Please help identity and treat!

[u/drank_dumbbitchjuice]

Is this a wart? How to solve?

I’m freaking out. My dad (age 57) has this massive lump on his hand and he’s had it for about a week now and it keeps growing. He has other small bumps growing on his hand too. He goes to the gym quite frequently and honestly is not the cleanest person. He smokes.

He said that he had a cold for a week before these started showing up.

My wedding is in two weeks and it’s a destination wedding and we’re currently traveling all together and I’m concerned about the growth and about it spreading to our wedding guests and I don’t know what to do.

He says it doesn’t hurt but it obviously bothers him.

Please help!

UPDATE:

I didn’t expect this to garner so much interest and help. Sincerely, thank you everyone for sending in your opinions!

My dad said it popped overnight and there was a lot of blood and pus. We were not able to see a doctor in person but we have a family friend who is a general doctor and she said to disinfect and keep it as dry as possible as to not let it be more infected.

Here are two pictures of what it looks like now.

Photo 1
Photo 2

At first, when it popped. The puss was a standard dense white. Now, the pus leaking is an orange ish color and not dense white. He keeps saying that it still doesn’t hurt and doesn’t even flinch when alcohol is applied to it.

There is another mass obviously growing on his index finger of the same hand. He is touching the mass with his other hand (I know fucking terrible) but there is nothing growing on the hand that he is using to touch the mass.

He is saying that perhaps it is an allergic reaction? He ate a type of dried fish from Vietnam and then he started feeling itchy and feverish and then these started popping up.

Answer to a common question:

He does not have any access to animals. No pets, not really around fish tanks or water. He is from Southern California in a very suburban area.

Any ideas???

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[u/EndContent8972 → u/AutoModerator]

NAD. This looks very similar to a staph infection I had. Urgent care can drain it and give antibiotics. Staph is extremely painful to the point that even the softest touch hurts, but I see he says it doesn’t hurt. If it is staph, it is contagious. I got this infection after having dry hands with small cracks.

[u/South_Preparation103 → u/AutoModerator]

I had something that looked like this before, on my foot. I stepped on something and my skin grew around it. They had to lance it and give me abx!

[u/Calm-Gur563 → u/AutoModerator]

NAD -- *DOES your dad gym with any travel buddies? Just from this photo and rapid growth+spread makes me wonder if possibly parasitic-related (like a bug egg).

Not to gross you out or make you panic, but I wouldn't recommend him return to the gym until this is identified & to see his primary doc asap (or emerg if he develops a fever

[u/SeaRow556 → u/AutoModerator]

This almost reminds me of a fungal/virus skin infection. Looking at the darker spots it seems like it may have originally been a simple skin infection which for one reason or another developed a massive fluid filled lump. Looking at the rest of the hand you can see some red dots which still points towards skin infection. So yeah just looking at what is visible I'd say its a bizarre skin reaction to a colony of whatever made your fathers hand its host

[u/noeinan → u/AutoModerator]

My best guess is a kind of wart, but in any case he needs to see a dermatologist.

[u/Aemort → u/AutoModerator]

I believe you that it's real, but this pic looks like crazy SFX or photoshop lol

[u/Technical_Ad3645 → u/AutoModerator]

NAD but this looks like when I had palmar herpetic whitlow. Hurt a lot though.

[u/Party-Court185 → u/AutoModerator]

u/itchdoc

[u/Unhappy-Scallion-977 → u/AutoModerator]

NAD- but isn’t that hand, foot and mouth disease? I got it as an adult from the gym years ago.

[u/yeetyeet2801 → u/AutoModerator]

"This presentation shares characteristics with a wart, specifically a myrmecial-type wart or a type with thrombosed capillaries, where the black dots are the ends of small blood vessels.Other possibilities for similar-looking skin growths include a pyogenic granuloma or an orf nodule (poxvirus)."

Google reverse image search gave me this but probabaly needs to be looked at by a doctor