Re: [IPk] reply to Rhoda - more creaking bits
Hi Rhoda..
Oh, sorry to hear you're feeling lousy.
My daughter and husband both have excema and my son has asthma. The excema
is bad right now. My daughter seems to have flare-ups, nop idea why, apart
from the obvious of certain products irritating her, etc. But I honestly think
the weather or whatever is floating around has an effect too! I use
hydrocortisone cream for her, plus neoclarityn medicine. Another product that I
used to
use, and must get some more of, which does work (but not on the face) is
Propolis (sp?) cream, available at some expense from health food shops. It's a
natrual by product from bees snfd makes a lovely hand cream (!) if you can't
use it anywhere else! The asthma..I just know this time last year my son was
having a horrendous time on his third lot of steroids and off school again yet
had never had problems like this before. He had a lot of allergy testing
done. Turns out he had really extreme allergies to..something..but nothing on
the very complex list they tested him for! But whatever it was it was causing
the asthma flare-up. He got over it eventually, but it did take a while. This
year, touch wood, he's been fine! I know steroids can cause BG
swings..ugh..having had them in October and I've not been able to get my basals
properly
back down since. Even the inhalers can cause some rise, although not as much as
the tablets.
Hope things improve soon..I do feel this has been a 'bad' winter for
viruses, too. No-one seems to have been free of them since well before
Christmas!
take care
helen
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