Sometimes those vacations to Mexico have side effects….
A 40 year old woman came to me with 5 months of hives, rashes, dry skin, joint cracking and stiffness.
The red patches started under the arms and on her side after the first trip to Mexico. She also had joint stiffness and cracking.
Then, about a month later there was a second trip to Mexico.
This trip added red patches on the stomach and she was now getting hives/red patches after being exposed to the heat of the shower.
She took prednisone and everything went away….
But, like usual, it all came back. Prednisone is a steroid with anti-inflammatory properties, but that doesn’t mean it gets down to the root of the problem.
Just the effect.
The inflammation.
But inflammation isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s part of the body’s response to a problem.
We need to work with it to appropriately locate and remove the problem.
I find a lot of people have some type of fungal, bacteria, or parasitic infection after coming back from Mexico.
And that was definitely the case here.
I figured out the herbs she needed and told her to get off a food that was also driving inflammation. Nature’s remedies work wonders.
They work with the immune system. And they don’t tear the body down.
Within 2 weeks the rashes were almost gone. The joint stiffness was a thing of the past.
The only thing left was a little bit of joint crepitus (cracking). Nothing major. That will resolve in time while the joints build back the lubrication.
She was all smiles on her second visit.
This was a person who had seen a dermatologist and other medical professionals for these ailments with nothing to show for it over the course of 5 months.
Luckily for her, the last medical person she saw referred her to me. If you are reading this, you know who you are, and thanks for all the referrals!