touching meat makes me itchy!!

[BabyQ]

Ok I know it may sound really very odd, and I've been debating where to put this post so I hope I'm in the right area.

DS is now 4 1/2 months old and since I was about 5 months pregnant every time I handle meat my hands get very itchy! Chicken or steak or mince..it doesn't matter, within a minute or two I have to stop what I'm doing and wash my hands.

Does anyone have any insight into what's going on with my skin?? I try to keep moisturizer on most of the time so I don't think it has much to do with that but I could be wrong.

Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

[Nelle]

It does sound odd

I don't know! I know my hands get a bit weird after cutting pumpkin cos it does something weird to my hands, so I suppose meat could do a similar thing...I would have thought it'd be a moisture thing if anything...

Okay, so a quick google search tells me that meat juice is a bad idea for dry skin - and I'm thinking - if you're washing your hands are you using soap? Like, stripping your hands of their natural protective oils and then going back to the meat?

Maybe you could just use some latex gloves when chopping meat? Or at least moisturise beforehand, maybe with an oil based moisturiser? Although...do you really want that on your meat...