Hot Salt Baths and UVB

[Bohgosity BumaskiL]

Many people travel to sunny climates near the ocean to treat their
psoriasis. The Dead Sea iz a popular one. Between the salt water and
the extra sunlight, it works. In two weeks of careful exposure,
like less than twenty minutes for a white man, a psoriatic can even
work up a tan. Maybe it'll even last a month, despite psoriatic skin
turning over about every four dayz, instead uv the normal twenty-eight.

What duz salt water contribute? I do not really know, except that
skin iz excretory, and hot salt water works well to remove what your
kidneys do not. For a link between your kidneys and "obsolete"
treatment for psoriasis:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921747

There iz even a measure of psoriasis called "trans-epidermal water
loss" (TEWL), which iz an acronym for sweat. Maybe you hav been told
that strenuous excercize iz good for psoriatics. Eksersize iz good
for a lot of health problems. Limit your sedentary behaviour to 23
1/2 hours.

103 degrees fahrenheit: That iz all I can stand with Epsom salt
water that Pagano recommends. Another guy, who's advice for
psoriatics comes to fifty-five pages of pdf, recommends
water-conditioner salt, which iz a lot cheaper. If you do not see
anything usable in your bathtub, at your local supermarket, then you
can find cheap Sodium Chloride at a salt-water aquarium shop. If you
will relax while you sweat, then you need a good thermometer. I
start with my thermometer under my tap, and then I circulate water
with one hand, and measure the temperature of water in my tub with
my other hand. I can maintain sweating-temperature pretty easily
once I know the feel of it.

Remember to hyper-hydrate yourself before sweating.
I drink a whole jug of juice frum concentrate before my hot baths.
I hav done the same before some eksersize.

A treatment for psoriasis haz been called PUVA for a long time. It
iz not az effective az ultra-violet light in the B-spectrum. UVA haz
been called the aging spectrum. Contrastively, UVB iz called the
burning spectrum. That sounds worse than it iz. UVB iz safer than
UVC and more effective than UVA.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23435015

I hav not been getting enough eksersize, UVB, or hot salt baths. To
go the cheap way with UVB, I need a prescription, too.

[JRStern]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:48:34 -0600, Bohgosity BumaskiL
<brew...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:

>I hav not been getting enough eksersize, UVB, or hot salt baths. To
>go the cheap way with UVB, I need a prescription, too.

Good UVB in sunshine, hours nearest noon, no prescription needed.

Just a bit hard to measure, but a little can help a lot.

J.

[Bohgosity BumaskiL]

Snoh iz stiL here at latitude fifty-three, so outside of a solarium
or a greenhouse, I am not dressing down to a swimsuit.

[JRStern]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:53:51 -0600, Bohgosity BumaskiL

<brew...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:

>On 2013-03-28 9:39 PM, JRStern wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:48:34 -0600, Bohgosity BumaskiL
>> <brew...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I hav not been getting enough eksersize, UVB, or hot salt baths. To
>>> go the cheap way with UVB, I need a prescription, too.
>>
>> Good UVB in sunshine, hours nearest noon, no prescription needed.
>>
>> Just a bit hard to measure, but a little can help a lot.
>>
>> J.
>>
>Snoh iz stiL here at latitude fifty-three, so outside of a solarium
>or a greenhouse, I am not dressing down to a swimsuit.

Well spring has sprung, so have a talk with your weatherman.

Another week or two and I guess you have all the UVB you can shake a
stick at ... or do you? I guess even summers you don't get the sun
dead overhead or anything like it for more than an hour or two.

You consider relocating to Cancun or other sunnier locales?

J.

[Bohgosity BumaskiL]

On 2013-03-31 4:38 PM, JRStern wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:53:51 -0600, Bohgosity BumaskiL
> <brew...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-03-28 9:39 PM, JRStern wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:48:34 -0600, Bohgosity BumaskiL
>>> <brew...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hav not been getting enough eksersize, UVB, or hot salt baths. To
>>>> go the cheap way with UVB, I need a prescription, too.
>>>
>>> Good UVB in sunshine, hours nearest noon, no prescription needed.
>>>
>>> Just a bit hard to measure, but a little can help a lot.
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>> Snoh iz stiL here at latitude fifty-three, so outside of a solarium
>> or a greenhouse, I am not dressing down to a swimsuit.
>
> Well spring has sprung, so have a talk with your weatherman.

Edmonton had snoh just a week ago.

> Another week or two and I guess you have all the UVB you can shake a
> stick at ... or do you? I guess even summers you don't get the sun
> dead overhead or anything like it for more than an hour or two.

If it's 32C for more than three dayz in Edmonton, we call it a heat
wave. Nobody dies, and we call it a heat wave. People without air
conditioning are in discomfort, and all they need to do iz soak in a
tub of cold water or go to a pool.

> You consider relocating to Cancun or other sunnier locales?

Considering my options (like moving _away_ from family), challenjez
(learning enough Spanish to relocate a _potential_ bizness),
relocation iz pretty much not feasible.

Besides all of that, after May 27th (appt. with Derm.), the lightbox
therapy will be free. Until then, I do not mind paying $3.80/day
(for three minutes per day).

Thoze masheenz are scary. I can *feel* the light, and I can tell
that if it wer not for the fan, I would be feeling toasty. The
maximum exposure iz ten minutes.

> J.
>