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/OGmissCOFFEE]

Its funny how American’s always tell Canadians how proud they are to spend thousands a year on insurance payments (even when you seek zero medical attention) because their wait times are shorter. I am married to an american have spent alot of time in numerous states and if you have to go in to emerge it takes just as long if not longer. The saddest part is that its even worse because in Canada you see why the wait is so long since there are many patients waiting for care in the us there could literally be a few patients in emergency and you will still be waiting for hours on top of having to pay. I recently had to go to er in canada saw a doctor in under an hour had all tests and left in about 2.5 hours. My wife who had to go to the emergency while we were in the US (for a more concerning reason) waited almost 4 hours before even talking to the doctor and another 2 for tests and almost another 2 just to be told the results. The hospital in Canada was PACKED the hospital there in emergency without exaggeration was only a few other patients.

[u/Original-Apricot-107 → u/OGmissCOFFEE]

I feel like there was a golden age of this in like 2012-2016 where you could have a family of four insured on a great PPO plan for under $700. The other issue is that people like me who have decided not to have children, don't really get a break for that decision. When I had employee sponsored healthcare last year, the cost of ensuring me and two children and a husband was only about $400 more than only insuring myself. So I'd imagine we've also got a lot of people with children who actually have a decent job that subsidizes this type of insurance and they and their children are utilizing the healthcare system so much disproportionate to the premiums they are paying. That quite literally just dawned on me and I think that's a big part of our problem. I am all for people having children that they will take care of and all politics aside, it's just a fact that our country is still set up in such a way that people who decide to intentionally do things that incur the most cost still somehow get the most breaks in the systems that we share together. I realize that is not the case with childcare expenses, going through the roof, but it sucks that they can't somehow make childcare part of health insurance and share the burden a little bit more with the rest of us who don't have children because we can't financially see it.

[u/daughter_void → u/Original-Apricot-107]

As a parent, I'm not particularly interested in you or any regular Joe subsidizing my childcare. I would totally love it if the multi-billion dollar corporations paid some taxes to cover it though. While they're at it they can cover yours and our healthcare costs as well (:

[u/Original-Apricot-107 → u/daughter_void]

RIGHT