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[gartonator]

Yo all,

I've been on the continent for one week now, living in Taejon, and I've had a rash on the back of my thighs and butt the last few days. Small, lots of 'em, not too itchy unless I accidentally scratch them. Just on the back of the thighs and butt...

I've drank some tap water a few times. That might be it. I keep forgetting when I brush my teeth and drink a cup out of habit.

So I'll quit drinking tap water, but just wondering if anyone else has had a rash and isolated the cause... are there chiggers here? bed bugs? certain vegetable allergies? some horrible mosquito parasite that's planting eggs in my *beep*? I had a rash over my entire body in Mexico once, and I didn't drink any water there... it sucked, but it disappeared once I was back in the states.

I also feel lightheaded a lot, but that's probably just jetlag/exhaustion/holy-sheet-I'm-in-Korea.

thanks for reading - and on a side note, anybody up for some billards in Taejon? I can see a big hall from my apartment window.

[OiGirl]

Are you in your own apartment? Had a terrible case of flea bites from a cheap hotel room once. It just happened to be during a major measles outbreak...

Used to always get indeterminate rashes in the summer...sometimes diagnosed as fungal, sometimes contact dermatitis. Are you using toiletries from home or local brands?

If it's within the bounds of modesty, you can always take your rash to a local pharmacy, show it to the pharmacist, and ask for something. That's how my "fungal infection" and "contact dermatitis" were "diagnosed." (Not really: they gave me a cream and I looked the drug name up on the Internet to figure out what they thought I had.)

[ChuckECheese]

[gartonator]

thanks for the help, maybe I'll go show a pharmacist...

[Qinella]

Maybe you could find a dermatologist.

[jaganath69]

Did you love a woman who was unclean?

[essexboy]

do you wear diapers?

[kigolo1881]

please dont tell me that you sat down on those squat toilets. lol!!!!!

[cwemory]

dermatologist here are really cheap, only about 10,000won a visit. their english is usually pretty good too. go to one. In Korean, it's 피부과 의사, pee-boo-gwah-wee-sah.

most likely a pharmacist would just give you a small generic topical ointment that you'd only be able to apply a couple of times before having to return for a refill.

[OiGirl]

So what was your rash????