Recipe for those with dry rashy skin
 

I have had psoriasis and for years I have used this home lotion to control it. The prescription lotion that I used to get was $65 a tube and didn't work. My cousin's dermatologist gave her this recipe when all else failed with her. It makes A LOT, but I use a lot, up 5 times or more a day.

30oz of baby lotion
13oz of Vaseline
8oz Fruit of the Earth Vitamin E w/ Cocoa Butter ( it's very important to use this brand)

Mix with a mixer until smooth and creamy. Place in containers ( I used left over prescription bottles, Vaseline container and the cocoa butter containers)

This time that I made it I used the Bedtime Baby Lotion and it is very soothing. I hope this helps those who have the scaly rash or any other skin roughness.

Have a good night,
Cindi

I forgot to say that I used the Equate of lotion from Wal-mart this time and it seems to absorb better. I also used 4oz of A&D ointment and it makes it even more creamy.:)

My husband gets good results with Aquaphor.
We buy it by the pound at WalMart.

Aquaphor is a hydrophilic ointment made from vaseline. It is often a vehicle for compounded ointments.

He used Dovenex cream for a few months, for one severe area, and that worked too. But he doesn't need that if he keeps up with the Aquaphor instead.

I tried the Aquaphor, Mrs. D, and it worked like a charm! I have dozens of tubes of creams and ointments that are half used (if even that) because they didn't work.

I was hoping they made it in a cream form but all I could find was the ointment. It worked, though, so I'm not complaining! :)

Hi Girls,
 

Thanks for this info. I started getting the dry rashy skin on my leg last winter. My Dr. gave me a script and it did nothing nor did anything I used over the counter. I will be buying some of this to try. They just started on my legs again a few weeks ago.

Ada

My husband's dermatologist uses Aquaphor for all her psoriasis patients. She says it works well most of the time, if the placques on the skin have not advanced too far.

Unlike vaseline, it is not as greasy. But it is not available in a cream.

Eucerin is made in a similar way, and has a cream if some want to try that.

This site gives the ingredients in Aquaphor:
http://www.77canadapharmacy.com/Aquaphor.php

Eucerin has many formulas.... here is the Calming cream.
http://www.drugstore.com/products/pr...41&catid=10401

I am kind of partial to A and D ointment myself. (very healing for hemorrhoids, or fissures, for example). But it may be too greasy for the body for some.

Thanks to EVERYONE who wrote, really!

It seems I got bitten by about at leas by a hundred little black spider bites. (I caught the little basterd, at least one, and it was about less than half inch by half inch. Black.) So, I mean to say, there was only one, that bit me a hunert times! Ugh!

OK.
A trail down or up my right calf. ( I haven't yet got the photos off my camera.}

My Wonderful Dr. has given me a steroid, ya know pills, 7 down to two.....
whatever my memory says....
and I seemed to heal up.
Then, a few days later,


some hives seemed to return, and bump up.

So Today, he wanted me to see a Dermatologist! Agh! (Yes, He is Correct!)

So, I went to the drug store, and I have a 'script for Allegra, so's I can
sleep, wit my CPAP, yea?
Took that.

I got more 1% Hydrocortisone Cream, plus, the same that was Aveeno.

Works good.

So, I'm prayin' that they takes care of it....
I do NOT want to go to a dermatologist..

Yet, I have another issue "skin tags",
that I need to see one about.
So, It's all good.
I just don't want to do it on an
"EMERGENCY" Basis. You dig?
Thanks


If any of Ya'll have any thoughts......
I'd appreciate them.....


Pete
ASB

HEY PETE
Something that works well on warts and skin tags that you can buy over the counter is made by DR SCHOLLS its called FREEZE away,,,,,good stuff,,anything on the shin that looks not quite right ,,i Zap it,,I got the idea last year after going to a dermatologist and he used liquid nitrogen on them,,,they get red and blister up for about 2 weeks ,but then their gone,,,,and the over the counter FREEZE AWAY,,,does the same thing but its 200 dollars cheaper,,it runs about 17 dollars a bottle,,,works wonders,,,,

Spiders don't typically bite you hundreds of times. It might just be a coincidence you found the spider, who may have been looking for other insects near you. A spider injects venom under the skin, and this causes serious effects in most people.
This venom will cause tissue necrosis, a black center to the bite and very poor healing rates. Spider bites are not as common as people think.

Collections of bites, could be bed bugs, or fleas, or chiggers (if you have been outside.).
Itching and hives may indicate scabies as well. If you have been to a beach/sand...there are sand fleas and also swimmer's itch. My son has had swimmer's itch a couple of times and was pretty
miserable. Swimmer's itch is a larva of a snail...and is passed into the water by ducks.
http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5478953/

There is currently a huge epidemic of bed bugs in the US.
This is a major problem in hotels and motels now. Even the 5 star ones.
This is a link to what bed bug bites look like:
http://hotels.about.com/od/hotelsecr.../Bedbug-Bites/
These bugs can get in your luggage and come home with you.
Bed bugs hide during the day, and are hard to find.

Putting the A&D ointment in the lotion recipe is doing great for me. I have been using different types of lotions in the recipe. because I don't want to smell like baby lotion all the time. I really like the lavender bedtime lotion. It's very soothing. I have psoriasis on my scalp and this recipe has worked great as a deep conditioner.:)

Thanks, Mrs. D!
My Dr's secretary mentioned bedbugs to me. I freaked!
I tore the place apart, and, of course washed ALL the bedding.
I also looked on the internet. Saw pictures of all "biting" insects, bedbugs and spiders.
I'm not 100% sure, but, they changed the A/C in my apt. that day. And, I caught a little bug, (I thought it was a spider), and looked similar to something I saw on the internet.
All my plants are in a different room.
this little bug was black, small, like 3/8ths of an inch, and sort of "square" shaped.
That's the one I caught on my leg.

It's about the only bug I've seen.
Except for these "mealy bugs" . I have a Key Lime plant, that I grew from seed. (short story, my father died in FLA, and someone gave me several dozen key limes. I brought a few home, and was able to get one to germinate from the seed. That was in '92. Wifey pleasant as she usually is, threw plant out side, into the snow:eek:
It was dead for all practical purposes. But, I took it, put in a basement, then the next spring, cut it back and put it out in the sun. I was going to empty the soil out, and reuse the pot. and I noticed a few little new branches growing off the bottom. The plant always reminds me of my father. But, these mealy bugs apparently can get through a screen window. It's a high maintenance plant! Thorny too. Yep, just like dad.)

Sorry for the long story.
My bites are healing, and the hives are too, with no more new ones.

I used that Aveeno Oatmeal bath a few times too. Good stuff.

Thanks all!

Pete

Here is a really good link with pictures:

http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/bedbugpictures.htm

Anyone can get these nowadays. The link shows where they can hide.

Chiggers can cause bites too, but are really too small to see. Their bites cluster. My son used to get these, when he was young and getting into piles of leaves, dirt in playgrounds etc. Once he had them all over his stomach.
http://insects.suite101.com/article....arasitic_mites

Scabies can be hard to diagnose. Many of the original bites can occur on the hands, back of the knees. But people then get allergic reactions to them all over the body, and these may be hive like and are very itchy. So the hives don't look like scabies, but the scabies may be elsewhere on the body.

I recall a embarrassing story a colleague told me. Her son had an ear infection so she took him to the doctor. After examining him the doctor turned to her and said "By the way, your son also has scabies". She was mortified that she didn't know it, and that he caught it. It could be all over her home by now!

Have you had chicken pox as a kid? If not, it could even be chicken pox!

Sometimes these things are hard to identify.

actually from reading the ingrediants on the aquaphor and the eucerine, the eucerine has water as first ingrediant and others high up on list that can/will just evaporate and give no therapeutic effect. The Aqua on the other hand has only solid ingrediants. No wasted money............if you have to apply it several times more and in greater amts for prob still less efficacy, well that is a waste. :)
thanks for bringing up this topic I too am in need!