Child Safety Laws

To yoshi,

What’s wrong with drinking milk? They shouldn’t drink juice as their main drink.

Thanks, Yoshi. pat pat (I am now patting myself on the back for my spot-on guess!)

And I agree with you whole-heartedly regarding your opinion on fruits, vegetables, and exercise.

To yoshi,

I never said it’s bad to give juice. Also, it seems that the companies are trying to capitalize on this new trend of no milk to kids by adding calcium to juices. Also, true milk allergy isn’t that common.

To NYmom,

I personally didn’t do a study on milk allergy, but I wouldn’t call experience as a mother a study either. The medical literature says Milk allergy in infants and young children is about 2% -I don’t call this common. Also, older children & adults it’s <1%.

Yoshi – I have TERRIBLE eczema on my hands and I went to 3 dermatologists and one allergist, plus went GFCF (gluten and milchig free) for a while and it didn’t help. I got the basic allergy testing done also and nothing came up. Most creams didn’t even make an impact. Should I try for the testing – I don’t know exactly what it’s called – that tests for a lot of stuff?

For the record – my neighbor’s sister was having horrible allergic reactions (she always had bad allergies, but this was dangerous) and she found out that she’s allergic to the main ingredient in the health products that she uses.

To plonis,

How do you know it’s an allergy?

Yoshi – I’m going to politely disagree. I don’t think it’s Dyshidrotic. I don’t have blisters – it’s just like a rash, just really itchy and coarse and sometimes (like now) my skin cracks. Again, like I said, I’ve been to 3 dermatologists and an allergist. And I’ve tried about EVERY cream in the book. I’ve had eczema ever since I can remember (first on my elbows, and now on my hand), and my mother tried everything for me – including oatmeal baths. And aquaphor is like child’s play compared to some of the creams I’ve tried.

It’s not a chemical I’m touching – like I said, I’ve had it for years. Allergies are in the family. More than half my family has eczema, but most of them know what it’s from. Mine is just an enigma.

NY Mom – thanks! My mother said she’ll call my neighbor’s sister and ask her if she thinks it would be good for me and ask her more info about it.

Health – what’s that supposed to mean?

Thank you all for all the great info!!!

Just as a follow up to one of my previous posts. My daughter had a well visit today and I asked my pediatrician about booster seats vs. car seats- He told me she should not go into a booster until she is 4 yrs. old and 40 lbs. even for short rides in someone else’s car.

To plonis,

Why must you answer a question with a question? Describe the rash, when it started, what makes it worse/ better. Do you wash dishes? How often do you shower? How hot is the water? What kind of detergent, soap, shampoo, do you use? What part of the hand/s is it? What meds/creams have you tried? How long have you had it? Does it come and go or is it constant? Any other symptoms on your body, not just rashes, anything? If you answer this I will try and figure out what is going on.

It is imperative that a child be properly secured, even when making the “smallest” of trips.

Agreed. That’s the rule in my car. If a child (of any age) is not secured, we don’t move.

The Wolf

Yoshi – I think they told me that it’s eczema and not an allergy. I don’t really remember, because I’ve had it on my hand for almost 6 years already. No one knows what it might come from.

I wouldn’t say that they didn’t give me a proper diagnosis or treatment. Just that everything we tried (including topical steroids, probiotic powder…….) didn’t work.

Health – I’m sorry for offending you. I just didn’t understand exactly how you wanted me to answer. Okay, so now that the whole CR’s gonna know my personal hygiene and daily habits…. My rash (which IS eczema, by the way, or you’re telling me that 3 dermatologists, an allergist, and two pediatric physicians are wrong) is pink and inflamed, the skin is broken and scratchy to the touch, and at times I develop cuts that don’t go away for a while. These cuts usually appear on the first third of my finger – above the first joint, but I have had on other parts of the finger also. I have it on one hand, in the palm of my hand (besides for a little circle of clear skin in middle) and on the insides of my fingers. Some of my fingers have it on the outside also, but only on the top third – before the first joint. Sometimes my fingers get very swollen (usually when I have a cut, but sometimes just “randomly”), and I can’t bend them a lot or straighten them. Most of the time when they’re very swollen they throb a lot, and only raising them fingers-up above my heart lessens the throbbing a drop. In addition, my nails on that hand grow differently than on my other hand (rounder right over my finger, and the part that grows out – off my finger bends down instead of growing straight out), and I have no cuticles.

In general, I do not wash dishes. (I managed to get out of that one – with approval of the doctor. 😉 ) I shower 4 times a week. The water probably is a little too hot, but I’ve been trying to keep it cooler. I think that’s the worst of my problems, though. I use Dove unscented soap, and head and shoulders shampoo. I used T-Gel at one point, but it didn’t help. We use Melaleuca detergent, and everything else makes my eczema even worse – including Tide Free.

Like I said before, it’s on my palm and inside of my fingers and a little bit outside on one hand, and a little bit on the wrist and bottom of my thumb bone (not the thumb itself) on the other hand.

I’ve tried practically every cream on the market (except for the new ones that came out since last September) including topical steroids, and probiotic ointment. I’ve also been on medicine (probably steroids or antibiotics) for very short periods of time (like a week maybe) to reduce the swelling. In addition, I’ve been on Dr. Rosenthal’s (I don’t know if you know who he is) GFCF diet and it didn’t help.

I’ve had it on my hand since the winter of ’04, and it’s been there constantly except for the summer of ’08 – I was in camp for two weeks and it got almost better, but then came back full force when I went back home. And also this past year I was in seminary in E”Y, and in the beginning I still had the eczema, at some points REALLY badly, but during the last few months of the year it disappeared COMPLETELY and then came back a drop. When I came back home in June, it came back.

Any other symptoms? Like what? I don’t have rashes anywhere else, but when I was younger, I had eczema on my elbows.

I think I covered everything you asked.

Smile_its_EZ and Yoshi – thanks for the tip, I’ll ask my mother about those creams.

plonisalmonis: It sounds like you might be allergic to something in your house. You leave for an extended period and it gets better. You come home and it comes back. If I were you I would do muscle resistance testing with everyting in the house, and every place else you frequent in the neighborhood.

Plonis

My son has excema. I took him to the best dermotalogist in mexico. He told me never to use polyester, no hot baths, only showers that aren’t so hot, not to run him dry, only pat him dry with the towel. He then sent me elidel and aderma exomega every day, twice a day.

Hope that helps.

anon: Muscle resistance testing is a way to determine sensitivities to various substances. You can do it to yourself, but it’s easier to have someone do it to you. This sounds strange, but it really works.

Lie down and extend your left arm so that your left hand is toward the ceiling. Have someone try to push down your arm while you try to resist. Most likely you will be able to resist their push. If not, you have some deficiency and need to fix that. Try drinking some water. It could be you’re dehydrated.

Anyway, once you are able to resist, hold a suspected item in your right hand, and repeat the procedure. If the item (for example an egg) is something you are sensitive or allergic to, you will not be able to resist the push on your arm. The person will have NO trouble whatsoever pushing your arm down. If you are not sensitive to that item, you will be able to resist as you were before.

In between items rub your hands together several times to that any energy that was transferred to your hands is wiped away.

Again, I realize this sounds strange, and those practitioners of allopathic medicine will tell you it’s baloney, but it really does work.

There is no scientific or objective study to support for resistance testing.

To plonisalmonis,

I love the way everybody in the CR is a medical expert, even though most of them didn’t go to Health Science’s school. And yes, all those doctors are probably wrong. (And I’m just a student.) I can’t say for sure what it is without testing, but I think you have Tinea Manuum, which is a fungus. This is commonly misdiagnosed. The treatment for this is Loprox lotion for about a month. This might not work because the rash is long standing. If it doesn’t work you will need to take oral anti-fungal meds such as Sporanox.

ny mom.safety on torah island is uncle moishe, my nephews love it..

So to get ourselves back on topic, I’d like to mention the following as winter comes creeping in and everyone is turning on their heating systems. Carbon monoxide (CO) is produced whenever any fuel such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood, or charcoal is burned.

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a silent but deadly danger.

Every home should have Carbon Monoxide Detectors. They are widely available in stores and you may want to consider buying one.

Hope everyone has a healthy and safe winter!

(Based on info from the US EPA)

After doing some checking (which I should have done before posting), I was confusing CO and CO2 – it is best to put the CO detector higher since CO is usually found in warmer air.

haifagirl – I don’t think so. What about all the other summers that I went to camp? Nothing happened then. I was in camp one year for 2 months, and it didn’t go away, but when i was in camp for 2 weeks it went away? Sounds funny. Also, it didn’t go away immediately after I got to E”Y, it took until at least after the winter for it to disappear. But thanks anyway!

haifagirl, I did google as you suggested but could not find any references to controlled studies proving the effectiveness of muscle resistance testing. Surely such a “miraculous” diagnostic tool would withstand that sort of scrutiny, so please point me to any studies that exist.

To mybat,

She doesn’t have excema! She can bathe, wash, shower with anything and for as long and many times and as hot as she wants.