Ever get an ankle rash during extended WDW vacations?

[Kirk]

About 5 to 7 days into my stays at WDW I always seem to get a red, slightly itchy rash just above my ankles on the inside of my legs. It sounds like "prickly heat" or "heat rash" but seems like a wierd place to get it. Anyone else get this kind of thing? What can you do to prevent it?

 

[floridaminnie]

I've never hotten a rash like tht on my ankle. I usually get a heat rash on my stomach. Just too much time in the heat for me.

 

[TerriP]

I get a heat rash on my calves/ankles EVERY trip to WDW. It usually starts by about day three of the trip and lasts for several days after I return home.

I went to my doctor the first time it happened and she said the heat/sun reflecting off the pavement is why it happens there. I don't know how accurate that is....but it made sense to me!

 

[amid chaos]

Actually, I do recall hearing something about this...maybe someone else has more information.

 

[Saffron]

Ack! This happened to my mom the last time we were at WDW. We went to the first aid station in EPCOT because it had gotten so bad one day, we needed to have someone look at it to see if she should seek medical treatment. The nurse told her it was from the heat radiating up from the sidewalks and it happens often down there, she even had a special name for it, but I can't remember what it is. She told my mom that the only thing that would help is to keep her legs covered during the day! Sooooo -- my mom spent the rest of her vacation during the day wearing light weight, white cotton pants. The rash started to heal as soon as she started wearing pants. In August, our next trip, she'll be wearing light weight white cotton pants during the day, the entire time we're there!

 

[izzy]

I had it one time and my mom gets it every time we go down there. The nurse at the MGM first aid station said that they see a lot of it and that it is related to the heat. She gave me some clear Caladryl lotion to apply and it really helped. Mine didn't itch that much, but every time I looked at it, I wanted to scratch because it looked like it should be itchy!

I've stopped getting the rash when I started wearing socks that didn't go up to my ankle. (You can barely see the top of my socks from my sneakers.) Mom always wears socks that cover her ankle and that's always where her rash starts before it spreads a little ways up her calf.

So, I'd try the shorter socks if you're wearing sneakers and take some clear Caladryl lotion with you if the rash appears.

Hope this helps!

 

[minniecarousel]

This happened to me during one of our trips a few years back. I was told at the time that so many of the walkways have crushed up glass in the pavement - it reflects more than regular sidewalks! I noticed the sparkliy walkways esp in EPCOT.

 

[mrsmom]

My dd and i get this every time we are down at WDW never knew what it was, but i knew that eveytime we came back it would leave in a few days., We thought it was from some sort of a bug bite.

mrsmom

 

[piratesmate]

I got a rash on my shins last time. I thought, at first, I hadn't put enough sun block on. It did not go away as soon as we got home & the doctor said he thought it was either a fungus or something from the heat. He gave me something to put on it, but it took about 2 weeks after we got home before it went away.

 

[caitycaity]

i used to get this every single time i went to wdw, and actually i've gotten it a couple times elsewhere.

once i get it, nothing makes it go away except for time. i've tried benadryl, calamine, aloe, etc. nothing works.

i wear long pants now too and it helps. the last time we went in the summer and i wanted to wear shorts, i wore capris and used the sunscreen with titanium dioxide (which creates a physical barrier between your skin and the sun) and i didn't get the rash.

 

[Micca]

It's very common, and it's about the only thing that's free at WDW I heard the same story about the Disney rash (or Pixie kisses) coming from the heat reflecting off the pavement. For me there is absolutely no pain or itching, but it doesn't look so nice.
Has always gone away with no treament whatsoever.

 

[snuggles]

I get it too, and like Mica, mine doesn't itch at all. It sure looks weird though.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I have had it several times also, I think in my May or Sept times. The first time I had it I did not even know it till taking my shoes and socks off at night in the room. I looked and said, 'what the heck!!!!! ' Only on my shins and calves. It was not itchy for me, I could not feel anything on the surface (bumps or anything), no heat, no soreness, just VERY red. I also was told it was the 'Disney rash', from sun reflection. It just went away on its own slowly over about a week. When I am there now, I put a cream on containing zinc acetate, followed by sunscreen. Last few trips have been okay.

 

[Kirk]

I got the rash in Paris too so it can't be just a Disney thing. A few things I think coorelate with rash onset:

1) A lot of walking
2) Humid
3) Heat (80 +)

Once I start getting it things only get worse! Ointments, Aloe, lotions, sunblock nothing seems to help! I wear shorts with tennis peds typically. The rash starts just above and to the rear of my inside ankle and spreads up and forward. It doesn't itch at first but does some once it has had a chance to spread.

 

[Patabel]

We have two favorite times of year to go to WDW....May (when its hot and humid) and early December (when its not). I never get the rash in December...but I always get the rash in May. Doesn't itch, just looks ghastly!

 

[Mickey Nut 50]

Oh boy! do I ever get it. It started in '94. Each time I've been there since it gets progressively worse. This last time, two weeks ago, was the ultimate - all the way up to my knees! In '99 my travel buddy had some cream along prescribed by her doctor which saved the day - it's triamcinolon ace cream, 1%. It's a steriod cream. I had a fresh tube with me and used it the first two days of our split WDW trip (WDW for two days, the rest of FL and the Keys for 5 days, then back to WDW for 3 days). I used the cream, and the rash was gone quickly until I went back to WDW. I put the cream on as a preventative before going out. No redness at all, but my legs felt hot, until I stepped into the air conditioning at WL. I ended up with a fever, chills, headach - basically a heat stroke. Managed to get over it, but had really red legs for the rest of the trip. I just creamed my legs more often. My legs are still discolored where the rash was - but it will go away. I wore long pants at Christmas - and still got the rash! I'm just really sensitized to it now - and probably won't be going back in the summer any more