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"Susan H. Simko" wrote in message ...
Kira Dirlik wrote:

A dermatologist told me not to use Tide... that it was one of the
worst. I don't use any fabric softeners, nor sheets of stuff in my
dryer. Use dermatologist-recommended Dove soap.
I've lived here in the woods for 7 1/2 years, but the last two summers
I had developed a rash on my feet, ankles, and calves. I've seen a
number of doctors and none can pinpoint it. I know other folks who
seem to have just recently developed this same stuff. Bamboo grass?
(I started pulling it in earnest the last two summers). Systemic
reaction to tick bites? It went away completely last winter, came
back again last summer, and is mostly gone now.

My mom and a friend's mom had something that sounded like this. My mom
in Pennsylvania had it for several *years* before a doctor finally
diagnosed it. It turned out to be a fungal infection. Some drugs and
oitment and she was doing much better. In telling a friend about her
ordeal, it turned out her mother was undergoing somehting similar in
Texas. My friend relayed the info to her mother who had her doctor
check for a fungal infection... She is doing much better now, too,
after drugs and ointment therapy.

Susan
s h simko at duke dot edu

Some 40 years ago, my mom used to plop me down in a bathtub fairly
overflowing with hot water and Mr. Bubble. Oddly, I'd turn a rather
vivid shade of cranberry red just a few hours later.

Experience has taught me that I'd rather not wear clothes washed in
bleach or a bleachy-substitute so I'm vigilent about making detergent
decisions (my, that sounds toffy-nosed).

You might find, as have I, that using bath soap made from Shea Olean
is gentler on the skin. You can get it at the old Wellsprings in
Raleigh.