touching meat makes me itchy!!

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?

It does sound odd :nahnah:

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? :think:

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...:p