about my eczema, long

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In a message dated 02/14/2002 9:55:14 PM Central Standard Time,

chrisziggy1 writes:

 

 

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> The beginning of that description sounds kind of fungal in nature .....

> have you tried using a lotion or cream made with oregano hydrosol for

> that? I would ...

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Oooh Chris, I hadn'lt thought of that one I usually use rose or tea tree

hydrosol. Gotta get some oregano hydrosol.

It's really strange and I think a RN friend of mine solved the mystery. All 5

, supposesdly the best in Fl., dermatologists tried to tell lme I washed my

hands too much. They ran tests for fungus, everything! Cost me a fortune for

them to tell me they didn't know what it was. That was 25 years ago, I first

thought it was a lettuce fungus ( because I was a salad girl in a restaurant)

then I thought It was a silver fungus ( from cutting fruit and handeling

coins while making change as a bartender) then I thought It might have been

from the disinfectant usesd when washing bar glasses, then I thought it might

be from using chlorine and some acids barehanded ( cleaning commercial pools

) For almost 30 years I have tried to get some doctor to give me a diagnosis.

About a month ago I mentioned that after being dormant for the last 3 years (

ever since I had been using my own homemade soap) that it had reappeared. I

went through the whole story ( all of what I have related here and more) she

told me that when she was just out of nursing school she was always

reprimanding her fellow workers about protecting themselves while working

with patients, She ALWAYS wears gloves, no matter who it is. She said she

encountered a nurse coming out of a room that had a patient with the most

common thing that you can get in a hospital, A staph infection. Her friend

laughed and told her she didn't think it was necessary to put the gloves on

and that she had washed her hands as soon as she got through with him.

Anyway, to try and make a long story short, LOL, the friend later came up

with a rash on her hands just like the one I have. ( it only gets on my right

hand, never anywhere else) Come to find out it was a staff infection. My

friend said she bet that that is what is wrong with mine. It hides somewhere

in my body untill I get stressed out, and boy have I been stressed out

lately, and then it manifests itself where the skin is weakest on my body.

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

Anyway, in the past, I have controlled it with a steroid ointment called

" Diprolene " that all the doctors have prescribed, to the tune of about $60.

for a 2 ounce tube.

I made a cream using rose hydrosol for the water, and Rose, rosewood, and tea

tree EO's. and as soon as my hand starts to itch I start using the cream

every time I think of it. If I let it go to the little blister stage before

using the cream, it takes about 2-3 days for it to dry up. But if I use the

cream faithfully or as soon as my fingers start to itch, it never manifests

itself. That has really made a believer out of me. Deonia

 

 

 

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Have you considered Echinacea poultices? Staph infections in the skin

are often called scarlet fever in kids, but when they are in adults, no

one seems to know what to do.

 

Echinacea (angustifolia) is a pretty hardy plant and will grow in bad

soil very well (in fact the healing properties of the plant are better

in bad soil). Just take some fresh leaves and stems and crush them up

good with a hammer on top of a cloth or a corn husk. Then lay it over

your hand. Should take about an hour for the poultice to dry up, and

when you take it off, the rash should be gone.

 

Blessings,

Soseneda

 

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