How unfortunate! How poor my baby was but he is okay now thanks God. It started with just an unknown plant. My son loves flowers and garden. One day they went to his big brother school for an event. When he came home I saw few rashes on his face and he was scratching it. We thought it was just nothing until that day had passed. Oh dear when we woke up the following morning, we saw his right eye swollen and his right check so red. It looks so bad but he was feeling alright. He even still want to go to school. We suspected the food we ate during the weekend like crab meat and dried mangoes. It was the first time he ate those food. I set an appointment to the GP for the following day just to know what was it because it really bothered our thoughts. You know parents how it feels to see your child in such situation?
The GP said he got allergy from a certain plant. We need to find out what was it so that we can avoid it next time. The GP prescribed for him Sigmacort ointment for the rashes and Phenergan syrup for the itchiness. The syrup made him really sleepy and the ointment helps him a lot. With just few days it was all gone.
My husband remembered that our son bumped into a plant full of white bunch of flowers on the way to school. I saw that flowers but in my mind it’s not the plant who caused our son such thing. I think it was insect or bug laying in there or maybe some tiny caterpillars got him stung! I know how it feels to be stung by caterpillars.

I never had hay-fever before but how come after such longs years now it’s bugging me? Is the mixture of Australia grass can cause hayfever? I never imagine myself will use nasal spray for very itchy nose and eye drops for red eyes. It even gives me bad headache. Oh dear I was once had very bad skin allergy that almost ruined my skin. Thanks goodness I was able to get rid of it with the help of Periactin. It was good medicine but very sedated. It was making me sleep whole day. Until now I have some tiny scars because of those skin allergies. Luckily it wasn’t really bad. I was so depressed what will happened to my skin. I’m hoping and praying it won’t happen to me again.

A revolutionary new chocolate bar that reduces acne is set to hit Australian shelves.
Manufacturers of the Acne Care range say pimple-plagued sufferers will experience dramatic results within just two weeks of eating the chocolate.
Developed by US-based Frutels, the chocolate-coated treatment is believed to be the first of its kind.
Packed with antioxidants and micro-nutrients, the bars support the body’s defenses and clarify the skin from within, it is claimed.
Frutels recommend consumers eat between two and five chocolate bars a day for the fastest results.
Company figures reveal 73 per cent of people surveyed observed and improvement in their skin after taking just two bars per day for two weeks.
A company spokesman said: “This product takes beauty foods to another level by not only tackling acne in an ingestible form, but by using a food that has been associated with causing acne to make these claims.
“Chocolate has long been taboo for acne sufferers.”
The bars have swept the UK and US, prompting to move to the Australian market.
The bars cost about $40 for a months supply.

Moisturizers used by millions of people every day may raise the risk and severity of skin cancer in those who were heavily exposed to sun as youngster.
A new study has found evidence that some skin creams accelerate the growth of the most common form of skin cancer – and increase the number and size of tumors.
In the tests, four products – Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin and Vanicream – were applied over four months to mice who had been exposed to UV light.
A dramatic increase was noted in the growth of skin cancers. The cancers were not melanoma, the deadliest kind.
Australian disease experts said the study was inconclusive.

So what do you think with the study? All I can say is that, if you keep on using moisturizer, just avoid prolong staying under the sun. And if your work required prolong exposure to UV rays, better to stop using moisturizer. It is absolutely better to have dry skin than to have cancer. Prevention is better than cure.

I know what you’re thinking, but don’t pull out the cayenne just yet. Herpes Zoster and chickenpox have the same “mother virus”
If you’ve had chickenpox, you can expect the virus to just be waiting there inside of you, lingering.
And if the timing and conditions are just right, they will resurface (like stalking exes) and it comes out as the shingles–an extremely uncomfortable, if not, painful rash that breaks out. If you have it, you can make yourself much more comfortable by cutting open a fresh pepper and applying it in the affected area. The Capsicum in the peppers is said to works on the rash and relieves temporary pain. If you don’t feel like rubbing on a hot peppers. then you can buy cream that contain Capsicum.

Warts are produced by a virus and generally occur on hands or feet, on the sole of one’s feet, and on the face mainly in children.
Symptoms:
Definite formation on the skin of a gray or dark brown color, approximately 6 millimeters in size with a rough surface.
Causes: Contagious contact with other people.
Suggested treatment:
They generally disappear by themselves within 12 months. Different substances and techniques are used to eliminate these warts such as:
Applying a small amount of silver nitrate on the area, surgery, freezing with nitrogen, etc.
A technique that has given good results is the use of Aloe Vera extract mixed with gelatin or bee propolis with aloe Vera, applied on the wart and covered with a cloth so it won’t spread.
The application and taking of large quantities of vitamin E gives excellent results.

Vitiligo is a disease produced by a lack of pigment in the skin in certain parts of the body. It is not contagious. There is another similar disease which is called “mal del pinto” and occurs only 2% or 3% of the cases due to an infection. It exists in the southern part of Mexico.
Vitiligo symptoms are:

The first step to treating winter skin ailments and dryness is to determine your skin type so you can find the best products for you.

Australia is a dry, inhospitable continent, so it is important to combat the effect of arid air on the skin.
When the rain is pouring down, it is easy to forget the effects of dryness on our skin. But indoor heating, winter elements and the extra layers of clothing and bedding can all cause skin to dry out.
You should alter your skin routine to deal with the winter weather. You may need to replace your regular moisturiser with more nourishing cream or use a weekly moisturising mask.
Other tips to remember:

Every day, our skin is damaged by UV rays, pollution, bad diet, and the stressful lifestyle of being a working mom (when was the last time you had a full night’s sleep?). When we were a teenager, the skin could magically erase the signs because it could quickly replace the damage cells. Not anymore. As we grow older:
The inner layer (the dermis) starts to thin and become more vulnerable to damage. It takes longer for the skin to produce new cells. Skin looks dull. Your oil glands atrophy, so your skin loses its protective water-lipid layer. It can’t retain moisture, and becomes dry and scaly. The elastin and collagen fibres that provide scaffolding for your surface skin starts to loosen and unravel. Skin loses its elasticity, and starts to sag and furrow, and develops the dreaded wrinkles. The skin starts to pigment, which is worsened by exposure to UV rays. This leads to “age spots” and discoloured skin. A working mom’s lifestyle doesn’t help. Air pollution depletes your skin’s Vitamin E. Crash diets lower the fat cells in your face, causing it to sag. Smoking increases the enzymes that are responsible for wrinkles. Throw in the inevitable like gravity (which causes jowls and dropping eyelids) and UV rays (which break down skin cycles) and you may even look older that you really are.
According to the recent study, using cream products that contains CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) can help fix your skin from the genetic level because it works directly on the skin DNA to prolonged aging.
CLA is naturally occurring fatty acid found in red meat, milk and cheese, and butterfat (but you can’t get the same effects by ingesting it–unless you’re willing to eat your weight in cheddar).
CLA is said to be the world’s next new “wonder compound.” It’s been used to control weight (though it does prevent doesn’t shrink fat cells, it does prevent them from getting bigger), manage diabetes, and even stunt the growth of tumours.