LS and Sauna

I think th hair dye has been linked to cancer at one stage, and I am sure it is one toxin the body can do without.

I am grey, got tired of putting a paintbrush in my hair.  Still have LS and a few other skin diseases.  But I seriously think that toxins may have a negative effect on LS or any auto immune disease for that matter.  

It is not recommended that LS patients go swim in a pool, or go in a hot tub. Due to the chemicals that would not be beneficial.  But a sauna would do the opposite - relieve the body.  

I'm wondering whether the sauna would have a positive and healing effect on LS.

Winifred, I really think anyone with skin problems is asking for trouble using hair dye. Both my sister and I have psoriasis and had to stop dyeing. Bad things happened on our scalps. In fact her whole head swelled up like a moon.

What other toxins do we need to shed?  Do you have experience with other infading items Morrell?

 

I used to worry a lot about mold when my psoriasis was bad, but now I don't think it was the culprit at all. I know our environment is full of poisons and that we boomers are the first generation to have lived with them for 100% of their lives. I'm not so quick as some to believe there are solutions to this or ways to somehow get these bad elements out. If you think of a vegetable in your garden being spotty or twisted, that's an accumulated result of complex factors. You may be able to learn how to grow a perfect broccoli next year, but a human life is long and this accumulated damage isn't simple to undo.

You've read my mind -  I was thinking, could a person 'sweat it out'?  

I know that eating healthy, or as I have to do, following a strict diet,  makes a difference to overal health.  If only we would know the culprit that causes LS.  

Drinking lots of healthy fluids helps.  Thinning the urine for sure.  Rinsing with baking soda may be more than disinfecting.  I know it does something with the pH balance.  Is there a connection?  

Thinning urine for sure. Changing the pH balance on the exterior, yes. Internal 'cleansing' – not convinced.

Morrell , l have decided after hearing all the advive on hair dyeing that l am going to embrace a new " grey/ white " look , it had to come one day ha !! It will be one less toxic thing in my body.

Great! Boomers are a huge chunk of the population. What we do quickly becomes the norm. I only dyed for a couple of years around age 40.

I won't use a public pool.  My fear for infection.  Sounds like you are in total control with your own pool.  Aren't you using any pool chemicals?

 

Hanny, Yes I use Chlorine, but the chap that cleans my pool seems to know what he is doing.  Also if you dont put enough Chlorine in than that can cause problems too..

I had a pool for a short while. I recall learning that the smell in poorly maintained public pools is not chlorine but chloramine, a biproduct of too much junk and not the right balance of chlorine. Bad for skin. A home pool is smaller, used much less and maintained more carefully.

I moved from NYC to Florida 7 years ago and the very first week I moved here, I started having urethritis very badly and had no idea what was causing it. Occasionally, I would have a sore vulva, redness, then the whiteness and fusing started. It took years to go to a gyno because I had no healthcare and thought the symptoms were just yeast infections. Now recently I found out that the water in my city is treated with Chloramine. I started washing myself with only bottled water and will see what happens.