Associated symptoms

Skin rashes on the back are not uncommon. In the context of many illnesses, which can be of very different nature, the back can be affected by a rash. Typical symptoms of a rash are redness or scaling of the skin.

Depending on the cause, it can look quite different. An extremely prominent accompanying symptom of such skin phenomena is itching of the skin. Itching does not occur with every skin rash.

However, it is typical for some clinical pictures. Itching is typically found in parasitic infections or louse diseases. These include, for example, scabies, which is caused by scratch mites.

Other skin rashes such as neurodermatitis, rubella, chickenpox and seborrhoeic dermatitis also show more or less severe itching. Another accompanying symptom that can occur in the context of a rash is fever. Fever is above all characteristic of infectious disease.

It is particularly common in the typical childhood diseases. These include chickenpox, rubella, rubella, measles and scarlet fever. Acute Lyme disease can also cause a kind of flu symptoms, but without coughing and rhinitis.

The accompanying symptoms for skin rashes are very varied, as the causes also represent a very broad field. Another prominent accompanying symptom is headache and aching limbs, which occur in the context of infectious diseases. Here, too, the children’s diseases dominate.

A clinical picture, which impresses with very own accompanying symptoms, is the Herpes Zoster. This is also known as shingles. In addition to the typical skin rashes, it can lead to tiredness, exhaustion and slight fever.

In addition to the skin rash, there is also severe pain and burning sensations in the affected area of skin, which can be very distressing for the patient. This pain and discomfort is caused by nerve irritation, which triggers the varicella zoster virus. Even after the rash has subsided, the aforementioned pain and burning may persist.

Itchy skin rashes can be very distressing for those affected. There are some diseases that cause itchy rashes. Often the back is also affected.

A possible cause of such an itchy rash is rubella. Typical is a ringed exanthema. Chickenpox is another example of an itchy rash of the back.

Chickenpox is easily recognized by the “colorful” appearance of the rash: You can see nodules, red spots, blisters and scaling at the same time. This is also called “starry sky”. Another cause of an itchy skin rash on the back is allergic contact dermatitis, which is an allergic reaction of the skin to a certain substance.

Neurodermatitis is also characterized by an agonizing itching. The back can be affected, but this is rarely the case. Other itchy skin diseases are the louse diseases and the scabies (scabies).

Here too, however, the back is less frequently affected. Severe itching causes the so-called hives (urticaria). This is a hypersensitive reaction of the skin to food, medication, heat, cold, pressure, water, immunological phenomena or stress.

Hives and redness appear, which itches severely.Skin rash caused by medication may occur as a side effect or sign of an allergy to the medication and is often accompanied by itching. If a newly developed rash can be linked to the use of medication, do not hesitate to consult your family doctor. Many back rashes do not show itching. These include measles, rubella, scarlet fever or acne vulgaris. Also the rubella presents itself without itching in half of those affected.