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What is Grover's disease of the skin?
Skin Health | Last Active: Jan 15 9:36pm | Replies (165)Comment receiving replies
My first post here. Mayo diagnosed my GD a month ago. I think I've had it for about a year. Suspect it may have started after a bad exposure to boat bottom paint (copper, biocide, herbicide) when I lay on my back under the boat to sand and paint (in a spot where hundreds of boats had done the same). The itching is wicked, and can only be kept to a dull roar with Rx steroid cream X2 per day plus generic Sarna in between. I'm on day 12 of cilantro shakes and maybe its helping? I cruise in my little houseboat, sleeping in a hammock in the summer. I find when I'm sleeping in the hammock for a couple of nights the itching is dramatically reduced. My theory is that the hammock cools my back all night, as opposed to the heat build up from a mattress or armchair. Has anyone tried a hammock?
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Many of us with excema have several forms. I have GD but also Allergic Contact Dermatitis, ACD. You're assessment about the hammock allowing cooling to your back is probably the reason for your symtom reduction, but have you had the 5 Day Extended Patch Test for allergens? My eczema symtoms became exaserbated after I got a memory foam mattress. Patch test results showed an allergy to an element in memory foam. Memory foam is formulated with an element from rubber which is not used to process polyuethane foam. This element from rubber is also used to process blended materials like poly/cotton and other blended materials used in clothing and bedding. Also if your armchair is fabric, many are treated with the adhesives in Scotch Guard, wrinkle free elements or fire retardand. Many like myself are allergic to these treatments. Google this test. I'm not sure of your age, but Medicare pays for this expensive test (about $1,500). Best of luck with the cilantro, it helps many of us. I'm still clear of GD after using fresh and frozen cilantro.
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You can get an evaporative cooling pad for you bed. It cools water by evaporation and pumps the cool water through the pad. Works quite well.