Rte66, have you ever seen this website? I read about your hands this morning and I’m so sorry. This is my favorite natural health website. It has thousands of testimonials from people who have or have not had success with certain remedies. You can click on search at the top of the page and type in anything you want to look up. The first testimonial is the latest post from yesterday and the second one is about a skin condition.
I hope you can find something inexpensive that will help you. Good luck.
http://www.earthclinic.com/latest_posts.html
BLADDER INFECTION REMEDIES
10/25/2007: Kay from Knoxville, TN writes: “I’m an RN and don’t have health insurance, go figure. But I did have a bladder infection that had been nagging me for 2 weeks. I knew I couldn’t afford a doctor visit and UA culture, so I’ve been guzzling cranberry juice (and borrowing antibiotics) with no success. Yesterday, it became unbearable and I found this website. I went through ALL the testimonies, made a list of what I needed from the store and spent less than $10 on everything I bought. First I drank ACV in water. I waited an hour and drank sea salt in water as prescribed here. I was already feeling immediate relief. Next, I took a bath in ACV, baking soda and sea salt. I ate a can of asparagus and drank the juice. By now, there is NO pain. For the rest of the evening, I drank cranberry juice diluted in filtered water. Drank more ACV and baking soda before bed. Slept through the night and awoke with absolutely no symptoms. Am going to stay on ACV and the baths for a couple of days, then do maintenance of one glass of ACV in water/day.
This truly works. I should have known there was a ‘natural’ cure. Eight years ago I was told I would only live a year if I didn’t undergo chemo/radiation for breast cancer. I refused and instead, I juiced myself into total remission. This bladder infection is the only “illness” I’ve had in 8 years and still didn’t need a doctor! Thank you for this website.”
5/19/2007: Janet (rik_kemp@hotmail.com) from Morayfield, Queensland writes: “I have suffered from skin ailments all my life. I had heard about coconut oil but it seemed too simple an idea to really work, and I had tried every remedy, scientific and natural, under the sun and nothing ever worked. So after reading all the latest hype about coconut oil I decided “why not?’ Well, sometimes I wish wasn’t such a sceptic and then I might have tried it years ago. How it works I don’t know but after less than a week of applying it twice a day my rash had cleared up, the redness and itching was gone, and has stayed gone despite the fact that I have stopped using my usual prescription anti-inflammatory cream. The kind I use is the extra virgin pure coconut oil made without chemical processes. I’m now taking it orally too.”
Thanks. I had seen the coconut oil one on a website a FReeper sent me a couple of weeks ago and had an “aha!” moment, because out of nowhere, I had begun craving coconut everything about the time this flared up again.
Had never made a coconut cream pie in my life, but looked up all kinds of recipes and found one I liked. I didn’t want to read about all the coconut oil things because I have a VERY limited amount of shopping I can do - two stores I have to walk to - and I have bad breathing problems and usually can’t make it that far.
I knew I’d never find coconut oil itself, but they also said to eat coconut products. Well, I’ve done that, but not enough to help, obviously.
I’ve always drunk ACV, just because I love vinegar - and I also have very vinegary salad dressings all the time, as well as pickled things. If ACV worked for this, I wouldn’t even have it.
So, thank you! Oh, that’s the same website I went to the other day. I have to try just one thing at a time, because I have to be able to tell whether that thing is working or not. I have so many allergies, it’s bad if I put something on my skin that is worse for me.
I got tickled at myself about the “boron” treatment thing. They swear that people take 20 Mule Team Borax (a tiny amt in lots of water) for all kinds of remedies. I looked for it at one of my two stores and they didn’t have any. Then I forgot to look at my grocery, which probably will have it - probably with Ronaldus Maximus Reaganus still on the box, lol. (It’s an old-fashioned kind of place.)
Then I saw that my multi-vitamin has boron in it, so I’m covered, lol. Anyway, thank you! I don’t know what I will try next. I had gotten a new lotion because all the sprays that I liked because I didn’t have to rub the rash had kind of stopped working.
Then I had th problem with the infection and the Neosporin ointment making it worse, or not stopping it. So, I used some hydrogen peroxide on it - a little late, because the bottle I had was way out of date, so I had to wait till I got a new one. Anyway, it hurt, but it helped a little.
I continued using my Domeboro, but it was defeating the purpose because it’s supposed to dry up the little blisters - but it dried my skin so badly that I had to go back to the ointment or lotion (only the hydrocortisone as a very last resort - and it only works maybe once and half times) to keep my skin soft and flexible.
The ice water still fixed the itehing for a while, but now all the blisters have run together in a couple of places and the skin is red and hard. The Aveeno anti-itch I put on it for a couple of days has calamine in it and it gets all over everything.
LOL, the other night I was beside myself because the itching is worst at night - will wake me up if I go to sleep and I’m a day-sleeper, anyway - but I had just put the lotion on and was about to pass out, I was so sleepy.
I can’t put gloves on this because it makes it all worse - unless I absolutely have to, to go out where I’ll have to touch germy stuff, just a little while - so I was so desperate, I got some socks and put them on my hands and went to sleep. LOL, it worked, anyway. But the Aveeno didn’t work on the itch after 2 days.
Right now, I’m back to ice water then Neosporin. I will have to sleep soon, but don’t mind if I get a little greasy ointment on stuff. Problem is that I have to wash everything I own by hand because of fragrance allergies to the apt laundry room. And hand-washing isn’t good for this.
Sorry to go on and on. Truly, I am.