Could sunflower oil cause inflamation?

Hi Celia, thank you for your reply, I havn't heard of rapeseed oil, I will investigate that. Yes I do use olive oil for cooking.

I do agree with you about the resting, I do still push myself to get everything done. Definitly a habit I need to break. Maybe not the sunflower oil. Thanks again. Hope you are doing well

All the best to you, stay positive too!

Thanks a lot Eileen, I have been rushing a little too often, a behavior that was normal for me and hard to stop, yes maybe it's that.

Your comment about the study found indicates that sunflower oil is good because of improving lipid profiles is worth investigating as I have no idea what lipid profiles are, but am sure to look them up

I will go and read the study Michdonn found.

Thanks again! hope you are doing well

Yup - slow down, you move too fast! It all adds up...

Awesome information, will only use olive oil. Here in N.Z we can buy coconut oil which has a higher smoking point than olive oil. maybe you can get that where you are too. But I will use olive oil, that's safe.

Thanks heaps. Anhaga

In the last year or so, the benefits of rapeseed oil have been the main reasons for my changing? Plus the fact it has much higher burning point than olive oil.

The health benefits of Rapeseed Oil

Contains the lowest saturated fat content of any oil – less than half that of Olive Oil.It's a great source of Omega 3,6,9 with10 times more Omega 3 than Olive Oil.It is a good source of antioxidant Vitamin E.High in monounsaturated fats.

And there is more ....!

Be that as it may, omega 3 from fish or algae is better than from any plant source, like flaxseed or canola.  My personal opinion, and that's all it is but nothing I've read convinces me to change my mind, is that canola/rapeseed is the beneficiary of excellent marketing.  Fortunately it's not an unhealthy oil as far as we know.  

I do sometimes use coconut oil, as a substitute for butter rather than for any other fat.  I quite like it, but I'd say the oil we use most is olive oil because we eat a lot of salad and I always put olive oil on salads.  

It is so confusing isn't it. I looked up cooking oils last night and still don't know. Some say coconut oil is good and some as you say it raises bad cholestrol. The one that stands oul except it dosn;t have a high smoking point is olive oil.

You can use manuka honey for wound healing. And olive oil as a moisturizer.

"except it dosn;t have a high smoking point is olive oil."

Doesn't bother the Italians who still seem to live a very long time!

It is unfiltered olive oil that is the biggest problem, the residues tend to catch and smoke. High grade, low acidity oils are less likely to smoke.

This is a good explanation - and how to use olive oil best. In the domestic kitchen you generally cook at temperatures below 200C/400F, the smoke point for olive oil is about 410F and above depending on the oil, they differ. And if you don't walk away and leave your frying pan you can avoid overheating it. 

https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/whats-cooking-with-olive-oil/olive-oil-smoke-point/656

Wiki says

"The correct frying temperature depends on the thickness and type of food, but in most cases it lies between 350–375 °F (177–191 °C). An informal test for a temperature close to this range involves adding a tiny amount of flour into the oil and watching to see if it sizzles without immediately burning. A second test involves adding one piece of food to deep fry and watching it sink somewhat and rise back up"

A far more accurate (and safer way) to deep fry is what I do:  use an electric fryer.  I never set it above about 180C and get perfect chips - not that I use olive oil mind you! So still well under the smoke point for olive oil.

Nice one Eileen, this is helpful.

I have never liked coking and don't like standing in front of the stove, I have a cast iron pan, and have it on a very low temp while frying so I go and sit at the computer while frying.

Absolutly no chance of anything smoking.

Oh Iv'e never heard of medhoney, it sounds good, as I was thinking about the stickiness of honey.

I am glad that works for you. Iv'e not heard of those dressings either, it must be the coloidial silver, probably spelt that wrong, I wonder if you could put a few drops onto an ordinary dressing.

I can buy h**p oil at health food stores and my farmer's market.  It's made from the seeds not the leaves unlike the versions which are specifically now being used for medical purposes.  i don't use it in cooking.  I take a tbsp every morning, should probably take twice that, but I never remember.  And I use it as needed on my skin.  It cleared up and has helped to keep at bay a tendency I have to develop rough reddish patches of skin, which I think are allergy related, or maybe part of whatever made me get PMR.  I used cortisone ointment on my hands some years ago and found as soon as I stopped it would come back worse than ever, and have spread.  So it was really important to me to figure out how to wean myself off the cortisone.  This was I later learned a dress rehearsal for weaning off prednsone!  Anyway I tried everything finally hitting on a cream at the pharmacy called Impruv, which happens to contain shea butter among its ingredients.  A naturopath I was consulting at the time thought this might be the ingredient which was helping me so she suggested I get shea butter from the pharmacy, with nothing else in it.  They use it when making up their own compounds.  I did this.  It's a bit odd, you  have to let it kind of warm up on your skin before you can rub it in.  But it is fine for use at night time.  I still use the Impruv.  The first bottle of h**p oil was given to me by an aromatherapy store where they'd been given a bottle to try as a carrying agent, but decided it wouldn't work for them and the aromatherapist knew of my troubles and suggested I give it a try..  This was the substance which cleared up the condition on my hands, and I've barely had a problem since.  It's been years now.  

I suggest it's been a number of factors which have worked together to keep this condition in check.  I do know when I was higher doses of pred I had no sign whatever of itchy skin, which I guess was something I'd lived with for so long I barely noticed it.  But I did notice when it was gone.  It has returned a bit with low doses of pred, so there may be something in my system which reacts to something in the environment.

http://outside-us.dermasciences.com/about

In 2013 there was this press release: "Derma Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSCI), a medical device and pharmaceutical company focused on advanced wound care, today reported that it has made an initial shipment of its first honey-based over-the-counter (OTC) product to a leading U.S.-based pharmacy chain. This private-label dressing is based on the MEDIHONEY HCS dressing, which is an ideal dressing for dry to lightly exuding wounds including minor burns, cuts and abrasions. The dressing is expected to be on the shelves in more than 4,000 stores by the end of September."

Medihoney products are listed on Amazon UK

I asked about this honey for my latest wound and he gave the OK. The wound healed well with no signs of infection. I applied the honey with a sterile applicator to the wound or directly to the dressing. The original tube of honey must be kept sterile as there are no preservatives. 

I read about medihoney and equivalents in surgical journals.

Not sure if you can get that in N.Z as it is illegal, even medicinal.

I have purple marks on my skin, they are not like ordinary bruises, but they are a result of a bump, it doesn't seem to take much of a knock to get one.

I will be able to get the shea butter and will use that.

Thank you for your help. I am glad you have found something which has helped with your itchy skin.

Oh it's Manuka honey, yes I have got that, I use it in tea instead of sugar.

We in N.Z don't know it as medi honey.

Thanks for that, it's nice to have a natural product even if it is sticky

In UK we normally buy it as Manuka honey, I use it with yogurt. Medihoney is just the name given to a medicinal form in a tube by the manufacturer. 

It shouldn't be illegal.  It has nothing to do with the drug at all.  The seeds are used in breakfast cereals for example.  The medicinal substances of which you speak are in the leaves, and probably not even present in any amount in the leaves of the strains which provide the edible seeds and seed oil.  This has been a very useful plant in many ways over the centuries, sustainably providing fibre for clothing and sacking for example.  The Acadian settlers in Nova Scotia were actually required to plant it.  It's a great pity this plant has been demonized.     

Thanks