Increasing issues with chemical sensitivity, options?

[busymama7]

Specifically to scents, like bath and body lotions etc. I get headaches and sometimes wheezing(I have asthma).  Sundays are the worst days and since my daughter is home from college and can't seem to remember to NOT put stuff on, it started even before church.    Is there anything I can do to manage being in groups better? Would a mask help?

[LarlaB]

I would preemptively take additional antihistamines the day before to see if that helps.... natural or OTC or both. 

[Pen]

It’s very difficult!

I am having troubles with a teen who wants to wear all sorts of fragrance products.  Having non fragranced alternatives available and boxing up the fragranced items might help.

A mask might help for going to church.  Also glasses as eyes seem to let a lot in, and skin and hair covered as much as possible.

I basically stopped going to church as it made me too sick too often. 

[PeterPan]

Lower your stress, work on your leaky gut (drop the sugar, eat raw garlic and cayenne every day). You can try turmeric for the asthma. 

Is your stress a lot higher right now?

[busymama7]

3 minutes ago, Pen said:

It’s very difficult!

I am having troubles with a teen who wants to wear all sorts of fragrance products.  Having non fragranced alternatives available and boxing up the fragranced items might help.

A mask might help for going to church.  Also glasses as eyes seem to let a lot in, and skin and hair covered as much as possible.

I basically stopped going to church as it made me too sick too often. 

She has other options.  Right there in the bathroom.  It conveniently always forgotten that I have issues.  I took my own car and sat down the pew from her on purpose but the lady right behind me had it on too and it carried.  Now I'm just laying down miserable.  Luckily not my lungs this time but a headache. 

[busymama7]

5 minutes ago, PeterPan said:

Lower your stress, work on your leaky gut (drop the sugar, eat raw garlic and cayenne every day). You can try turmeric for the asthma. 

Is your stress a lot higher right now?

Thank you.  I am eating sugar this month and had been off since June(and lost 35 lbs!!!).  

I mean stress is normal December stress for a mom of 9 kids, with 6 still at home who are musicians 😜.  I am ahead with Christmas arrangements though and only have cooking Christmas Eve dinner left though so feeling pretty good about that.  

[Pen]

1 minute ago, busymama7 said:

She has other options.  Right there in the bathroom.  It conveniently always forgotten that I have issues.  I took my own car and sat down the pew from her on purpose but the lady right behind me had it on too and it carried.  Now I'm just laying down miserable.  Luckily not my lungs this time but a headache. 

 

1) Have her Get her smelly stuff out of your house right now!  

Double or triple bagged so odor doesn’t leak out . Then either it can wait somewhere like garage for until she’s ready to return to college or be thrown out.  

And have daughter or othe fragrancy people put on clean non smelly clothes too if possible.

 

2) get all your clothes etc that have odor on them off and also bagged up.  I hope you didn’t transfer it to your bedding.  

Then go take a shower and try to get what you can off your hair and skin.  Then put on fragrance free clean clothes. 

3) If you can get some and can tolerate it, Goody’s headache relief powders in cool orange, that’s my best go to for headaches, but if you can take something else you have on hand like aspirin do that.   If you get nauseated along with headaches try some ginger if you have or can get some.  Maybe dd can go to a store for such things.

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[Pen]

4) while in shower try making the water hotter and colder which can change vasoconstriction / vasodilation and may help

epsom salts may help for the magnesium

5) I agree that dietary changes can help—but in my experience, not instantly.   And I agree on eliminating sugar.  For me garlic and cayenne are migraine triggers, so daily raw garlic and cayenne would be a problem. I think what helps an individual is individual.  However refined sugar is a pretty universal likely problem. 

(Btw,  I can tolerate a little garlic as a spice sometimes if I am careful with other things.   )  

Turmeric may be helpful generally, and you can get it as a curcumin supplement in capsules which is easier than making golden milk when not feeling well

6. Make sure you are very well hydrated

7. Some vitamin C may help.  I take extra vitamin C prior to expected “exposures”.  Antioxidants generally may help some. 

 

Edited December 22, 2019 by Pen