Seriously, I seen some posts on muskies first on this. I realized I am, everytime I've handled them this year my hands break out and itch. Its escepially bad if I get some knuckle rash, lately when I get home I'll put some neosporin on the cuts and the next day they still itch and get infected. Anyone else have this problem? I guess I will have to invest in some of those musky armor gloves.
"Corey K" said:
Seriously, I seen some posts on muskies first on this. I realized I am, everytime I've handled them this year my hands break out and itch. Its escepially bad if I get some knuckle rash, lately when I get home I'll put some neosporin on the cuts and the next day they still itch and get infected. Anyone else have this problem? I guess I will have to invest in some of those musky armor gloves.
Only where you get cut from gills or does slime seem to make you itch? I'm guessing it's just the tiny little pieces from the gill rakers/gill arch that get stuck in you and not an allergic reaction to the fish. I'm no allergist but I think if you were going to have a reaction to the fish it would happen from slime and with most fish.
Get some musky armor gloves or just stop fishing muskies. 😯
Yeah, didn't mean to highjack the thread. Gloves are a good idea for anyone when handling fish. For the fish as well as the fisherman. Rub some of the slime somewhere else on your body, you decide where, and see if you react. If so, then you may have a simple fish allergy, and therefore you should be careful eating fish, shellfish, whatever. If not, then see the above post. This one time, in Albany NY, I got hives from eating 2 dozen raw clams for lunch, 3 days in row………man, were those good.
It is only muskies that I seem to get this from, I handle alot of other fish and never had this issue. I get alot of little nicks on my hands from handling eyes through the ice and never had a problem expcept for some sore pinchers. Doesn't matter where the skis have come from either. I'm not really that worried about it, actually I'm usually in a better mood when my hands itch.
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