the rash looks like chicken skin and it itches occasionally. I first noticed it about 3 weeks ago and thought it would go away. is it something that i should worry about? could it be related to ...

They’re caused by allergies or allergy-like skin reactions to irritants ... like measles and varicella zoster virus (chicken pox), that cause rash spread in infected air droplets.

Unlike allergic rashes ... For instance, viral skin rashes (and the underlying virus) from rubella, roseola, molluscum contagiosum, chicken pox, fifth disease, measles, and hand-foot-and-mouth ...

Common examples include poison ivy and nickel allergies, Lipner says. These rashes "tend to be very ... that are sometimes ...

According to Rachna Shah, the allergist and immunologist who heads Loyola Medicine's pollen count in Chicago, skin rashes are also a sign of seasonal allergies, but they could easily be mistaken ...