Dermatitis on neck... barbershop (Reassurance needed)

[gtrain]

I was aware for a while that I had bad dermatitis/eczema on a patch on my neck. I had gone to the barber shop on Saturday and when I was done my stylist asked me if I had cut my neck (presumably from the piece of bad skin). When I got home I took a few photos few my phone, and it did look kind of raw, scabbed and, very dry (despite daily religious lotion applications  ) . A few chunks of skin I could see the tissue underneath the skin.

Not so worried about it, as it's not the first time, and when winter lifts my skin gradually improves, but I'm more worried about having had my hair cut with the eczema in place. I'm mainly concerned about blood-borne pathogens/STD's (you know which ones I'm  referring to) from the electric clipper.  I've never actually seen what sort of sanitation barbers and stylists do to the clippers. In the big bottle of barbesol I've only seen combs thrown in there.

I finally broke and decided to google and to my surprise there were doctor-answered posts on medhelp stating that even in situations where a customer was injured through cuts and nicks by scissors or clippers there was no risk, and no known cases of bloodborne illnesses transmitted through this manner.

My common sense tells me that nicks and minor injuries probably happen all the time and that I'm getting anxious over nothing again. The funny thing is that I DON'T THINK I WAS EVEN CUT or injured. INJURED. She did shave my neck with the clippers though I don't know if she passed the machine through my patch of bad skin... common sense tells me that she wouldn't have done such a thing for her own safety as well.

[JunoX]

The problem is that common sense never helps with HA...lol

Last night I was woken up by a tingling/cold/prickly feeling in my ankle and my mind decided to think I had been bitten by a bat. Well, I live in South Florida and I've never seen a bat my whole life since I've always lived in the city. I recently moved to a more rural area and I saw a real live bat for the first time while outside trying to see the Pan-STARRS comet. It was huge and flew crazily by but not near us. Why I associated last nights ankle weirdness to a bat is beyond me. First, I was inside the car the whole time I was looking for the comet. It was too cold to stand outside. The bat was huge and never came near us. I was wearing socks and pants. If a bat of that size would have gotten in the car, through a few inches of lowered window, me and my husband would have seen it. Not to mention I would have felt the bite. But my mind continued with the "what ifs".

Case in point, you can't listen to your mind. You have to accept the truth. You can't get anything from clippers. Your skin had already been that way. They would not have passed the clippers on a raw area of your skin. Anything else, you can't listen to.

[mollyfin]

If you can't get rid of it, perhaps ask your doctor about a steroid cream.  I had a patch of eczema that wouldn't leave, and that worked wonders on it.  Literally gone after the first application!