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Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?
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ZINC OXIDE BLOCKS UVA UVB INFARED
Example: I have a propane radiant heater (propane 40 pound contained with heater screwed on top.
7 feet away my bare skin feels the heat from INFARED radiation. No hot air, just the INFARED waves. Bad for us.
The SUN emits all three. A fire emits INFARED.
Therefore the ZINC OXIDE protects the GROVERS from all three.
Most sun screens people uise normally DO NOT block the heat.
See: https://www.warrentondermatology.com/blog/infrared-rays-what-your-sunscreen-may-be-missing.
More: Heat Stuff:
I'm buying an all cotton mattress.
Those "memory foams" are murder on us guys. My back temperature is is 95F as I sit here typing, and I can tell that it wants to itch. . The memory foam puts it up a lot.
The following will cool my back;
I am working on a sleeping invention for us guys. Going to use air mattress as mattress top.
Pin holes in the air mattress at my trunk area only will leak little jets air at room temperature. A tiny low pressure compressor will run the air through a tiny "radiator" to cool it. You can put on the AC cold air output. This is getting better as I write. I do my best invention designs, when I explain them to people. A plus is ..... You can take it when you travel and use it on top of hotel bed. Whoa! Freedom!
I Love doing this stuff. Been an engineer (software, computer circuits) as a consultant for 35 years. Now retired 8 years and have a workshop with Lathe, Brake, Band Saw, Welders: Gas, Stick, Mig, and others. Dozens of AIR tools, hand tools. It would take days to move my shop to another property. So I gotta stay here. Started early (12 years old - build a gocart with lawnmower motor. At 16 put a 331 Chrysler Hemi in a 50 Ford.
So if you folks want chat about things other than Grovers, that would be fun.
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I want to follow and mention that at the time I bought the memory foam mattress I didn't have GD. I developed it about 6 months after I had the mattress. Immediately after patch testing I tried encasing it in a plastic barrier and getting a very heavy cotton pad, but then got rid of the mattress anyway out of caution.
My back and stomach and ribcage BURN like someone lit my skin on a skillet and put it back on my body. Being near a hot oven or in the sun kills me and others can feel my skin is hot to the touch. The derms all say this is NOT from the Grover’s yet I only burn where the Grover’s rash is. Please tell me more about your hot skin.
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Admire your engineering skills. So little is offered to assist eczema and GD patients we will welcome aids to help our skin be more comfortable.
Memory Foam Danger- Good plan to get a mattress free of memory foam. Besides the heat which even a heavy mattress pad cannot block, my memory foam mattress is what triggered my explosion of symptoms with Allergic Contact Dermatitis, ACD, which I had dealt with for a decade but didn't know about testing. My symptom's were mainly on my hands, face and scalp. They would come and go and steroids helped when symptomatic. Then I bought a memory foam mattress hoping it would help me sleep better. I didn't realize what a chemical and natural element stew memory foam is. Polyurethane foam is different.
Memory foam is compounded using different elements in rubber. One element Mercaptobenzothiazole, MBT, synthesizes the blending of materials. I tested highly allergic to it. After a month my entire body inside my skin became inflamed. Stinging, zapping, burning and itching. 24/7 and worse at night when our histamines are elevated. I naively didn't think about the mattress as the cause. Living like that for 3 months I was planning my suicide. Life was unbearable. Thank god I accidently learned about the 5 Day Extended Patch Test which my derms or family practice doctor had never ever told me about. If you contact the mattress company they cannot tell you which elements are added in synthesizing the form.
Even if you don't have ACD and have not been tested positive for memory foam, toss it out now! Off gassing, not just direct contact, can over time lead to an allergic allergy.
Tempurpedic has multiple lawsuits against them for allergies to their foam we never are warned about. In fairness mine was an off brand I bought at Sam's, yet clearly it poisoned me.