Female skin rash on the breast
If a woman develops a rash on her breast, this can have various causes. A common cause is psoriasis, also called psoriasis. This can lead to small to palm-sized round, red spots that are very flaky.
Other typical locations for the appearance of psoriasis would be knees or elbows or the lower back. Psoriasis can be accompanied by joint inflammation. Another cause of rash on the breast in women may be intertrigo.
This is a red, weeping, inflammatory rash, especially in the breast folds. The rash may be accompanied by burning or itching and typically has a pustule border. Intertrigo occurs due to heavy sweating or friction and is usually triggered in humans by the skin fungus Candida albicans.
In older women, shingles can occur, a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus, which after infection with chickenpox in childhood rests in the nerve roots until the immune system is weakened. Shingles usually affects a dermatome, i.e. the area of skin that is supplied by a nerve and can extend from the chest to the back. It often causes severe pain and itching and is characterized by water-filled blisters on a red background, which may already be partially open. Infections with other viral diseases such as measles or exotic viruses like the dengue virus can also cause a rash on the breast. Likewise, hives, an allergic reaction of the skin with red wheals and severe itching, or an allergic reaction to a drug can cause a rash.
Breast rash in the child
Common causes of rashes on the chest are the typical childhood diseases. These also affect the abdomen and back and are then referred to as trunk, but also arms and legs. Since the rashes of some childhood diseases are very similar, the child should be presented to a pediatrician if he or she has a high fever or pain.
In general, they occur less and less nowadays, since for most childhood diseases a vaccination is mandatory. If the rash on the chest is small spots and accompanied by fever, it may be measles, scarlet fever or rubella. In the case of chickenpox, the rash resembles a “starry sky”, as the blisters appear in different stages at the same time, some may still be intact, others are already open.
In the case of the so-called rose lichen, there is a red spot at the beginning, from which further small flocks spread out, surrounded by a scaly edge. The cause of the disease is not known, but a connection with stress is suspected. It usually heals by itself within half of eight weeks, but can also last up to half a year.
If the child has been accidentally treated with the antibiotics ampicillin or amoxicillin when he or she is ill with the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes the Pfeiffer’s glandular virus, a small spotted rash on the chest and trunk (drug exanthema) and severe itching may occurBabies may suffer from so-called seborrheic eczema, a rash that affects not only the chest but also, and especially, the head and face and is associated with scaling Babies are often younger than three months old. The rash can be accompanied by itching and can also be attacked by bacteria. Usually this rash heals in babies after a short time.
Another rash that can affect the breast is the heat pimples, also called sweat pimples. In addition to the breast, the rash can also affect the face, armpits and shoulders.Small bubbles or pustules are typical. The heat spots appear when the outside temperature is very high and the baby sweats a lot.
However, since the sweat glands in babies are still small, they clog more easily. The pimples are not dangerous, but heat stroke should be avoided, as the baby is less able to “sweat off” the heat (rash from sweating). As with children, a rash in babies can be an infectious disease, such as measles or rubella.
Baby acne, which typically affects the face, can also be responsible for a rash on the chest. In this case, small white spots or pustules form and the surrounding skin is reddened. Baby acne heals without treatment after a few months at the latest.
