Re: Skin peeling off palms??

[Guest guest]

I used to do gymnastics. Gymnasts routinely peel large chunks of skin off their

palms from doing bar exercises. You can get the same effect playing on play

ground equipment (like monkey bars or similar) -- doing the same types of things

which cause friction on the palms, over and over and over. Especially if you

have never done it before and have no callouses, the first peel can be quite

bad. I am having difficulty figuring out what part of his palm you mean. The

worst peeling for gymnasts is typically across the fleshy area at the base of of

the fingers. It isn't unusual to wind up peeling so bad you bleed -- especially

if you do develop callouses and manage to rip them off. (Chalk and gloves can

help reduce the problem for gymnasts -- but putting chalk into already open

sores is not a good thing to do, sigh.)

I also have a scar in one eyebrow from hitting my head on the monkeybars as a

little girl. The hair never grew back. My mom always said I should have been a

boy. :-P

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[Guest guest]

Are you chelating?

Barb

[ ] Skin peeling off palms??

>I got a note home today that my son was sent to the nurse. They send them

> for the stupidest things. He was " peeling skin from an old blister, excess

> skin

> trimmed, area cleaned, returned to class. "

>

> First off he didn't have a blister last time I looked at his hands so how

> old could it be? Second, I look at his hands and it had to be some big

> " blister "

> because the whole fatty area from under his 4 fingers to the middle of his

> palm had a circle around it from where you can tell the old skin had come

> off

> and there is bright pink skin left.

>

> I would have noticed that this morning when we got ready for school. Skin

> doesn't just spontaneously up and peel. But I could have missed it. Can

> this be

> related to too much or too little of anything??

>

> I wouldn't be surprised if between this and the fact that is covered

> from head to toe in cuts and bruises constantly if they don't call CPS on

> me. My

> son is rough and tumble all boy and quite clumsy like his dad. There are

> marks on him I can't even figure out how he got other than knowing he

> fell, jump

> or slid off something 10 times yesterday.

>

> Any suggestions on the peeling palms would be appreciated.

>

> Kerrie

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Ouch.

For what it's worth, I have been known to peel away layers of skin from

both of my thumbs. It usually seems to start with a dry or cracking cuticle

(any loose skin drives me nuts). I'll pick off the loose dry part and then

a bit more just for good measure. Ick. Very bizarre behavior, I am aware of

this... If I'm stressed out I seem to do a bit more of this, to the point

sometimes that whole areas all down the side of my thumb would get red and

raw (that was when I was working for the boss from hell, many years ago).

In my case the B6 mega dosing seems to help quite a bit. I have noticed

that when I cut back on the B6 (for instance there've been times I've gone

away for the day or a few days and forgotten it, or I've run low and

neglected to order), the problem gets worse. With the B6, if I'm

conscientious, I have very little problem at all. I use Kirkman's SNT

(eleven caplets a day which for my body weight of 115 lb is quite a lot),

but I guess any B6 is fine altho it's my understanding that if you megadose

B6 you want to supplement with large doses of the other B vitamins, as

well, or there can problems.

I've recently begun chelating with oral DMSA, and what with all of the

other supplements I've started, I decided I would cut back on the B6. (It's

just that the jar of pills was getting to look kind of, um, prodigious...)

Ack, bad mistake. I upped the amount of B6 back up again cause I was at it

again, chewing on my thumbs.

> >I got a note home today that my son was sent to the nurse. They send them

> > for the stupidest things. He was " peeling skin from an old blister, excess

> > skin

> > trimmed, area cleaned, returned to class. "

> >

> > First off he didn't have a blister last time I looked at his hands so how

> > old could it be? Second, I look at his hands and it had to be some big

> > " blister "

> > because the whole fatty area from under his 4 fingers to the middle of his

> > palm had a circle around it from where you can tell the old skin had come

> > off

> > and there is bright pink skin left.

> >

> > I would have noticed that this morning when we got ready for school. Skin

> > doesn't just spontaneously up and peel. But I could have missed it. Can

> > this be

> > related to too much or too little of anything??

> >

> > I wouldn't be surprised if between this and the fact that is covered

> > from head to toe in cuts and bruises constantly if they don't call CPS on

> > me. My

> > son is rough and tumble all boy and quite clumsy like his dad. There are

> > marks on him I can't even figure out how he got other than knowing he

> > fell, jump

> > or slid off something 10 times yesterday.

> >

> > Any suggestions on the peeling palms would be appreciated.

> >

> > Kerrie

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

This is what many of the acrodynia babies did. They would rub or chew

their hands and feet so much, the skin would come off. See excerpt below

from the case report of Thiele, founder of Pink Disease Support

Group in Australia.

Robin Nemeth wrote:

>Ouch.

>

>For what it's worth, I have been known to peel away layers of skin from

>both of my thumbs.

>

From " ’s story and the story of the Pink Disease Support Group "

[describing period when she " got " pink disease after receiving teething

powder with mercury]

Immediately, I became lethargic, sensitive to noise, light and touch,

lost my appetite and consequently lost weight alarmingly. My mother

carried me on a pillow, because I would scream if she touched me. She

put blankets at the windows and would only take me outside at night. I

lost muscle tone and I found it hard to hold my head up or sit, and

although I was on the verge of walking, I became like a floppy doll. The

skin on the soles of my feet and palms of my hands became bright pink

and began to peel off. I started to chew at my hands, so my mother made

me cotton mittens to cover them. I could not tolerate anything woolen or

rough in my clothing. My mother started dressing me in my older

brother’s bigger shirts used as “nightgowns”, so that my fitted clothes

did not irritate me. I would scream if placed in a bath, so my mother

started “washing” me with olive oil and cotton wool. I would rock myself

from side to side in my pram or cot, and bashed my head against the

walls. Nothing seemed to pacify me, and I would go for days without

sleep. My mother says my cry was more like the whimper of a frightened

animal, and could last for periods of 24 hours or more, without a break.

My hands turned “puffy” and it was this edema, along with the

photophobia and pink extremities, that the doctor used to diagnose the

condition as “pink disease”. He said the symptoms were too classic and

dramatic to suggest any other diagnosis. The medical professionals of

the time knew a name for this condition (medical term being acrodynia),

but did not know the cause or treatment.

[Guest guest]

>>Second, I look at his hands and it had to be some big " blister "

> because the whole fatty area from under his 4 fingers to the middle

of his

> palm had a circle around it from where you can tell the old skin

had come off

> and there is bright pink skin left.

This was viral die off for my kids and also I have the beginnings of

it on my own hands from my own anti-viral protocol.

>>Now that I've looked at him, the underside of all his toes, the

fatty part just under the tip all look like skin peeling off blisters,

but of course they are not blisters.

Peeling on fingertips and " toe-tips " was yeast for my son.

Dana