normal help: How to get rid of little, flat, red spots on skin? - Help.com

Are you a ginger kid?

Hahah no.

I have no idea, but I will invite friends to see if they know, check back tomorrow or so to see if anyone responds.

i get those too, i have no idea what they are or how they came ot be, or how they decide to fade evry now and then.

does anyone know this???

Thanks for the invite, Dr.Jackson.

To the OP: The only time I’ve seen what you’re describing is as a reaction to a medication. Is there a chance that you’ve been on any particular medication for several years?

Otherwise: sorry, but I haven’t a clue. You didn’t mention itching and they don’t seem to be causing you any physical discomfort, so I’d suggest that you ask your doctor about them during your next regular check-up visit. Wish I could be more helpful, but I’m stumped. :(

i posted it on medhelp so if i get a reply i’ll forward it to you. i googled but all i found were freaky rashes like keretosis or petechie but they dont look anything like what you describe.

I don’t have the faintest idea. However, I agree with Aries about asking your doctor. Methinks if anyone is capable of pinpointing the name and cause of the mysterious red spots then it would be a doctor.

Good luck.

You mean “freckles”?
You want to get rid of your freckles?

Blest wrote:
You mean “freckles”?
You want to get rid of your freckles?

they arent freckles… i dont think. freckles are on the surface of the skin. if the op is talking about what i think he is, they look ALMOST like they are JUST under.

still no reply on medhelp. :(

The biggest thing wrong with the diagnoses I’ve found online are that they say they go away in a few months/years, but I’ve had the current ones for as long as I can remember. And no, they aren’t freckles…

One explanation I’m seeing is ‘capillary endings’, and the description seems to fit but I can’t find any pictures to compare to… so I don’t know if that’s right.

I’ve heard mentions of something similar to this before…
Do these look like they describe something similar?
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Red_…

DarkSnow wrote:
I’ve heard mentions of something similar to this before…
Do these look like they describe something similar?
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Red_…

i dont think those are them.mi have the same weird little specks but they arent severe or grouped together… i thought it might be that too untill i saw pictures :O this is difficult…

Actually I have a thought, but first, where exactly are all these spots? Chest, hands and wrist are all you listed, is that the only spots?

DarkSnow wrote:
I’ve heard mentions of something similar to this before…
Do these look like they describe something similar?
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Red_…

The description of ‘pinpoint red dots’ sounds about right, but the pictures don’t look much like what I have… Mine are brighter and smaller (except the one big one).

Dr. Jackson wrote:
Actually I have a thought, but first, where exactly are all these spots? Chest, hands and wrist are all you listed, is that the only spots?

Umm, 3 on my hands, 2 on my wrists, 1 on my forearm, 1 on my shoulder, and the biggest one on my boob (that looks like it’s made up of 6 or 7 little ones) :C

Honestly, it almost sounds like an old grease burn to me. When ya cook with grease on a stove top and it splatters it will burn, and those burn marks hardly ever go away. Course I may very well be wrong as I know little about grease burns in general, but what does everyone else think about this?

Ahm, based on the, er, location, I’d guess not grease burns. Though that could cause something similar ^^

There are about 61 causes of red spots. (I narrowed it down to that many, yay. Haha.)
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/symptom…

I have them, too. Not many, but a few, especially near my elbows. (about 5 of them)
My neighbour saw them a few yrs ago (9 or 10) and he told me about a very serious problem that he knew of, bc he’d had the same things. Caused by eating pork that wasn’t quite cooked enough. There were probably about 25 people all show up at the emergency room at the same time. All were very ill. The ONLY thing that they could trace it back to as a common source was that they had all attended a BIG party about 2 months earlier. They had a roasted pork there. All of them ate it. The doc explained to him that this one thing was caused by it. Maybe if you hadn’t had a lot of pork, you wouldn’t have gotten as ill. Maybe you wouldn’t have been able to connect the two things. Anyway, we’re both fine with ours. Our spots are just tiny dots. Like a dot at the end of this sentence. He just needed meds. I didn’t need a thing. I wasn’t even ill. Hope this helps. I don’t know that they ever go away.