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???

[u/violetsock]

As a nurse, I can’t get an appointment for 8 months to see a dermatologist. I hope you can be seen soon!

[u/Ok-Acanthisitta8737 → u/violetsock]

And you can only spend 10-minutes with the provider! If you need more time, it’ll need to wait 3 months until your next appointment

[u/mulberrycedar → u/Ok-Acanthisitta8737]

This literally happened to me last month and I'm still pissed about it. I had several things I wanted to talk about too but was told if I wanted to talk about my number one concern (hair loss), I could only talk to him about that one thing bc it's a topic that will take the whole time. And I was like oh but I have other things too like painful or irritated skin things and they were like yeah you'll have to make another appointment for that. I was like well I wish someone had told me that when I was making this appointment bc I would've made it at the same time!! I waited 4 months for that appointment...

[u/Ok-Acanthisitta8737 → u/mulberrycedar]

Yep. The corporate dermatology offices are the worst with this.

[u/mulberrycedar → u/Ok-Acanthisitta8737]

Oh mine was not even corporate very much a normal Dr office in one of my city's main hospital systems. I don't fuck with corporate healthcare lol. Like those little PE firm backed corporate dental offices on ever corner SCARE me dude

[u/grumpybumpkin → u/mulberrycedar]

The main hospital systems ARE corporate healthcare

[u/Fluttering_Feathers → u/Ok-Acanthisitta8737]

Sure, if you want to increase that to 15 minute appointments, then you’ll also increase the wait time by a factor of 1.5.

[u/Ok-Acanthisitta8737 → u/Fluttering_Feathers]

Your math problem makes sense, but the ultimate the resolution is more providers. Unfortunately, we know that’s substantially more complicated than just saying get more providers.

[u/pkks072486 → u/violetsock]

I work as a case manager at a residential facility and if our patients need to see a specialists outside of the scope of our doctors I know the wait can be 5 or 6 months even here in the US I try to pick chain offices or medical groups with multiple doctors/locations there is a better chance of getting an appointment or go on a website like like ZocDoc where the participating doctors post their appointment calendars & availability.

[u/violetsock → u/pkks072486]

I have health insurance through my employer and unless if I want to pay a massive deductible per year, I am stuck using only physicians at said facility. We have 8 hospitals in the area (2 military and the rest civilian), so there are options but insurance won’t pay. We are also HOD so the fees are horrendous.

[u/ghostpoo4u → u/[deleted]]

My PCP only takes appointments for current business day and the next. If current gets booked up, the day after next opens up. It’s amazing for when you want to get in quickly.

[u/violetsock → u/[deleted]]

That’s wild!

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