This appears to me as what the ole time trappers called nutria itch. It is a bacteria infection. your new doctors probably never heard of it. I don't know how to get rid of it. Maybe someone else has heard of it and know the treatment.

the pics are horrible. what part of the body is that? does it itch? is it scaly? Did you cut yourself there? What have you treated it with? How long has it been there? Nutria itch is strongyloides and easily treated with ivermectin. were you in the water? a dermatologist will be able to help you out. go see one this week!

It's on the inside of the leg right below the knee. It looks like its clearing up then when I use the leg and get hot it get all red and purple again. I just began a wide spectrum of antibiotics covering fungal, viral and bacterial. The previous doctor's were just treating for bacterial infections. I am a really fast healer and been in the basin, marsh and salt water environments all my life but never saw any thing like this. I went to this infectious disease specialist and the only good thing so far is that it's not contagious by contact, Don't know if I'm going there again though!!! I saw lots of black mold on the ceilings in the showers. I heard of some bad stuff from feral hogs but I though it was more respiratory jimbob

nutria itch is caught anywhere nutria live. its from round worm larva i think. does your skin look like this? i notice this pic has defined lines like you pics. is that from scratching it?

doorman78 - that picture you posted is not roundworm/nutria itch. That is poison ivy that has been scratched.

I never said it was a nutria itch picture. i just asked if his wounds looked like the pic i posted because they all look like he scratched them alot just like the pic i posted.
Ive had it a few times growing up rabbit hunting salvador. it seeems atleast one person got it every year but the beagles never got it,lol

I did not scratch it! I was afraid to touch it with all the weird stuff out there! That's from being wrapped with gauze and an ace bandage then swelling. Did not want to leave it open around the family, never seeing anything like it before. I was offshore a few years ago when one guy got Staph from sleeping in the bed the guy before him slept in and was a carrier. It was a big deal and there's some bad infections ajax won't take off. This looks better with stronger antibiotics. They think it may have been fungal. Thanks for the replies guys

you need to see a DERMATOLOGIST! The differential diagnosis is wide open for what you describe. It sounds like your docs don't know what you have so you are being treated for a fungal infection, a viral infection, and a bacterial infection? You may need a biopsy. Are your lower legs normally swollen/edematous?

a little blue dawn dishwashing liquid and some water rubbed onto scracthy areas will reduce the itch,,, it kills the posion ivy itch pretty quick too.

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My father has something that looks real similar and has been to dematologist and internist with numerous meds, it gets better and then starts all over again, it been going on for approx. 4 months.
they don't have a clue!!!!

Did they do a biopsy? I began taking Ciprofloxacin 500 mg and Amox/Clav. 875/125 2 times a day each and started yesterday. I originally took the Amoxcillin and was doing well until I ran out but it came back worse the the ER put me on something that seemed to feed it. The infectious disease specialist wants to do the biopsy if these new meds. don't work. My brother n law runs tugs and had to come in a couple of weeks ago. He sprouted a pimple under his nose that grew and popped and he got really sick. Luckily he hit the right Doc cause it was a Staph infection and had gone into his sinus. The Doc told him one day longer and it would of hit the brain and he would of been in a box. Seems to me we are getting lots of this strange stuff since all the illegals began filing into the area. I used some dollar store anti itch salve on the rash and it burned like heck but stopped the itching, I'm too scared to scratch it and cause it to spread. Jimbob

Yes, his started under a watch, and now about the same size as yours. they keep trying different ointments some make it 'ALOT' worse,
Not sure what antibiotics but some were so stong they were making him sick!!!
Keep me posted on what you find out I will do same.

My fishing bud was poked by a shrimp while saltwater fishing and the lesion came to be soon after that. After battling for almost 2 years with a painful horrible looking area on a finger and having several different diagnoses and even more different types of therapies, a diagnosis was made by a dermatologist yesterday of Mycobacterium marinum. Look it up on Wikipedia for more information. Doc said it came from the water and not the shrimp. Thank God it wasn't Vibrio!!!

If you came in contact with 3 corner marsh grass,in fresh or salt water.You got the itch.No fast cure.You got to wear it off & stay away from marsh grass until after the first freeze.The freeze kills the bacteria in the grass untill spring.I started getting the itch while duck hunting about 15 years ago & tried all kind of prescription medicine with no cure.When it itches,dont scratch.Run warm water on it.The hotter the better & eventually it will go away.If this is the first time you got it. It may take months to go away.Every time you get it you become a little more emune to it,if you dont go CRAZY first.The only way i found to not get it,if you cant stay out of the marsh grass is too.As soon as you can wash the area contacted by the grass with a good strong bleach (CLOROX)for about 30seconds.THAN RINCE GOOD WITH WATER.If you wait more than a couple of hours to use the bleach,its to late.The bottom line is all the cotaimination in the water these days is absorbed by the marsh grass & most people are alergic to it.

Im a big fan of bleach... Scratch it with a clean blade and soak it with bleach until you can't take the burn any more. Rense and repeate. But im no Dr.

Two things you can try are regular ole rubbing alchohol and tea tree oil. I am talking straight tea tree oil not those ointments that have tea tree oil as an ingredient.