Help figure out my dad’s skin issue
Hi! Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of my dad’s skin and he isn’t home at the moment, but it’s always been my plan to try and help him.
He’s 53 years old and he says he was born with this condition. His skin has light pink splotches all over it and the skin there feels dry/scaly. The rashes also spread. He says that when it’s really cold, they burn. He’s lived his whole life with this and they’ve never been able to help him out. Apparently when he was younger, they tried “treatments” that only hurt him more.
He also says that when I was born, I had that same exact thing but that doctors put some kind of ointment on me and it went away.
Could this be eczema? I’ve googled the symptoms and they don’t completely match up with his. He says his rashes are only rarely itchy. Also it says that it’s rare to be born with it, but I don’t know. I’m not sure if it’s a skin condition that runs in his family. He hasn’t said (or at least I don’t remember). All I know about skin conditions in his family is that one of his cousins has vitiligo, but I doubt that’s what this is because symptoms don’t completely align either.
Does anyone have any thoughts?