05-10-2013, 04:47 AM
There's another side of skin conditions and the environment. Outside of very rare athlete's foot infections I've never had any problems with fungal infections. However when we visited our son in Minneapolis in January a couple of years ago, he of course had the central heating on constantly. Within a day of arriving I began to develop rough, itchy (I suppose eczema) patches on the back of my hand. By the time we left a week later I had patches on my hands and arms. Presumably the very dry conditions associated with the heat. After returning to Puna they disappeared and have never returned. One more reason to never miss central heating.