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I have a serious rash on the face for 11 days and it keeps getting worse. I saw my dermatologist and she said it was from allergy, but I was taking antihistaminic drugs (Aerius), which she prescribed me, for 7 days and no change. I also have this rash on my arms, legs and chest but not like on the face. In Monday she prescribed me antibiotics (doxycycline) and I see no change to better. I'm feeling like my face will fall of. It burns and sometimes is itchy. I didn't have rubeola(Measles) or chicken pox as a child.

You can see the picture. Please if someone knows what this could be, help me. This is not acne. I had a clear skin while this didn't appear.

Sry for my grammar, English isn't my native language.

Thank you in advance.
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4851940 tn?1515694593
I had a similar problem a couple of years ago.  My facial skin was very red with some pustules, extremely itchy and extremely sore and felt on fire.  I was very embarrassed to speak with people because of it.  People commented how sore it looked.

I was on medication prescribed by a doctor at the time that depleted my body of essential vitamins (especially the fat soluble ones like D, E, K) and I was eating lots of cinnamon.  But I think it was the medication that screwed up my skin.  I stopped using that particular medication.

One doctor prescribed antibiotics for folliculitis (infection of the hair follicles) that did not work and the condition got worse.  Another doctor diagnosed it as Rosacea and prescribed Rosex which is a metronizadole cream.  Within 2 days my skin started to improve.  I had to avoid the sun and wind that aggravated the skin and I stopped eating the cinnamon .  Using the cream and a very high sunscreen blocker, helped my facial skin to recover.  I have not had it back since my skin recovered.  But use the Rosex from time to time when I start to notice slight changes in the skin.

I eat olives and drink lots of water.

I don't know what your other body rash may have been caused by.  But if you get broken skin, bacteria can enter the body and cause a reaction.  Have you been scratched by a plant or animal, or touched any plants?  Rashes can be from bacterial or viral infections, a reaction to certain foods.  Also from environmental factors like chemicals and pollutants in the air.  Also from allergic reactions to soaps, detergents, nickel, bubble baths and so on.

If it has been very hot, you can also develop a heat rash.  

Wishing you a speedy recovery
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google biting mites or morgellons
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    Have you been eating tomatoes?  (Pizza, bloody mary, spaghetti, ravioli, beefaroni)  anything that contains tomato?  Eggplant and peppers too can cause a rash like that if you have Lupus.  You do need to stay out of the sun as that will make it worse.
    I agree that plain yogurt might make it feel better.
If you stay away from these foods and you get better, see your doctor to be tested for Lupus.

     Wishing you the best.
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@ oops29 I think jemma is right about pustule spots.

This is the 13th day I have this rash with pustule spots, and it's burning and know is itchy. This is my 4th day of antibiotic use and it's just getting worse and worse. I have this lesions on my neck to, on my forehead or better to say whole face.

My chin is swolen and I have pain in the region of splenic. About two weeks before this rash I was ill and I had a fever ( 39°C). I feel so week and like I have dyspnea, also have chest pain. I don't have a fever now.

Can this be ant bites? I fighting with them in my apartmant on eight floor. :/ I firstly taught it is allergy from the poison they used for extermination, but antihistaminic drugs (Aerius) did not help for 10 days.

I'm feeling desperately, cause my doctor just told me to keep with the antibiotic until Monday and than to come again.

@jessybaby1  

Thank you I will by extra virgin coconut oil in the hope that it will alleviate the pain and burning of the skin.I just hope I wont get scars, and I do not touch face, although it's itchy. It's not acne, but thank you.

Thank you all. Hope somebody will know what is it.
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4851940 tn?1515694593
You don't get pus filled spots with Slap Cheek.  
The area would just be red with no pustule spots.
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Sounds alot like slap cheek or something similar.
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get to your nearest whole foods and buy extra virgin coconut oil it's an all natural anti-inflammatory and has tons of other benefits ..also drink a lot of water and look into a liver cleanse ....it has been proven that acne is caused by liver toxins...hope this helps
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4851940 tn?1515694593
The rash on your face does not look like Rubella or Chicken Pox.  
Your face rash looks like either folliculitis or a condition called Rosex.

You have not been taking the antibiotic long enough to notice any benefit just yet.  If you face does not clear up with the antibiotic, ask your doctor to consider Rosacea and prescribe you with a metronizadole cream called Rosex.  Keep out of the sunshine and any cold winds.  This can aggravate the skin.  Do not use any soap and keep off all make-ups and perfumes.

The rash on the rest of your body may be as a result of a viral or bacterial infection which the antibiotic will help to clear up if it is a bacterial infection.  Have you changed your washing detergent, any soaps, shower gels, touched any plants or eaten anything that may have been contaminated.  Chicken pox will start off as a rash and develops into blister like spots.  Both with Chicken pox and Measles and Rubella you would have a fever and feel very unwell.

To give you immediate help from the soreness and itchiness, until you see your doctor again, apply natural live yogurt to your face to help ease the discomfort.  

Did you get the rash on your body before or after taking the antibiotic?  It the rash appeared after you started to take the antibiotic, then you need to stop taking it and see your doctor, because that would mean you are allergic to the antibiotic.

Best wishes.
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