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estebanana -> RE: 19th century spirit guitar (Jun. 15 2023 12:22:54)
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ORIGINAL: silddx
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Don’t mess your hands up. Too much washing and letting them get dry is a bad deal. Use a hand cream every day even if you think you’re doing ok.
Yep. I have eczema too, all over, since birth, but it's controlled well with steroid ointment and vigilance. Aoparently I can't produce two protective proteins on my skin so I get constant immune responses.
My hands are not good, too. On the top though, palms are mostly ok. I completely agree about keeping any exposed skin moisturised. Limit sun exposure, watch those detergents and chemicals.
I hope your hands recover soon Stephen.
Silddx,
I’ve been thinking about your post for days, I’m sorry to hear you have eczema. It seems I’ve had some very mild reactions throughout my life, but have never equated the reactions with eczema, it seems it’s coming on with more serious reactions as I get older. This week I’ve had a good turn in in the condition of my palms through diligent treatment by corticosteroids and hand creams.
I started using a daytime cream with ceramid which is supposed to be good for building the kinds of barriers your skin naturally produces.
I think from here I’m going to have to be extremely observant of my skin and the sensitization from materials. One of the reasons I’ll never and have never used cocobolo wood. I used it for a few bridges 20 years ago and it gave me a bad runny nose and a mild rash. I stopped using that wood.
A lot of the wood we use has toxicity, and once checked out a book from the library on recommendation from a friend who was a horticulturist. The book was called Dendro Toxicology- the book was as thick as an old phone book. Trees are filled with crazy chemicals. Maybe trees have some chemicals we’ll find someday that will cure eczema. That’d be wildly ironic and wonderful.
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