Medical Treatment: Try the following things to protect your skin:
- Wear cotton-lined gloves especially when doing housework or washing your hair
- Avoid things which may irritate your skin like soaps, shampoos, and other household chemicals
- Do not burst the blisters
- Steroid cream and emollients (moisturizers) are used to treat the symptoms of pompholyx
- If your skin becomes infected, antibiotics may be prescribed
- If the pompholyx does not get better with these treatments, a dermatologist may suggest some other treatments
- The recommended treatments are steroid tablets, immunosuppressant tablets or capsules, phototherapy, immunosuppressant creams or ointments, alitretinoin capsules