Yeah, there is:
Posted on 03/07/2024 12:40:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
Medical experts preach about how water is good for your skin — but for one woman, it has the complete opposite effect.
Kimberlee Mills, who goes by @everydaywithkym on social media, revealed she’s allergic to water and how difficult it is to even take a shower. “It’s just one of the most uncomfortable experiences,” Mills confessed online.
In a one-minute TikTok clip posted on Feb.2, she explained her daily hygiene routine can be filled with agony due to her body’s aversion to water. “I was diagnosed with aquagenic urticaria, and basically what that means, whenever my skin gets in contact with any form water of water, including my own sweat … I get hives, it itches and burns, and there’s no cure,” the Houston, Texas, resident revealed.
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Yes, I thought it was real interesting when I learned it last summer.
Our water here in North Idaho is very high quality. It’s a blend of lake water (lots of snow melt flowing in) and water from the excellent Rathdrum Prairie aquifer. That aquifer has enormous amount of water flowing through it and it largely flows through a huge pebble-bed filter left behind by all the glaciers in the area 12,000 years ago.
50+% it’s higher the less fat you have.
Lots of people do not shower every day, especially in Europe...
I wonder if it is something in the water. Does she have this with distilled water?
Yeah, there is:
Does this only affect skin on the outside. What about tissue on the inside. It seems that an incompatibility with water would be an incompatibility with life.
See my reply #4.
I wondered that too, but it’s a skin condition so it isn’t affected by the blood and other liquids inside of her.
Dear Kimberlee Mills,
Come to Florida. On Alt 19 near Elfers there’s a spring called Wall’s spring.
If you immerse yourself in the water 7 times you will be cured.
I accept no payment.
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People with some autoimmune diseases are sometimes allergic to themselves.
I have a mild form of this, as does my daughter. It’s not a case of being allergic to water, but to sweat. A hot shower, exercise or sitting in the sun can cause a breakout of terrible hives, mostly on the back of the neck and upper arms. Scratching or even just touching them makes it much worse. Benadryl or other allergy meds can help, but then you feel like a zombie for hours!
Or apparently ever in the case of folk from India
“Is there ANY drama women cannot dream up?”
LOL, “First World Maladies” was also my first thought.
Maybe Singulair (or its generic) would be beneficial?
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