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Does anyone have sensitivities?

DaughteroftheKing

Especially I'm wondering about sensitivities and allegric reactions to food dye/additives. 

I wondered if that might be why medication can be a bit or an issue.

I'm thinking I do to allura red and titanium dioxide = maybe others. I'm on a lot of meds for health issues so it's a real concern

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  • Loads of them, the skin on my face is so sensitive I react to baby lotion,  I have to be very careful what clothes I buy, lots of things make me really itchy. I have IBS, or so I'm told, my diet is quite the balancing act as it gets easily upset and the *ahem* consequences can go either way. I'm  extremely sensitive to gluten, not going for a Coeliac diagnosis as I'm not prepared to put my body through eating gluten again. I also have hay-fever and asthma.

    I think that a lot of my sensitivities are either caused by or exacerbated by stress....yet to get on top of that one.

  • in reply to Millicent_Bystander

    I find baby lotion and oils upset my skin too, I thinkthis is because they contain mineral oil rather than vegetable ones and are probably loaded with PEG's too.

    I find washing new clothes before wearing them helps, as they will have been treated with stuff to stop moths and things getting in them

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I find washing new clothes before wearing them helps, as they will have been treated with stuff to stop moths and things getting in them

    I used to buy fabrics by the roll when my wife had a fashion business and I was helping in the manufacturing process by pattern making, cutting, overlocking the pieces.

    Through this you get to see that a lot of companies leave a lot of the chemicals in the fabrics from the dying / manufacturing processes as it costs them every time they wash the material, so a newly made garment will most likely still have lots of nasty checmical still present.

    I got to visit a few of the manufacturing plants for fabric as I'm a bit of an engineering nerd and the amount of chemicals used in the dying process is scary.

    I remember often having quite sore hands from so much handling of the raw fabric at the end of the day and I do not normally have sensitive skin.

    Also from visiting factories where garments are manufactured, the hygiene levels where the material and garments are stored and handled leaves a lot to be desired in many cases, especially (but not exclusively) for the cheaper items.

    Always wash something new before using if you have sensitive skin..