Detoxification Continues

[billroper]

I'm ramping down the dosage on the antihistamines as I slowly improve from my sulfite poisoning. This is improving my attention span, which was somewhere down around the level of Kiki the Ferret.

In the meantime, I'm trying to get some work done (compile in progress!) and am planning to meet Gretchen for lunch, which has added one more item to her busy schedule of errands for the day. (There's a WindyCon mailing meeting tonight at our house. I hear people may actually show up for the mailing this year. Last year, not even the Publications head showed up. *sigh* So Gretchen is running around picking up stamps and such.)

For some perverse reason that I don't understand, sunshine seems to help clear up the associated skin rash. This is another good reason to go out for lunch. :)

Comments

skin rash

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

It's the UV content.
manymany years ago (even before I discovered Fandom, i think) I got a case of a whole-body rash called "ptoriasis rosea" [which means "little red spots that we don't know what causes them"]. Treatment was a short zap in a UV cabinet (like a tanning bed, only standing up) and a recommendation of a mild cream that I don't recall the name of anymore.

Re: skin rash

[billroper]

That makes sense. Thanks!

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I so understand the antihistamine feelings. I'm trying out benedryl cream for something and it finally hit me why I was feeling so tired and under a fog! So that's why they tell you not to use the cream and the pills both at the same time - it really is the same medicine. I never really thought it through that the exhaustion I get from the pill would go with the cream too.

Vitamin D, son.

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

That and the UV but an hour in the sun will do you more good than a week in a tanning bed. They had an interesting article a while back in RIDER magazine about why motorcyclists tend to be happier than the population at large... turns out that almost ALL people who spend lots of time outdoors in the sunnyshine (golfers, bicyclists, hikers) are healthier and happier, fewer skin problems, breathing issues, mood problems, etc. In the winter time, skiers are far less depressed as a sub-group than a general cross section.

Feeling sick? Take a walk in the sun, I guess!