What’s this rash on my breast?

Symptoms:

6You’ve developed a rash running in a single stripe of blisters around one side of your chest affecting the skin of your breast. It’s excruciatingly painful.

You’ve developed 6

a sore rash underneath your breasts which despite fastidious hygiene keeps coming back and the skin remains damp, red and itchy.

Shingles, a viral Contact your doctor

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infection caused by the promptly to confirm the varicella zoster virus, the diagnosis so you can have same one that causes chicken prescription antiviral drugs to pox. The virus lies inactive in soothe, heal and reduce the nerve tissue and years later risk of complications. may reactivate as shingles.

Candidiasis, thrush,a

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yeast/fungus infection which has taken hold in the warm, damp crease underneath your breasts. Candida lives on the skin but is usually kept under control by normal bacteria. You’re over 50, Paget’s disease which

6 the skin of your usually signifies an nipple is getting scaly underlying cancer. It’s easy and hard, spreading into to mistake the signs for the areola, it’s also simple skin irritation. Don’t. itchy and red.

6 It could be: Stop it:

See your doctor for an 6

examination and anticandida cream. And check if you have thrush in your mouth or your bowel and eradicate that too.

See your doctor as soon 6

as possible for a diagnosis and referral to a breast unit for full investigation and treatment. Examine your breasts monthly so you’re always aware of any changes.