Usually yes. The incidence of sweat herpes has little to do with seafood, and generally does not need to be avoided.
Hydrosis, also known as eczema herpetiformis, is a recurrent vesicular skin disorder. The lesions are often on the skin of the palms/soles, fingers/toes. The typical presentation is many blisters the size of rice grains to mung bean, which are usually itchy.
Sweat herpes, picture source: Zhang Jianming’s “Diagnostic Atlas of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases”
Its pathogenesis is not very clear, but it is mostly considered to be related to sweating of hands and feet, and it is also an allergic reaction, which is high in spring and summer. In addition, it is also related to local infection, metal, chemical stimulation, allergic constitution, etc., and some of it is related to family inheritance.
Because the disease mainly occurs in the hands and feet, and is related to local sweating and contact, it is usually not required to avoid food.
If the patient has experienced aggravated rash or increased itching symptoms after eating seafood in the past, then don’t eat seafood; if there is no similar phenomenon, eating seafood has no effect .
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Niu Guowei, Attending Physician of Dermatology and Venereology
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Li Jin Attending Dermatology Physician
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