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on the topic of skin bends, jess describes his case as "slobitis" which is a "type of skin bends". my question is, what other types of skin bends are there and the accompanying signs & symptoms? a short time ago, i had to treat a recreational diver who got skin bends. he and his buddies had been diving for 6 straight days often pulling 100'/30m + dives in the morning followed by shallower pm dives. on the 6th day of diving, he ran into the restaurant after a morning dive and said that he thought he had skin bends. a rash had developed on his back and chest and he felt popping sensations and mild pain in the areas of the rash. he said that he got really concerned when his skin popped and some blood (i did not directly observe this, btw) came out prompting him to run in and seek treatment. after about an hour on 02, he said he felt fine, got up and walked away refusing further treatment. "it was probably just a wet-suit rash," he said. i guess this illustrates how insidious skin bends can be because many divers simply regard it as benign. his rash was reddish and very fine in texture - not like the stuff you get when you're whacked by fire coral. it covered an area about 12"/30cm x 10"/25cm on his chest and back. thanks in advance for your responses. dive safe! m.g. ebro At 06:49 AM 6/24/99 -0500, Jess Armantrout wrote: >I again want to express my sincere thanks for the response to my recent >posts. All of the gear has been spoken for at this time. There will >probably be some more odds and ends as i continue to clean out the garage. > >Folks, let me again assure you, I am not getting out of diving. I have only >sold about 1/3 of my gear (scary, huh?) and will be diving just as much as >ever, just not so deep. I still have 3 sets of doubles, 2 scooters, 2 DUI >drysuits and about a dozen stage bottles left (no, none of it is for sell so >back off ;-) > >As some of you guessed, I got a minor DCS hit that shook me up. It was what >we call slobitis and is a type of skin bends. It was on a (relatively) >conservative dive that went well except it was deeper than expected (351'). >The deco was still "correct", meaning I would do the same again. The >screwup on my part was being pretty dehydrated from the exertion of getting >to the site and setting up the dive. > >I am still convinced that the techniques and procedures that are continuing >to be evolved by the wkpp are the best roadmap we have available and that is >what I will continue to use. > >But that is only a contributing factor for my decision to back off. I have >seen some awesome cave in the past three years, but have paid a huge price >financially, physically mentally and in time. (My yard is a wreck!) Last >year I spent over 10 grand on gear, 3 to 5 grand on dive related travel and >took 4 weeks off without pay to do it. In short, for a poor working man >with a wife who loves me, my priorities got a little out of whack. > >Anyway, I will still be around, and I will still be hammering the strokes, >but I will try to do it in a kinder, gentler manner. > >Good luck to you all and let's go diving. >Jess > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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