Bitten by a kava monster last night

[PapaMoi]

Oh no!........
I seem to have been bitten by the dreaded dermothapy monster!

My skin is starting to slowly dry out and look like 'old man hands'.
Supposedly this was a sort of status symbol and thought to be attractive in the old Oceanic kava cultures.

Anyone ever shaken hands with sandpaper?



I say all this as I reach for another shell, btw.

 

[The Kap'n]

Definitely been there. O'keefe's working hands really works magic on hands during dermo.

 

[Sam Handwich]

I've not had this happen to me from kava (yet) but I'd did recently (and stupidly) work with wet concrete without gloves and my hand ended up looking exactly like this the next day...odd that kava would do the same thing.

 

[Zaphod]

That is exactly how my hands look from the dreaded dermo! Comes and goes, but when it gets real bad a ton of coco butter lotion keeps it manageable.

 

[Zaphod]

I've not had this happen to me from kava (yet) but I'd did recently (and stupidly) work with wet concrete without gloves and my hand ended up looking exactly like this the next day...odd that kava would do the same thing.

I made the same mistake in college while working on project involving cement. The lye in the cement can be enough to cause caustic burns. Luckily my hands just looked like I got a bad sunburn with sloughing off skin for about a week.

 

[Go Krunk Yourself]

OHHHHH is that how DErmo looks? I'm dying laughing cause I thought I avoided it for ever but my hands are always like that. Maybe its Kava or its just my dry terrible skin.. hmm..

 

[HeadHodge]

I've not had this happen to me from kava (yet) but I'd did recently (and stupidly) work with wet concrete without gloves and my hand ended up looking exactly like this the next day...odd that kava would do the same thing.

Ive heard that cement can be found in kava.

 

[Krunkie McKrunkface]

View attachment 7695 Oh no!........
I seem to have been bitten by the dreaded dermothapy monster!

My skin is starting to slowly dry out and look like 'old man hands'.
Supposedly this was a sort of status symbol and thought to be attractive in the old Oceanic kava cultures.

Anyone ever shaken hands with sandpaper?



I say all this as I reach for another shell, btw.

had that on the soles of my feet before. You could sit there and carve out chunks of my heel with a well-honed Swiss Army knife but my wife says that's annoying while she's trying to watch netflix so I should go outside.

 

[Groggy]

Definitely been there. O'keefe's working hands really works magic on hands during dermo.

This stuff is also great around the neck, were a shirt collar might rub, I've had dermo from head to toe, it's not fun.

 

[Krunkie McKrunkface]

still say the cure for dermo is ice and a bombilla, but I have no illusions about people ever, you know, trying it.

 

[kastom_lif]

Anyone ever shaken hands with sandpaper.

Sek han lo mi se se yu sek han lo sanpepa we.

 

[Intrepidus_dux]

Sek han lo mi se se yu sek han lo sanpepa we.

I never get tired of that song!

@Krunkie McKrunkface, I know, we’re all slackers on getting the special straw even though it’s reasonably priced online. I do use ice though!