like ripping up nuisance algae or picking little starfish/copepods out of the gunk in the bottom of the waste water bucket.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any techniques to neutralize your skin after exposure or methods to reduce conditions after it's too late?