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Originally Posted by lacey
I'm sure someone will come up with a case of duck itch...I'm on my way up to the lake and sure enough every year right before I arrive there is a huge outbreak in the area I go and I am always so lucky to get it! UGH
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My seasonal "Duck Itch" was diagnosed by a neighbor; however, it doesn't look
exactly like the photograph. My itch covered much more area and was blotchy; but the same color, intensity, and persistent itchiness. Hot water eased the itch, but it always returned right away -- maybe worse.
A poster on this forum advised that there is also a new "phosphorus allergy" present in Winnipesaukee lake water, and that the quantity of phosphorus had quintupled in recent years. That coincided with my absence of ten years from the lake.
Prior, I had never experienced "Duck Itch" -- or any rash -- but suffered from it
immediately in 1993 at the same acre we'd owned since 1956.
Whatever it is, the prescription given me by the doctor cost only $3. When did you last pay $3 for a prescribed medication?
(The name is in the olde forum
search -- similar sound to "Triamilone")[Never mind...I've found it...
Triamcinolone acetonide. Doctors will write you a prescription
upon request at your next annual examination.]
Lake phosphorus appears to be introduced by detergents and by septic leachate -- about 50-50.
If you swim at beaches, where the kids
really get "Duck Itch", avoid beaches that face into the prevailing NW winds. That concentrates the cercariae.