Chemical sensitivities, reactive airways, skin issues, etc

[Major Tom]

You must live near farming where they burn the fields to prevent mold spores in the next crop.

I think they do it to enrich the soil or so they say, but usually its not even burning in the field, just giant piles along the edges of the field and they just leave the ash there. One pile will smoulder and choke out the air for about 4 days usually.
Hopefully it is doing something useful like preventing mold, I never thought of that. But here they are spraying all kinds of "cides" on the crops constantly, and I think its another reason why the chaff smoke is so noxious.

 

[I love roses]

I think they do it to enrich the soil or so they say, but usually its not even burning in the field, just giant piles along the edges of the field and they just leave the ash there. One pile will smoulder and choke out the air for about 4 days usually.
Hopefully it is doing something useful like preventing mold, I never thought of that. But here they are spraying all kinds of "cides" on the crops constantly, and I think its another reason why the chaff smoke is so noxious.

Here they leave all stubble in the fields and burn the entire fields. That kills bugs, everything. It makes the soil more acid so fungus spores won’t set up in the fields. It is best to burn the crop stubble because what diseases they attract will set up. I don’t think they burn green manure crops like alfalfa, but I don’t remember The fields have to be clean as a whistle. Then they still spray Round Up so many weeks before they replant. But not time we had no rain after harvest and they burned for over a month a 50 mile radius or more day and night. They did a few fields at a time and i literally had to leave the state that year. I wasn’t even safe in my own house. Here, they remove cotton seed and burn that it a pile. Boy does that stink and kill me. They should be forced to use filtered incinerators. Sometimes it looks like fog outside and it caused a five car pile up cause no one could see. But that is rare that it is that bad.

 

[I love roses]

I think they do it to enrich the soil or so they say, but usually its not even burning in the field, just giant piles along the edges of the field and they just leave the ash there. One pile will smoulder and choke out the air for about 4 days usually.
Hopefully it is doing something useful like preventing mold, I never thought of that. But here they are spraying all kinds of "cides" on the crops constantly, and I think its another reason why the chaff smoke is so noxious.

The mold is a blight that affects the plant crop planted there next year so they can use less fungicide. If they leave ashes that makes the soil acidic and so does sulphur, Some plants like acid. Some prefer lime for alkaline. One time my tomatoes would only grow in a burn like. Then others died of blight which is plant fungus. Sorry I tortured everyone all day blabbing. but it broke my depression and it ended my over eating spell. Signing off.

 

[Mary Lyn]

@I love roses I am extremely sensitive to chemicals since being poisoned with pesticide. and my skin is extremely sensitive to many things.

For hair washing I use soap nuts which are a natural product and cheap to use. I soak some in boiling water and leave to cool, squeezing them well and removing them (they are also good for clothes).

I also brew some sage and rosemary leaves, with roobosh tea and when cool sieve and add some drops of sage and rosemary essential oils which is restoring the colour on my greying hair and use some of this with the sssoap nuts and the rest for this in rinsing.

For my skin I am daily rotating a few different sensitive face wash products but my skin is itching so I will probably go back to a home made olive oil soap but using it sparingly.

 

[Mary Lyn]

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[I love roses]

@I love roses I am extremely sensitive to chemicals since being poisoned with pesticide. and my skin is extremely sensitive to many things.

For hair washing I use soap nuts which are a natural product and cheap to use. I soak some in boiling water and leave to cool, squeezing them well and removing them (they are also good for clothes).

I also brew some sage and rosemary leaves, with roobosh tea and when cool sieve and add some drops of sage and rosemary essential oils which is restoring the colour on my greying hair and use some of this with the sssoap nuts and the rest for this in rinsing.

For my skin I am daily rotating a few different sensitive face wash products but my skin is itching so I will probably go back to a home made olive oil soap but using it sparingly.

Put calamine lotion on your face at night to hold moisture in. That helps dryness for me because the air conditioning can’t dry out my skin while I sleep under my fan. I just put it around the end of my nose cause that is where l peel.

Do soap nuts darken the hair? I like my white hair.

I had seriously thought about soap nuts. Some people mix soap nuts with indian gooseberries and one other thing. It is an old standby from India and darkens the hair like you like.

I was poisoned too and got way worse but I’ve had this before I was poisoned. I had put indoor grade plywood under my mattress. The formaldehyde in the glue made me wheeze. Then I felt like ants biting me all over but I thought that was my thyroid meds being off. I was just taking antihistamines to no avail and the fumes wouldn’t dissipate after a month. So I googled itchy stinging skin, wheezing, bug bite sensation and found out formaldehyde poisoning causes that and that formaldehyde is in indoor plywood glue worse than exterior plywood and that it is symptom of poisoning. Also the half life for formaldehyde is two years!!! So I threw the plywood out in the yard and was better in minutes. At least I could breathe. The bug bite sensation too a week though. Also laundry detergents no longer list ingredients and I don’t know if it is true because some websites generate fear to get you to buy things, but some say a type of derivative or form of formaldehyde is in some laundry soaps. But some things if a few molecules are altered it is harmless so I don’t know what to believe.

Then I read formaldehyde is added to foreign clothes to keep them from molding in shipping. So they said let your clothes sit in cold water 24 to 48 hours with full fat powdered milk to neutralize the formaldehyde. Until we can get some regulation from our government and force company disclosure no telling what toxic wastes corporations are finding new uses for in junk foods, soaps, and whatever else we use. My grandmothers never complained of this. My problems went nuts at 40.

I’m seriously considering the soap nuts because I had just read up on them last week.

 

[Mary Lyn]

No soap nuts do not darken it is the herbs that I am using. Oh yes I use Indian goosberries too when I remember. I am highly sensitive to formaldeyde too. Laminate florring contains a lot in this country (so I bought some from Germany where it is banned) and radiator paint off gasses it when they are on.

I did have MCS before the pestide from mercury poisoning when an infant but it made it much worse until I was so bad I could not tolerate the chlorine from a running tap. Diet and house clean up has worked very well and I am not so sensitive but my skin still is.

My home is not too dry. In the UK it is humididty that is the problem.

 

[I love roses]

What is MCS? I had gotten a little better but had started water aerobics and it knocked me back. But i may get vitamin C spray to neutralize the chlorine after I shower.

I have humidity too. Either extreme can cause seborrhea. It is as if any irritant or body imbalance disturbs the skin balance. When I was young i had few issues. Now I think mine is my thyroid. My endo demanded to lower my medicine and I haven’t been right since. But that formaldehyde was a separate issue. Maybe it got on my bed. My bed stunk like that glue for a while and l had to move it to another room and sleep on something else a while. I hate these spells with my health cause I have to keep at it until I find the solution.

 

[Mary Lyn]

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

You can get shower sprays that have filters.

Yes endo problems too. It has been clean eating that has saved me. Quitting caffeine helped my adreals and thyroid a lot. Sob! No chocolate.

 

[I love roses]

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

You can get shower sprays that have filters.

Yes endo problems too. It has been clean eating that has saved me. Quitting caffeine helped my adreals and thyroid a lot. Sob! No chocolate.

I shower at the gym. we don’t have much chlorine in our water. The shower and soap won’t remove pool chlorine. I need to work out for an hour.We have brown water from ancient cypress trees deep in the earth. They tried to add chlorine to make it clear and we all raised you know what. I have lead house pipes too. USA is just now removing most lead from new metal water pipenbeing made.

I am addicted to caffeine. I drink six cups coffee some days. I don’t think .I can quit. I’ve been on high dose synthroid so long I don’t think I would heal. I have brain fog. it helps me talk to people. It’s speed, Christian crank! It’s my drug of choice. My TSH is 57 without synthroid. Supposed to be 1.

 

[Mary Lyn]

Yes you would heal and yes you can quit.

One of the important things when fighting addiction is to eat a high nutrient diet as it will correct the brain chemical imbalance and the microbiome dysfunction..

 

[I love roses]

How long does just giving up caffeine work? I eat pretty clean. No fast food or box mixes. I don’t have access to organics much. very little bread. although I plan to switch to buckwheat which isn’t a grain. I’m signing off. for now. Food topics is an obsession.

 

[Mary Lyn]

Giving up caffeine getting enough sleep and reducing stress will let the adrenals heal so they will support the thyroid better. Loads of advise out there on kidding addictions. I was also addicted to sugar and salt. After only one week the cravings reduce.

 

[Lady Penelope]

I developed sensitivities to chemicals and dyes a few years ago. Had to switch out detergents and cosmetics etc.
I tried goat milk and soy based and honey based formulas each with limited success.

I found Dr Bronner castile soap unscented caused no reaction. You can make your own castille soap too. I use it in the laundry and shower and for hair and face wash and as a hand wash. The dog gets bathed in it too!

 

[Judge]

Around puberty substances like cigarette smoke and cheap perfumes became horribly toxic to me. Made me miserable for decades. Some complex combinations of chemicals just make my metabolism go "berserk" at times. Ironically though other purely organic substances such as pot had no real negative effects in comparison.

As a child I had a few food allergies, although doctors never really did pin down what the exact substances were that caused certain symptoms. And of course I've always had hay fever and allergies to dust and things like sagebrush. Making life in the desert challenging at times. As a very young child I was also exposed regularly to DDT when I lived on the island of Guam.

 

[DesertRose]

We have much the same problem here. So far, the generic baby wash from walmart, Equate, Suave Daily Clarifying shampoo, or Ivory soap work for us. I would google "handmade soap", find someone near you, and ask them if they'd make you some Castille soap, which is made from Olive oil, with no fragrance. Or, Google unscented handmade soap.
With my son, we have not been able to use scented laundry products, and especially not any dryer sheets for many years, actually all his life. Even touching someone else's clothing with perfume or laundry products made him break out. My other children and myself had reactions -either upper respiratory, or rash to other laundry/fragrances/soaps as well.
Before you attempt soap making, be sure to learn more about it. I made a batch of Lavender soap when he was a baby, and we both got sick from the Lavender scent.
We've (me) dealt with multiple allergies all my life, weird ones to usual ones. It is very possible to be in contact with a substance for years and not have a reaction, then suddenly you're allergic. It's similar to a thermometer, when it hits that level in your life, then boom, allergy, can't have that anymore.
Weird thing, I ate apples all my life. One day I ate one and started bleeding internally. Yeah, weird. The doc said it was ulcerative colitis. Well, allergy testing proved I was severely allergic. My grandmother of 86 never had a case of poison oak all her life, even though working in the yard and garden. Then boom, she broke out in a horrible case. So it proves, you can go for years with something, no problem, then allergic to it. 24 hr allergy meds work great. I hope you find relief, and I know how hard it is. A varied diet helps (with food allergies). In my research I found that what food you crave most is likely one you're allergic to. Also one you eat, or are exposed to most is likely an allergen as well.
I've also found thst when the body is full of yeast growth, and bad bacteria, it is more susceptible to allergies. That may be a route to check as well.
I hope you find relief.

 

[garnetflower13]

How long does just giving up caffeine work? I eat pretty clean. No fast food or box mixes. I don’t have access to organics much. very little bread. although I plan to switch to buckwheat which isn’t a grain. I’m signing off. for now. Food topics is an obsession.

These two books saved my life, as far as lots of health problems being diminished or resolved: The Mood Cure, by Julia Ross, and The Magnesium Miracle, by Carolyn Dean.

A lot of the problems you are describing are caused by diet, and Prednisone is one of the most evil drugs around. (I have had to take it, on and off, for the past twenty years.) I hope you check these books out, and that they are of some help to you!

 

[I love roses]

These two books saved my life, as far as lots of health problems being diminished or resolved: The Mood Cure, by Julia Ross, and The Magnesium Miracle, by Carolyn Dean.

A lot of the problems you are describing are caused by diet, and Prednisone is one of the most evil drugs around. (I have had to take it, on and off, for the past twenty years.) I hope you check these books out, and that they are of some help to you!

I have an eating disorder. I medicate with food. It does flare me up to over consume anything, or eat wheat, rye, too much white rice. That is because of type 2 diabetes. But I can keep it close to normal.
I know I need more magnesium and zinc but i take it in supplement regardless of time of day, it interferes with my thyroid uptake medicine, even if I eat nuts to get it. Have to avoid extreme fiber net that med, too. I’ve had prednizone a few times. it can be dangerous. I use a food counting app to help with the diet part, “My stupid simple macros.”

 

[I love roses]

A lot of the problems you are describing are caused by diet

I think diet is most of it. I eat too much i get a flare. I fast i get a gout feeling. It is murder. So complicated!

 

[I love roses]

We have much the same problem here. So far, the generic baby wash from walmart, Equate, Suave Daily Clarifying shampoo, or Ivory soap work for us. I would google "handmade soap", find someone near you, and ask them if they'd make you some Castille soap, which is made from Olive oil, with no fragrance. Or, Google unscented handmade soap.
With my son, we have not been able to use scented laundry products, and especially not any dryer sheets for many years, actually all his life. Even touching someone else's clothing with perfume or laundry products made him break out. My other children and myself had reactions -either upper respiratory, or rash to other laundry/fragrances/soaps as well.
Before you attempt soap making, be sure to learn more about it. I made a batch of Lavender soap when he was a baby, and we both got sick from the Lavender scent.
We've (me) dealt with multiple allergies all my life, weird ones to usual ones. It is very possible to be in contact with a substance for years and not have a reaction, then suddenly you're allergic. It's similar to a thermometer, when it hits that level in your life, then boom, allergy, can't have that anymore.
Weird thing, I ate apples all my life. One day I ate one and started bleeding internally. Yeah, weird. The doc said it was ulcerative colitis. Well, allergy testing proved I was severely allergic. My grandmother of 86 never had a case of poison oak all her life, even though working in the yard and garden. Then boom, she broke out in a horrible case. So it proves, you can go for years with something, no problem, then allergic to it. 24 hr allergy meds work great. I hope you find relief, and I know how hard it is. A varied diet helps (with food allergies). In my research I found that what food you crave most is likely one you're allergic to. Also one you eat, or are exposed to most is likely an allergen as well.
I've also found thst when the body is full of yeast growth, and bad bacteria, it is more susceptible to allergies. That may be a route to check as well.
I hope you find relief.

You just described my entire experience my whole life with allergies. Borderline diabetes feeds my yeast and affects my immunity and over consuming fat free crackers and weight gain may have caused or at least aggrevated hashimotos