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Re: Iodine Painting and skin reactions
 
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Re: Iodine Painting and skin reactions


You ask a good question. At least with respect to my recent incident, which can easily be described as including a skin-burning incident, I don't know for sure that there was any contribution from commercial chemicals.

The skin on my foot had already been having problems with an rash/itch condition for several months. It might be eczema, it might be dermatitis, at this point it seems to me somewht irrelevant what I call it since there does not seem to be much in the way of mainstream solutions for this conditions. It seems that mainstream came up with nice names to call these things, but otherwise do not know what they are caused by.....but we got some nice names out of them. To me, it seems important that I have a condition, some condition, no matter what it's called, I have it. I guess what I'm saying is that it would have been nice for orthodoxy to not stop after the effort of coming up with a name, but instead should have focused a bit more on what it is that causes the thing they have a name for..... I know, I don't ask for much, do i? ;)

In general, I do not use commercial skin products - no soaps, no moisturizers, no prescription meds, no over-the-counter meds/creams/loctions. At best, if there was a chemical reaction involved with my situation, it was not apparent. Prior to painting this foot (heavy painting) with Iodine, there was really only one... possibly two chances for there to be chemcials present: 1) through the herbal salve I had been using. This salve had been doing nothing to heal the condition BUT was the only thing I had found for itch relief. Best I know, all the ingredients are natural, but then again, I did buy it at a store, an amish store at that, but it may contain some unnatural ingredients/chemcials; 2) it is possible that there was one or more chemicals on my foot's skin by virtue of having come out of my own body - like through the pores via elimination. I tend to favor this idea since the overall condition may itself be a visible manifestation of the body internally venting a problem or toxin through the skin.

Bottom line as I see it, externally applied Iodine does tend to cause skin that's already diseased to dry - peel - crack....basically, shed so that new skin can grow in behind it. In my case, I just happened to over do the use of Iodine, by a wide margin, and paid the price. Coincidentally, a similar topic was arose about the same time 10 days ago on the debate forum that suggested Iodine is burning/harming all skin externally and internally (IE> internal skin/flesh of organs). To me this seemed more based on fear/concern/emotions and less on actual self experience or facts. Out of curiosity, I painted a new section of skin that was healthy as far as I knew (on the other foot). Afterards, this test area did not show any of the similar reactions that the diseased skin had. In the latter, the drying/cracking/flaking/peeling/shedding began within hours of the first painting. With the former (test area), no such signs showed after 24 hours, nor 48 hours, nor any hours. This test area did not peel, flake, dry, crack or shed. Basically, it did not seem to react in any outward/visible way that I could see. This is not proof, but it is a little snippet of real-life evidence that suggests Iodine does not harm skin that is already healthy. As to the original foot problem, this is not proof but is a bigger snippet of real-life fact that Iodine does cause diseased skin to shed and be replaced with new skin. This is also a pretty healthy-snippet of evidence of what happens if use of external Iodine is overdone; live and learn.

My foot has now gone full circle. After over doing the Iodine treatment, it then took me the better part of the last 10 days correcting for having over done it, and this after having received lots of support from folks on the support forum....novel concept, eh? :) After over doing it, several complications arose as a result - swelling, discomfort, became confined to the couch, etire surface of foot & ankle oozing/draining (and probably infection too). That's the bad news of this. Some additional good news is that I've now learned first hand a way to successfully treat a swelling/oozing/draining/festering wound with, of all things, powdered bark from the Slippery Elm tree made into a poultice - and the same doubles as nutritious food that can be eaten/swollowed !

Bottom line, the original condition - itchy rash, is still prevalent. To some this might be summarized as - wasted effort that went no where. To me it constitutes a lot of effort that did not go anywhere to help the original condition but I learned several valuable pieces of information along the way to now be a part of my self-armed, self-informed home-made homeopathic medicine kit.

 

 
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