Guest guest Posted June 29, 2002 Report Share Posted June 29, 2002 Ever since the hot humid air has moved in, i find that my skin is acting up a bit..A few extra pimples here and there. Anyone else find the same thing with the humid air? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2002 Report Share Posted June 29, 2002 Ever since the hot humid air has moved in, i find that my skin is acting up a bit..A few extra pimples here and there. Anyone else find the same thing with the humid air? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2002 Report Share Posted June 30, 2002 > Ever since the hot humid air has moved in, i find that > my skin is acting up a bit..A few extra pimples here and there. > Anyone else find the same thing with the humid air? > > Thanks. > Yes, yes, and yes. Heat and humidity are not a friend to the rosacean, especially if you exercise in the outdoors. Here in the Piedmont of NC it tends to be hot and sticky even in the wee hours of the pre-sunrise Summer mornings when I do most of my runs. But at least at this time of day I avoid the neighbors who scream, " DANG! YOU GOT A SUNBURN ON YOUR FACE, JILLIAN. HEY, EVERYBODY, LOOK AT JILLIAN'S SUNBURN! " OR: " JILLIAN, YOUR FACE IS REALLY, REALLY RED. YOU LOOK LIKE A DEEP-FRIED TOMATO. ARE YOU HAVING A STROKE? " Non- rosaceans tend to suffer a lack of the finely honed cache of social niceties that WE instinctively possess. I have never found myself yelling at my neighbors, " HEY, BILLYBOB, YOUR NOSE IS CROOKED, YOUR POTBELLY LOOKS LIKE IT NEEDS ITS OWN ZIPCODE, AND YOUR EYEBROWS RESEMBLE CATEPILLARS, HEY, EVERYBODY, LOOK AT BILLYBOB'S EYEBROWS! " After I return from my inevitably flush inducing run, I immediately stroke my face with my special alum-spiked ice cubes (I put a dash of alum- a pickling salt- into the distilled water that constitutes my post exercise ice cubes.) These seem to chase away the excess blood from my face faster than regular ice cubes, thereby stopping the resulting pimples and pustules typically brought on by a lingering flush. NOTE: I'm not really endorsing this; you know that we rosaceans have sundry triggers in addition to our own specific topical tolerances. Some of you could react adversely to alum, in the same way my face reacts when I put Aveeno products (or anything with oatmeal in it) on my face: I turn painfully beet red, develop throbbing erythema, and get huge, pus filled cysts on my face. So if you put alum in an ice cube, test it on a small patch of your face for several weeks before you progress to a full face swiping. Sometimes it takes a while for a topical intolerance to manifest itself. Well, I'm off for a run, and then a couple of Mc's breakfast burritos. Take care, Tony. And all of you-- Jillian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2002 Report Share Posted June 30, 2002 > Ever since the hot humid air has moved in, i find that > my skin is acting up a bit..A few extra pimples here and there. > Anyone else find the same thing with the humid air? > > Thanks. > Yes, yes, and yes. Heat and humidity are not a friend to the rosacean, especially if you exercise in the outdoors. Here in the Piedmont of NC it tends to be hot and sticky even in the wee hours of the pre-sunrise Summer mornings when I do most of my runs. But at least at this time of day I avoid the neighbors who scream, " DANG! YOU GOT A SUNBURN ON YOUR FACE, JILLIAN. HEY, EVERYBODY, LOOK AT JILLIAN'S SUNBURN! " OR: " JILLIAN, YOUR FACE IS REALLY, REALLY RED. YOU LOOK LIKE A DEEP-FRIED TOMATO. ARE YOU HAVING A STROKE? " Non- rosaceans tend to suffer a lack of the finely honed cache of social niceties that WE instinctively possess. I have never found myself yelling at my neighbors, " HEY, BILLYBOB, YOUR NOSE IS CROOKED, YOUR POTBELLY LOOKS LIKE IT NEEDS ITS OWN ZIPCODE, AND YOUR EYEBROWS RESEMBLE CATEPILLARS, HEY, EVERYBODY, LOOK AT BILLYBOB'S EYEBROWS! " After I return from my inevitably flush inducing run, I immediately stroke my face with my special alum-spiked ice cubes (I put a dash of alum- a pickling salt- into the distilled water that constitutes my post exercise ice cubes.) These seem to chase away the excess blood from my face faster than regular ice cubes, thereby stopping the resulting pimples and pustules typically brought on by a lingering flush. NOTE: I'm not really endorsing this; you know that we rosaceans have sundry triggers in addition to our own specific topical tolerances. Some of you could react adversely to alum, in the same way my face reacts when I put Aveeno products (or anything with oatmeal in it) on my face: I turn painfully beet red, develop throbbing erythema, and get huge, pus filled cysts on my face. So if you put alum in an ice cube, test it on a small patch of your face for several weeks before you progress to a full face swiping. Sometimes it takes a while for a topical intolerance to manifest itself. Well, I'm off for a run, and then a couple of Mc's breakfast burritos. Take care, Tony. And all of you-- Jillian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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