How many of us, when we are out, have to use the public restroom? How many of us prefer that people wash their hands when they have had to use the restroom? All of us, right! Yes! Most emphatically. To think otherwise, well, let's just not go there.....but for some of us even washing our hands creates a problem. I have finally made a connection between using the soap at a public restroom and a scalding, burn rash thingie that happens to my hands.
I was lamenting over my hands to my husband. They were hurting, cracked and bleeding. It literally feels like I have scalded my hands. So I get asked the usual question, "what did you eat?" Nothing...nothing that is that I haven't already been eating and seemingly had no reaction. If you talk with people who have these kinds of health problems, you find out just how hard this can be. That is figuring out what you might be reacting to or not. You log and log, you track, you check the ingredient of every thing that passes your lips. What really makes it hard is they lie about their ingredients. I was so happy when I found out one of the things that causes a major pain in my life.
I finally made a connection between the only thing different was I had gone out of the house, had to go to the restroom and being the 'clean' person I am, washed my hands after using the restoom. Within an hour's time, I had this scalded feeling, very dry, cracking skin on my hands. Okay, we might need to kill germs but this seems overkill or is it the chemicals? I don't know, I'm not a degreed, smart person, but I have learned to carry my own soap with me and use it. You should see the rolling eyeball looks I get; but scalded hands or rolling eyeball looks - which would you choose? Oh yeah, this also happens when I use some brands of flour - it results in my hands drying out, cracking open, and basically, an alligator has smoother skin than I do.
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