Fungal Infections and Raw Healing?

Hello all,

I'm kind of reaching out to anyone here that can give me some tips on how to control or moreover, get rid of a "fungal infection" (basically a rash that discolours the skin and creates a lot of irritation). It's quite itchy lately, and it's grown a bit over the last year or so. I've had it for about 5 years now, and currently it covers the size of a ping pong ball underneath my right arm. It has regressed and enflamed regularly over the time that it's been on the skin, and it's really enflamed a lot since I've gone very healthy, which is strange, although it doesn't have to be because of the change of food.

The orthodox medicine route is to treat the symptom "until it's gone", but steroid creams and anti-inflammatory creams just made it enflame even more. Hydrocortisone ointments and creams made it regress but only to a plateau, whereby the infection was just visible. Once treatment was stopped it only took a week or so for the area to become enflamed again.

I am thinking of visiting a naturopath/dermatologist/specialist soon, but I want to try to get rid of it naturally this time - no matter what anyone says. If that doesn't work, I'll just cut the skin off with a pair of corrugated scissors. Just kidding :P

Anyone got any ideas?

Clément

p.s. I normally rub on some coconut oil, or E45 cream to really hydrate it, as this helps keep the irritation away and keep it from spreading. I find that sunlight helps to make it get smaller, so vitamin D might have something to do with a fix. It's just a pity that I live in the North-East of England and not California :P

Tags: fungal infection, irritation, itchiness, natural remedy, naturopathy, rash, tcm

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 10:50am: I've only bought bi-carb about once. It was from Frontier Seasonings. I became whole vegan food'er when I became a teen, so I didn't have much reason to buy bi-carb in my life. Isn't the chemical name of bi-carb: Sodium Bi-Carbonate NaC2? Baking powder on the other hand I believe is some weird mixture.

http://www.victoriapacking.com/bpowderinfo.html
The salt part usually has sodium silico aluminate as a free flow agent

How do you find a molecule or a crystal image of bi-carb?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 11:05am: Arm & Hammer has probably always been the #1 baking soda everywhere. I never really shopped in supermarkets though. I've always been into small family owned unfranchised healthfood stores and farmer's markets. I've only seen Arm&Hammer in one healthfood store (and it was a vegan healthfoodstore). Doesn't Arm&Hammer belong to Proctor & Gamble?

by kayell 4 minutes ago
Bicarb has a pile of names. I use Arm & Hammer brand mostly (the most common here).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 11:54am: I bought that Frontier in about 1992.

I hate GNC's.

I love ethnic places.

What's YMMV?

Nice getting to know each other.

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 7, 2008 at 5:43am: Thank you for the netspeak.

Agreed.

Parts of my brain felt like they went through wringers as well. We keep on, find things best for us, and get better or whatever.

by kayell 15 hours ago
RawZi - YMMV

Permalink Reply by Adam on August 7, 2008 at 5:20am: Arm and hammer is definately a proctor and gamble company. A friend of mine who studied nutrition with me runs a charity in the UK called Uncaged, which runs the Boycott Proctor and Gamble campaign for the UK.

Evil company.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Adam on August 7, 2008 at 5:41am: Arm and hammer definately test on animals.

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 11:12am: Oh, I thought the suffix: -ate meant two atoms. What's that? Hydride? Where did NaH come in? Isn't CO carbon monoxide and CO2 carbon dioxide? I guess you're right. Ok, I missed part of it, I think it's this way: (Na2(CO3))

by kayell 1 minute ago
The carbonate part is CO3, the NaH is sodium hydride. It does; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Toeknee on August 6, 2008 at 11:22am: "ate" refers to anions, so the correct chemical annotation for Sodium bicarbonate is NaHCO3 -- I believe. But "who cares about chemistry"? lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 11:25am: Good Intuition always seems to help heal rather than official medically proven chemistry.

by Toni 1 minute ago
"ate" refers to anions

as above: http://www.victoriapacking.com/bpowderinfo.html
The salt part usually has sodium silico aluminate as a free flow agent

anti caking agent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_aluminosilicate

that's where it came from kayell, right?

Permalink Reply by Toeknee on August 6, 2008 at 11:28am: I couldn't agree more, Rawzi.

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 11:38am: thank you

by Toni 8 minutes ago
I couldn't

Permalink Reply by RawZi on August 6, 2008 at 12:06pm: lol, i like pokeweed berries, or they love me. i have a weird body. true, most people don't have much intuition.

by kayell 12 minutes ago
RawZi,

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Looks like I'll keep buying lumpy baking soda. Sheesh, cause lumps are such a HUGE