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August 7, 2006

Tired Of Scratching? How To Weather `Winter Itch'

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48942

Not all winter flakes are made of snow. Cold weather wreaks havoc on

our skin, sometimes making it dry and flaky. Skin dries out if it's

deprived of water and this dryness often causes itchiness, resulting

in a condition commonly referred to as " winter itch. "

" Most of us experience dry and itchy skin from time to time, but you

should seek medical attention if discomfort becomes severe, " says Dr.

Sternberg, a dermatologist at NewYork-Presbyterian

Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. " The best thing you can do to

relieve the itch is to moisturize your skin because, unfortunately,

you can't do anything about the weather. "

" Remember, dry skin is due to lack of water. Apply moisturizers

immediately after bathing or showering, while your skin is still wet

to trap water in the skin, " notes Dr. Sternberg.

She suggests the following tips to turn your skin from alligator into

suede:

-- Moisturize daily. Cream moisturizers are better than lotions for

normal to dry skin. People with sensitive skin should choose a

moisturizer without fragrance or lanolin.

-- Cleanse your skin, but don't overdo it. It is enough to wash your

face, hands, feet, and between the folds of your skin once a day. The

trunk, arms, and legs can be rinsed daily, but it is not necessary to

use soap or cleanser on these areas every day. Too much cleansing

removes the skin's natural moisturizers.

-- Limit the use of hot water and soap. If you have " winter itch, "

take short lukewarm showers or baths with a non-irritating, non-

detergent-based cleanser. Immediately afterward, apply a " water-in-

oil " -- type moisturizer. Gently pat skin dry.

-- Humidify. Humidifiers can be beneficial. However, be sure to clean

the unit according to the manufacturer's instructions to reduce mold

and fungi.

-- Protect yourself from the wind. Cover your face and use a

petroleum-based balm for your lips.

-- Avoid extreme cold. Cold temperatures can cause skin disorders or

frostbite in some people. See a doctor immediately if you develop

color changes in your hands or feet accompanied by pain or

ulceration. If you develop extreme pain followed by loss of sensation

in a finger or toe, you may have frostbite.

-- Protect your skin from the sun. Winter sun can be as dangerous for

the skin as summer sun. It can lead to premature aging of the skin

and skin cancer. When outdoors for prolonged periods, use a sunscreen

with a sun-protection factor of 15 or greater.

-- Exercise. For skin with a healthy glow, 20 to 30 minutes of

aerobic exercise three times a week is recommended.

-- See your dermatologist. If you have persistent dry skin, scaling,

itching, skin growths that concern you, or other rashes, see your

dermatologist -- not only in winter but throughout the year.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

525 East 68th Street, Box 144

New York, NY 10021

USA

http://www.nyp.org

August 8, 2006

I'm just curious, is anyone taking any type of pain relievers with Codeine in

them? That will make you itch.

August 9, 2006

I keep track of what makes me itch. A few days ago at the stretch session

we worked on my neck and all the sudden my scalp started itching like mad.

It was a strange reaction, I think because when muscles loosen up sometimes

lactic acid built up in them releases. Anyway, it was really odd. I am

adding that on the list of things to look up and research when I get a

chance.

Donna from London

August 12, 2006

My son itched in his moldy school building and my students in my classroom in my

moldy school building often complained of itching when exposed.

mccallalton <mccallalton@...> wrote: has

anyone ever itched all over from mold exposure? especially

worsens on humid days or around 4 pm on????

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August 12, 2006

YEP

[] itching

has anyone ever itched all over from mold exposure? especially

worsens on humid days or around 4 pm on????

August 12, 2006

Try doing things for your liver. Generalized

itching can be due to liver inflamation or

toxicity. Liver can become toxic from mycotoxins

or fungal infections. Rashes can also develope

from same problem.

See hepatoxicity for info, or google

liver+itching for more info. Milk thistle seems

the most common thing people try. Many here use

CSM powder if you can get an Rx. Activated

charcoal also an option. Try these and see if

that helps to relieve itching.

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: mccallalton

> >

> has anyone ever itched all over from mold

> exposure? especially

> worsens on humid days or around 4 pm on????

August 12, 2006

I just started the new symptom of itching last week. Even though, I have been

repeated exposure to mold this week, since I have been doing the Stanley

Burrough's Master Cleanse, there has been NO ITCHING. Yes, I have the hives on

the face and my hpersensitivity has been heightened to the point that eve a

BRAND NEW HOTEL , I can not even sleep in.

@...: barb1283@...: Sat, 12 Aug 2006

12:51:02 -0700Subject: Re: [] itching

Try doing things for your liver. Generalizeditching can be due to liver

inflamation ortoxicity. Liver can become toxic from mycotoxinsor fungal

infections. Rashes can also developefrom same problem. See hepatoxicity for

info, or googleliver+itching for more info. Milk thistle seemsthe most common

thing people try. Many here useCSM powder if you can get an Rx.

Activatedcharcoal also an option. Try these and see ifthat helps to relieve

itching. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mccallalton > > > has anyone

ever itched all over from mold> exposure? especially> worsens on humid days or

around 4 pm on????

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August 13, 2006

Letitia, why do you think the symptoms of

hypersensitivity has increased?

Is the Master Cleanse also called the Lemonade

Diet??? I hate lemonade, but if I was convinced

it would work, I would do it.

--- Letitia s <mold_activist@...>

wrote:

> I just started the new symptom of itching last

> week. Even though, I have been repeated

> exposure to mold this week, since I have been

> doing the Stanley Burrough's Master Cleanse,

> there has been NO ITCHING. Yes, I have the

> hives on the face and my hpersensitivity has

> been heightened to the point that eve a BRAND

> NEW HOTEL , I can not even sleep in.

>

> @...:

> barb1283@...: Sat, 12 Aug 2006

> 12:51:02 -0700Subject: Re: []

> itching

>

> Try doing things for your liver.

> Generalizeditching can be due to liver

> inflamation ortoxicity. Liver can become toxic

> from mycotoxinsor fungal infections. Rashes can

> also developefrom same problem.

August 13, 2006

was it worse at certain times of the day???

<toriaquilts@...> wrote: YEP

[] itching

has anyone ever itched all over from mold exposure? especially

worsens on humid days or around 4 pm on????

August 13, 2006

YEP

>

> [] itching

>

> has anyone ever itched all over from mold exposure? especially

> worsens on humid days or around 4 pm on????

Before we had our house tested we were all itching with small heat

rash type bumps on our tourso. It was miserable. I don't remember

it being worse at any particular time of the day. We had 3 dogs at

the time and they all began to itch. They were hospitalized at the

vet for 3 days and he never found what was making them itch.

Finally one of the dogs had puppies and the puppies became covered

with black spots that were like tar. One of the persons who took

one of the puppies took it to the same vet and he was just astounded

at the condition of the puppy. We had the itch until after we moved

out of the house. My sheets rotted and I didn't know it. One night

I got into bed and my foot went through my sheet. One of my

blankets rotted. It began to have holes in it and I didn't know

why. I just thought it was old. My sofa began to split as we sat

on it and I had not had it long and bought it at Dillards. Our

houose had so much moisture everything was rotting right before our

eyes and we didn't know why. It was definately one of the worst

experiences of my life and I still live with it every day. We are

still in litigation after all these years. I am truly sorry to hear

of your problems and I sincerely hope you fair better than we have.

Jane

>

August 13, 2006

I have had itching, burning, swelling, etc. sensations from mold

countless times.

One interesting thought is that where high humidity and mold exist,

there is in all probability also bacteria..

One interesting thing I read recently is that a common component of

high-bacteria environments - lipopolysaccharides (LPS) - which are a

form of endotoxin strongly potentiate the toxicity from several

mycotoxins and that a number of situations result in exposure to these

LPS compounds. For example, look what I read in the introcuction to a

paper on vomitoxin toxicity I stumbled across recently..

This quote was from:

Lipopolysaccharide and the Trichothecene Vomitoxin (Deoxynivalenol)

Synergistically Induce Apoptosis in Murine Lymphoid Organs

Hui-Ren Zhou,* Jack R. Harkema,‡, ¶,|| Jon A. Hotchkiss,‡, ¶ Ding

Yan,* A. Roth,§, ¶,|| and J. Pestka*,†, ¶,||,1

(Please excuse any OCR errors in the below)

" Endotoxin is a biologically active component of Gram negative

bacterial cell walls that exists as complexes of lipopolysaccharide

(LPS) and protein (Hewett and Roth, 1993).

LPS is the chemical substituent with principal biologic activity

and plays a critical role in immune and inflammatory responses

to Gram-negative bacteria. Exposure to it can stimulate both

mononuclear phagocyte function and other host responses that

result in removal of invading bacteria. Exposure to a small LPS

dose does not normally cause life-threatening tissue damage,

but it can initiate an incomplete and submaximal inflammatory

response. Although such a modest inflammatory response may

be insufficient to cause overt injury in unstressed individuals,

these responses may alter homeostasis in individuals coexposed

to a stress (such as a chemical insult) with the net result

being frank tissue injury.

There is extensive evidence that LPS can influence the

magnitude of toxic responses to xenobiotic agents. In some

cases, LPS contamination of an environmental chemical source

(e.g., LPS in machining fluids) may be the primary determinant

of the toxic response (Gordon and Harkema, 1995; Mattsby-

Baltzer et al., 1989), whereas in other cases concurrent exposure

to small amounts of LPS may magnify the inherent toxicity

of a chemical. For example, exposure to modest, normally

nontoxic doses of LPS markedly increases the hepatotoxic

responses to a number of xenobiotic agents including CCl4,

ethanol, galactosamine, and allyl alcohol (reviewed in Roth et

al., 1997). These and other examples suggest that humans

exposed to low doses of LPS may represent a subpopulation

that is particularly sensitive to xenobiotic chemicals.The trichothecenes

are a group of sesquiterpenoid fungal toxins that

includes some of the most potent protein synthesis inhibitors

known (Ueno, 1987). Trichothecene mycotoxins are commonly

found in cereal grains as a result of Fusarium infestation

and have also been detected in air samples from waterdamaged

buildings that harbor the growth of Stachyobotrys

(Johanning et al., 1996). The trichothecene vomitoxin (VT or

deoxynivalenol) is a common contaminant of wheat and corn

products and can be found at ppm levels in ready-to-eat foods

(Rotter et al., 1996). Hallmarks of experimental or accidental

high-dose trichothecene exposure include rapid diminution of

lymphoid tissue and lymphopenia that precede death via a

circulatory shocklike syndrome (Beardall and , 1994).

Apoptosis is a programmed mode of cell death that is essential

in several biologic circumstances, including development

of the immune system (Cohen et al., 1992). Cells undergoing

apoptosis in vivo demonstrate nuclear and cytoplasmic

condensation and dissolution into membrane-bound fragments

that are phagocytosed by neighboring cells and rapidly degraded.

A principal role for programmed cell death is thought

to be efficient removal of stressed, damaged, or unnecessary

cells from a tissue without the generation of inflammatory or

immune responses. Exposure in vivo to large doses of LPS

induces apoptosis in splenic germinal centers and thymus

(THY) of mice (Zhang et al., 1994) and swine (Norimatsu et

al., 1995). Recently, the induction of thymic atrophy with

accompanying thymocyte apoptosis was reported in mice exposed

to intraperitoneal injections of the trichothecenes T-2

toxin and fusarenone (Islam et al., 1998).

In previous studies with mice, it has been observed that

trichothecenes become more toxic in the presence of LPS,

thereby causing markedly elevated tissue injury and mortality

(Tai and Pestka, 1988; et al., 1991; Zhou, et al., 1999).

Pronounced thymic and splenic lymphocyte depletion were

characteristically observed in these studies. Because either LPS

or trichothecenes alone will induce apoptosis in lymphoid

tissue at large doses, we sought to evaluate the effects of low

doses of Salmonella typhimurium LPS and a common foodborne

trichothecene, VT, on apoptosis in four potential lymphoid

targets, namely, thymus (THY), Peyer's patches (PP),

spleen (SP), and bone marrow (BM). The study yielded both

qualitative and quantitative evidence indicating that low doses

of LPS and VT synergistically increase apoptotic cell loss in

lymphoid tissue. "

August 13, 2006

I itch alot on the trunk of my body usually when I have been eating

food that isn't good for the candida. I am not on the diet but had

tried it without success. But I am allergic to candida so it is harder

to get rid of. I do use zinc oxide on my belly everyday and back after

a shower and it helps the itching. it also helped get rid of those

brown skin tags thingys. I had a lot of them on my belly and most are

gone now. I once had severe uticaria when I first got ill and had to

go to the hospital. Looked 100 years old. They gave me a benedryl

injection and predizone. Had to take it for a while cuz the uticaria

came back twice in one week. The beginning of all this mess, mcs,

etc.

August 13, 2006

Maybe I will try that. I have also heard of making a paste from nystatin and

apying it to the skin. my back, trunk, head, and arms are the worst.

ldelp84227 <ldelp84227@...> wrote: I itch

alot on the trunk of my body usually when I have been eating