Not sure what this could be however I do have some idea's but wanted to see what you guys thought. Here are some details of what I have been doing.
About 2 weeks ago we went on a river float trip and I got really wet, I was wearing jean shorts and sat a lot on my rear in wet shorts.
Shortly after I noticed a burning / slightly itching feeling in my butt area, so I proceeded to look in the mirror and noticed I was really red where my butt cheeks are together. Everything else is fine.
We were at the beach the following week and now it is redder and has irritated my area between my butt and scrotum.
Does this sound like a wet rash kind of like diaper rash? Does it sound like it could be yeast?
What is the best cream to try, I have been using desitin for about 2 days and it did not help much so I tried some Clotramisol and Betamethosin prescription strentgh for about a day and a half and it has reduced the redness but it burns.
Does this sound like it could be a dermatitis? I have had unprotected sex in the middle of this too? I do not think that could be related......
Please help.
Thanks

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People get bumps on bottom or buttocks that present as lesions of varying characteristics. This is because the bumps could be whiteheads, blackheads, boils, blisters of simply, rashes. Find out the meaning of these bumps, pictures, causes and how to get rid of them

Meaning-Are they normal?

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So, what does it mean when you have bumps on your buttocks? Is it normal?

To start with, getting bumps on your buttocks is not normal and refers to you having a condition that needs dire medical attention.

Secondly, while it is abnormal to have bumps on your buttocks, the etiology of the bumps does not point out to a particular cause.

There are many causes of bumps on buttocks that may need to be explored by your physician and dermatologist so as to develop the right diagnosis.

In addition to this, the morphology and the behavior of your bumps will come in handy in making an informed conclusion. More to the causes of bumps on buttocks will be explored in the sections that follow.

In a nutshell if this could be the only section your will read, bumps on buttocks could mean that you are wearing tight clothing, you are excessively sweating on the butt perhaps as you walk, diseases such as shingles, boils, heat rash (miliaria), hives rash, fungal infections among others that shall be discussed in detail.

Pictures-What do they look like?

So how do bumps on your buttocks look like? As mentioned before, the bumps will bear a particular characteristic depending on the cause.

Some of the morphological characteristics that you will be able to observe in some bumps is a raised lesion that may be white, black or red and may be a cavity that has some blood, water or a yellow discharge.

Depending on the positioning along the layers of the skin, the bumps may be superficially located underneath the skin while others appear to be right above the dermis. Again, with regard to touching or palpating, the bump may be tender to touch or may be aching.

Here are some pictures that will help you identify bumps on your buttocks and be able to relate them to a particular cause.

Possible Causes-why do I get them?

Now that you are aware of the possible multi-etiology of bumps on buttocks, here are some of the causes that could explain their pathophysiology. To put it simply, the most prevalent causes will involve excessive sweating, excessive production of sebum and its entrapment underneath the skin, infections and ingrown hairs.

Ingrown hairs

Your hair typically grows out through the skin upwards but when this hair follicle somehow finds its way into the skin and re-enters, then it is known as an ingrown hair. Some of the reasons you may get ingrown hairs include:

Wearing tight clothing

Tight clothing exerts a mechanical pressure on the hair along your inter-gluteal cleft. You therefore face a risk of getting ingrown hairs as a result of a backward curling of the hair follicle that eventually enters the dermis of the skin.

Not properly scrubbing the buttocks

It may seem rather weird talking about this. However, the truth of the matter is that if you do not scrub the inter-gluteal cleft well, you risk having an accumulation of dead skin and therefore a clog-up of the pores.

When the pores are clogged, the hair follicles hardly make it to the outside and end up curling underneath the skin.

You are obese

Being obese means that you have a crease or a deep-seated cleft that in addition to these abnormalities, are tighter. Therefore, the risk of getting ingrown hairs is higher.

Your body hair is thick

The more hair you have, the higher the chance that you are predisposed to ingrown hairs. This means that the surface area on which ingrown hairs can occur is increased.

Irritation and reflex scratching

Fungal infections and sweat may cause irritation. Fungal infections lead to drying of the skin and increased flakiness. It is normally less easy for hair to penetrate moisturized skin and thus, when dry, is able to beat the odds. Scratching aggressively may force a hair follicle into the skin and cause bumps on the buttocks.

Poor shaving and waxing

Poor shaving techniques include not moisturizing your skin before shaving, using a wrong razor, shaving against grain the direction along which the hair grows, shaving too close to the skin and not using an after-shave.

When it comes to shaving, bumps arising are referred to as razor bumps on the buttocks. Waxing is a technique used by those who want to bypass the hassle of having to shave. When done improperly and frequently, may lead to ingrown hairs.

Folliculitis

An infection of the follicles in the skin that is mostly caused by normal flora of the skin including the Staphylococcus aureus. Since it is infected, it appears as a bump with a pus-filled.

Due to this characteristic, it is medically known as a pustule. MedicineNet informs that the pus-filled sac appears as a dot or ball of pus at the center top of the bump.

Therefore, on your buttocks, folliculitis will appear as whiteheads, which are tender to touch and fluid filled.

The main cause of folliculitis is clogged pores and a therefore accumulation of sweat and sebum. These set of conditions topped up with some warmth is conducive for the incubation and harbor of bacteria among other pathogens. Folliculitis could lead to a complication, commonly known as a boil.

It is important to realize that there are strains of bacteria that are resistant to the common antibiotics you have such as Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus (MRSA), it is therefore important to have your bump checked out and scraped for culture.

Cycling and seating too long

Bumps on the buttocks can also result from seating on the saddle for too long. When too much pressure is exerted on the skin of the butt cheeks, the blood circulation is reduced that may lead to accumulation of dirt among other toxins in the skin.

Circulation is important for the proper excretion of toxins from the body through the sweat glands and if this is not entirely possible, then infections could arise and cause bumps on the buttocks.

Same applies to seating for too long. Irritation can also arise and scratching, as a reflex, leads to eruption of pimples.

Sweating after exercise

You sweat after exercising or working out. This may happen in your butt crack and butt cheeks. The dampness and excessive oil produced may lead to bump pimples.

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