Someone should do a chart (not me, I'd mess it up) to see which foods people have eaten, what their work/pastimes are, alcohol or not, pets etc to see what matches up!
Also, plants around you that you may have touched - I thought of this after reading that @DrTippie said they were at college then home, so there could be certain plants at or near college that DrTippie could have touched!
I blimmin wish we had the answer, even though I have not had this occur to me.
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Hello everyone! I’ve signed up just to comment because I found this thread after experiencing the same thing!
I have woken up with these same rust coloured stains on my hands on two different occasions now. Both after eating small amounts of carrots & broccoli but the first one I had also eaten lettuce three days in a row. I had blood tests to check my thyroid (because hypothyroidism can affect your body processing beta-carotenes) but they came back clear. I saw my GP in person yesterday and he diagnosed me with Carotenemia. Harmless condition but also a complete mystery to why I’ve suddenly developed it now! I’m 40, female and from the UK.
This is the list of foods he gave me that contain it carotenes: (it’s a lot!)
“Fruits and vegetables rich in carotene include apple, orange, papaya, beans, peach, berries, pineapple, broccoli, brussels sprout, cabbage, pumpkin, carrot, spinach, squash, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, and mango. Other sources include butter, cheese, egg yolk, meat, milk, nutrient supplement, and palm oil”
I’m going to keep a log of what triggers it most so I can avoid it if I don’t want stained hands for like a wedding or something! 😂
Hope this helps a lot of you!
Laura ◡̈
A couple months ago these stained patches first came up, I originally thought it was a tanning moisturiser, that I had applied badly, but did research anyway as I was curious.
Today: they appeared overnight and double the amount than last time. I am positive that diet is the key denominator. I am vegetarian and have been for 5+ years, however in the past week or so I have been eating double the amount of greens, veggies, plant grown foods. Skincare, alcohol, medication, pets, environment, isn’t key in this and from my research & reading on here it’s DIET - specifically having HIGH AMOUNTS OF CAROTENE which typically come from leafy greens and veggies etc. That is if, there are no underlying health conditions, but that seams to be the common answer!
First two photos at 12pm, past photo at 5pm so throughout the day it fades.
Please help me! This happened to me 14 days ago, and it has happened a total of 3 times now. I am freaking. This is the only thread i can find online so i had ro sign up. Please tell me some od you found some answers? It also happened to my bf, only smaller stains. Wtf is this? First it was my hands, but now also my feet are stained.. Help!
My diet hasnt changed. We did eat alot of smoothies before this happened. But not in the last few weeks.
Okay!!!! This may be solved for many of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for those that have experienced the iodine colored splotches since childhood. Not sure about that.
For the rest of us… I may have an answer.
Seems like a lot of men. A few women.
So I am a married man. Woke up with a spot on my foot a month ago. Wasn’t that worried until about 2 weeks ago another spot on my hand. Then 2 days ago my wife on her hand. Both of us freaking out and searching all over.
Okay, okay… I’ll tell you. For us. It is a self tanning oil. Takes about 3 or 4 hours to take affect. So once you touch it. You wouldn’t notice until…. Bam! The next morning! Seems like it is hurried inside of you. No amount of scrubbing gets it off. Just fades over time. That’s some good tanning oil. My legs are white as snow from pants all winter. My thinking about turning the brightness down like my wife does…lol
Now this is a couple weeks old so it doesn’t look as full as it did when I woke up that faithful morning.
This is the most people I have seen in a single group. Most of us are white. Seems like a great deal are with a significant other. And a bunch of us are dudes. So… super pointless long story short! Check with yourself (if female) to what you use and your habits with said potential self care items. For the dudes. This stuff is messy. Doesn’t really stand out on the counter. Wipe it down. Doesn’t turn iodine color unless on skin. I believe it is called tanology. Or something like that. Will update.
Hope this helps with the majority. Also a fairly new phenomenon, so is the oil a fairly new product. I believe it has only been around a few years. Will update.
Okay.
Maybe some of us like myself can stop freaking out. Much love to all
This happened to me a month ago. I assumed it came from yellow gloves while gardening then and figured the stains would go away. They did. This time I touched nothing that could have stained my hands but sure enough the stains returned. This time they weren't there when I left the house but they were when I returned. All I can think from today is that it might be iron related. I have had a lot iron rich foods today. Broccoli beef iron in my cereal etc. But I often eat these things and don't get stains. Perhaps it's an overload of iron from various sources? But then I figure we're not the only people who intake too much iron so if that was it then science would know by now. My Dr also casually dismissed it saying I must have touched something rusty or a dye. As someone else mentioned it appears off the creaces so yes it does look like it's from grabbing something but I agree I feel it's internal.
No baby wipes.
Yes hand sanitizer.
Yes peppers but green not red.
Yes beef.
Yes imitation crab.
Yes Broccoli.
No handling produce.
No tanning oils or woods.
Mainly on my left hand tiny bit on right.
None on my feet.
36 yr old Caucasian female. I have noticed some other users seem to ve 30 something Females.
I have had blood work as recently as last year. No thyroid problems or diabetes.
Have experienced some numbness in my left toe and maybe plantar facitus. Something no one is talking about is weight. I'm 192 lbs. Making this comment cause I'm hoping if any medical study is ever done to be involved.
Like all of you there's no pain or problem I'm just curious why. It was much darker initially but after hours to a day it fades out like this then is eventually gone. This is my 2nd case in 6 months.
I had this too this morning 24/F i dont use tan or eat broccoli. I haven't found any explanation!
Woke up this morning with this on both hands. Had woke up from a dream about nuclear destruction so was like baffled at first. But then noticed my partner has woken up with the same thing. We have both had it before but not to this extent. Hers is worse than mine this morning but she is still asleep so I'm unable to get a picture.
Quite amazing that this thread is still active after 3 years and there still isn't a definite answer to all of this.
Last night we had fajitas but only had the bbq seasoning and mayo as we don't like the salsa??
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