I've had the exact same symtoms. Red swollen eyelids, rashy neck, itchy ear lobes, redish nose and random outbreaks of all these symptoms I feel like it could be flavored dairy creamers (Coffee mate), feathers or both. In any event, I've been to the allergist and the dermatologist. I've had patch testing and cut grass was the only serious allergic reaction he could find. He gave me Zyrtec (which did not help). The dermatologist prescribed Locoid Lipocream which seems to help. However, I was taking a vitamin Flax, fish and Borage which also seems to help.  I almost feel like it's a deficiency of some sort now. I though at one point it was a horomone issue as I remember that my mother used to complain about the same thing as she went though menopause (maybe like a symptom). We both had hysterectomy in our thirties. We both experienced this in our fourties.

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2/11/11 3:40pm

Well, If you have a swollen eye, its either a bug bite. Or you have been rubbing your eyes with dirty hands. So soak a cold towel in cold water and apply it to the swollen eye.

Itchy Face

1/15/12 11:22am

Did you every find an answer to your question? I am having the exact same symptoms. What I found interesting about yours is the things youo were exposed to! I use the coffe mate flavored cream, but always have. I have been using feathers for making hats for a play my daughter is in. My eyes are almost swollen shut and I have a rash on my face, necjk and ears! If you had an answer, let me know. I am heading to the doctor tomorrow.

Me too and I'm looking for an answer... trying to avoind going to the doc.

I have the same symptoms... at first my eyes were just itchy, then i developped a neck rash and my ears started itching too. Did you ever find out what you had? I wish this would go away =( if anyone has any info at all let me know

I have red itchy swollen eyelidsthat are now oozing.  Little red Bumps on my nose and a rash on my neck.  What should I do?

I have had variations of this for the past few months and went to the Dr. who told me it is most likely allergies and to take Zyrtec for about 30 days....

Now- I have the rash on my neck again and it is dry and itchy... zyrtec appears to NOT be helping..... not sure I should go to the dermatologist now or what???

exact same thing happened to me. It finally stopped after I stopped taking all of my pills... a multivitamin, iron, and fish oil. Perhaps you guys should also try to stop taking any pills that aren't necessary. Let me know if that works, and best of luck to anyone having these problems

I have very similar symptoms and have no idea what it is. The doc said it's an allergic reaction but how often do allergic reactions cause weeping rashes? It started with just my eye feeling a bit swollen and itchy, i thought i'd been bit by a bug. The next morning I work to find my eye even more swollen, a red rash that itches on the back of my neck and side of my cheek, and a weeping itchy rash behind my ear. All of these are on the right side of my face / head. The doctor gave me corticosteroid and told me to use cortizone also but it seems worse this morning! If anyone has any idea as to what this is please post it. My right eye is almost swollen shut now. :(

mteller

1/16/10 1:30pm

I have the same problem, my eyebrows itch on the left side and i woke up with swollen eye lid, the bottom of my scule itch and my ears swell up and it itch. Now i have rash on my shoulders. It's spreading out, it feels swollen and red, and it itches. but there is no blisters. it's just Red. This is the second time it happen. Both times it happen in the winter...come to think maybe it's a cold weather thing and stress maybe I have no clue.

comanche8f

5/23/10 8:47am

I know its a little post your posting date now, but I figured I would share some info with you guys. I had all the exact same symptoms. I was told at some point in time I came in contact with poison sumac. They said it wouldn't go away on its own and gave me a steroid shot and a dose pack. Within a week, for the first time in 2 months, all my symptoms were completely gone.

Smotro

5/23/10 8:52am

Maybe that's what it was because steroids are what fixed it for me to. Actually the first set of steroids weren't strong enough so they had to give me the max dose. It was something like 10mg a day tapering down over the course of 2 weeks i think.

I developed a similar rash this past summer. It got to the point where one of my eyes were so swollen it looked like I had been punched. Since it was only around my eyes, neck and ears, the docs assumed it was some type of allergic reaction, put me on prednisone 7 days. At the end of the 7 days, it started coming back, but worse. It was not something you could really go out in public with, much less work. I went back to the doc and told them, as always, I have not used any new products and since I have had eczema growing up I was used to not using any new or scented products. The only thing new I was taking was the antidepressent called amitriptyline (brand name: Elavil), prescribed for migraine prophylaxis. The doctor said she did not think the reaction was from the amitriptyline and put me on prednisone again 7 days. 7 days of perfect skin until the last day it started coming back again.

I called my neurologist who prescribes the amitriptyline and told him about the rash. He said he would give me something else and within a week of stopping the med the rash dissapeared. Come to find out based on my own reading, that particular drug can cause some type of photosensitivity which results in a rash in areas exposed to the sun. It makes sense since it was nowhere else on my body and I had seriously avoided other allergens, but I can't know for sure. This was in August 09 and now its Feb 10 and guess what? Rash is back! No new meds, lotions.... It's getting a bit ridiculous. I thought I would comment in case anyone else has ever taken amitryptyline and had this problem.....Maybe some insight about the past can help the future.

livewell

11/29/11 3:04pm

I developed this over the last 5 weeks. Itchy swollen eyes which eventually get scaley and the neck rash, only around the back of my neck. very srange since nowhere else itches. Been through the allergy shot, the prednisone, emergency room, shot again, dose pack, benadryl, alegra... the thing is, while I am on any treatment the symproms go away and within days after the treatment the symptoms would come back. These would occur mostly overnight after I eat. What am I allergic to? I cannot tell. Tried elimination but noticed that i was still swelling up even though I was not eating some things. Stil in the process of elimination. THis week it is wheat, (bread, cakes, flour etc) We will see. I am tired of swelling up. At one point I was even afraid to eat. One week I ate cereal and bread, but by Wednesday afternoon I was at the emergency room itching and swollen. Had not though of wheat at that time. Seemed so simple. Have been eating, and love bread all of my life. Maybe the allergy test will help. A lot of people seem to get that grass result. Any way it is most lokely an allergic reaction, hopefully elimination will help me find out what or whatever bug it is it will pass through my system sooner than later. In the meantime I am taking allegra, it is non-drowsy and eating with caution. Also drinking a lot of water. I am planning to try detox also.

I've been reading all these comments and I see myself in each and every one. I have swollen, red itchy eye lids on both eyes actually but one is worse then the other. I now have a rash which is very itchy on one side of my neck and continuing around to the back of my neck. I have had the eye issue for months my neck just for the last month.  I have been using sea buckthorn oil and cream on all the itchy areas. It does give relief. I am almost positive I'm alergic to something but what? I avoid going to the doctor at all costs. I'm more into a natural remedies if I can. Thus the sea buckthorn products. One thing that I going to avoid is strawberries. Over the course of a few months I have eaten many. I think this may be a trigger.

Dorothy

12/19/10 9:17pm

I would like to add a footnote to my posting. It has been a week now of not eating strawberries, the redness is going from my eyelids. But what has  happened now is my eyelids have become very dry, the skin is very flaky. I'm taking this as a good sign. I'm also using a natural cream called Boiron (with Ledum Palustre, Apis Mellifica Calendula) in it. This has stopped the itching on my neck. All in all I think I'm seeing a vast improvement in my condition.

hi everyone i dont directly know how you all feel but i do understand your frustration for answers.

i have a little girl who will be 4 in jan and since she was 1 she has suffered with servear excema, asthma, food and enviromental allergies. she has always suffered with the normal food allergie signs and flear ups of the excema when she has come into contact with one of her allergens. We started to go to a top london hospital with the best pediatric team in the uk a few months back. we start down the normal root of taking out milk and soya together and each one indervidually but neither made a difference.

over the last month she has started to intermittedly react in the same ways you have discribed. red itch eyes (almost red and ringed round her eyes) rash on her neck (very small condenced spots) ears becoming itchy but she also comes out in hives all over her the rest of her body.

unfortuanatly  we have yet to see her consultants since these break outs have started happening. we are due to go next month in january. but knowing my daughter she will proberly be clear that day so i have tonight taken photos of her to show them if needed.

this perticualar out break tonight was 2 days after finishing a short cause of oral steriods (have had them since 1 never had a problem with them) and while being on antibiotic and a rountine dose of antihistamines and a normal routine of steriod creams. so in theroy she should not have come up in the unexplained way.

i will post again once i have been and let you know what is said

i know this post is old and im about 2 years late but for people like me that look things up online i hope to still be able to help them 

I was taking Tamoxifen during 4 years, after having a couble mastectomy. About a year into the Tamoxifen treatment I got the weardest rash, on my upper chest, all around the neck and all over my face, my ears - and in the bend of the right arm. (Nowhere else on the body) Red, itchy and swelling. It kind of changed and moved around, but still only on the upper chest, around the neck, the face, the ears and the bend of the right arm. After some days my face was swollen and I literally looked like a ninety year old lady (even though I was 39) My eyes were hardly visible at all. And my voice got hoarse. The doctors were trying to find out the reason - without success. The only thing that helped was Prednisone and a couple of prescription creams (Desonide and another I can't remember the name of). The symptoms went away but came back frequently. Finally, after more than a year of struggling, I googled the symptoms and Tamoxifen and found a website were women were posting Q&A's. Many other women had experienced the same thing. I talked to my oncologist and I got off the Tamoxifen for two weeks. Towards the end of the second week my son (5 years old at the time) said: "Mom, you don't look like a dragon any more!!!". I got on Tamoxifen again, and the symptoms returned. Got off, and they disappeared. After trying "on/off 4 times, with exactly the same result we were certain that Tamoxifen caused the problems. I continued the Tamoxifen treatment until 3 years ago and didn't have any problems at all with rash, swelling, itching, etc... UNTIL THIS SUMMER, when I had a small flare up for a week, but it went away on it's own. In November  I had a new huge flare up, just like it was when I was taking Tamoxifen. Got Prednisone and it went away. In December it came back, even worse. My face was so swollen that my friends wouldn't recognize me. Prednisone helped again. Yesterday it came back and I just started a new round of Prednisone. I have some allergies but none of them would explain this reaction. MY OWN CONCLUSION at this point is: Tamoxifen trigged this reaction the first time. Last year I got into perimenopaus. Tamoxifen and perimenopaus/menopaus are both messing with your HORMONES. So now I'm:

1. Going to let my allergist, oncologist, endocrinologist and gynecologist communicate and coordinate hormonial tests and suggest treatments

2. Focus on alternative treatments for getting a better balance of my hormones (in addition to yoga, excercise and meditation)