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Contact dermatitis from grocery store?

Yesterday I encountered a man in the checkout lane at the grocery store with quite a rash on his elbows; it looked to be poison ivy, but without blisters. He reached for something and put it down, and I realized I needed it and picked it up. A minute or two later the section near my thumb, on the hand I'd grabbed the product, started to swell and itch considerably. But it looked like a strange, large bug bite more than anything. Then a few hours later a rash appeared on the top of my hand - it was non-textured and made of many small pink/red ovals. I covered it after putting on some desonide creme from a previous contact dermatitis and went to bed. In the morning the 'bug bite' was still active, but the rash was completely gone.

Any ideas?

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