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How I Beat Ecxema

By: C R Ellsworth

How long has it been since you could go out into the sun for a tan, or went out in short sleeves and tennis shorts?

The challenge and search for an ecxema remedy started on a long driving trip in the 90’s. I was moving from Southern Florida to New Mexico for business purposes. It worked out that the vehicle transport went this way. I first drove the 2200+ miles in a company vehicle, then within a few weeks flew back to drive my personal vehicle to the new home. So almost 5000 miles driving in a fairly short period. I know Truckers do this all the time, but in the vehicles I had driven this wasn’t done often. The challenge I speak of started as an innocuous dime sized spot on my butt. It didn’t seem like much. Was that a wrong statement. While not a life threatening malady I was to find over time that it can be much more than an inconvenience.

The education was very slow because the spread of this ’skin problem’ was extremely slow. It was probably 3 to 4 years before I noticed that I was adapting parts of my life and everyday actions to this ‘challenge’. It had slowly shown it’s effects on more and more of my body, sometimes in forms I didn’t connect to those original ‘dime size’ spots. I often had to wear leather work gloves and long sleeves to keep the sun off of affected areas. This was necessary if steroids were used topically where the sun would hit. The gloves clashed with my suit. Long sleeves with a suit are OK. Summer in the High Desert will usually make you wish for short sleeves.

At some point outbreaks would find me in bandages on my arms and/or legs.

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