Was wondering if anyone could offer some advice, my partner suffers a lanolin allergy which, in all honesty makes life rather difficult at the best of times, but now it's a nightmare!
He's recently started to get patches of dry, peeling skin on his hands and every cream that we can think of putting on it has been a "no go" because of his allergy to lanolin.
Anyone know of any cream/solution/anything that we could use?
I know someone at work that has the same allergy. She uses shea butter products so you might find that this won't irritate the skin but i don't know if it wil get rid of the rash.
I would suggest your partner sees a NAET practitioner to see if the allergy problem can be resolved.
There's likely to be other allergies (sorry), as well as the obvious - wool & other related products at least.
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Lanolin, also called, Adeps Lanae, wool wax, wool fat, or wool grease, a greasy yellow substance from wool-bearing animals, acts as a skin ointment, water-proofing wax, and raw material (such as in
More on - [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanolin]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanolin[/link]
Some also have an allergy to shea nut oil/butter, which isn't necessarily because it's from a nut. It can be triggered by a chemical called hexane as I believe that it is often used to extract the oil from the shea nut.
More bad news. Shea nut oil is also in some chocolate products, hence why I happened to go digging on the subject - I had a case of someone with a chocolate allergy that turned out to bit a little more complicated than most.
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Will look more into the info Anahata (think it you might be right about other allergies, he does seem to have symptoms of other things at times, either that or he's a hypochondriac [sp?])
Thanks Calla Lilly will give E45 a try before slashing out on more expensive creams etc!
Thanks to everyone for all the advice, hopefully this will stop the other half pestering me! [sm=grouphug.gif] You are all wonderful!
Hi, my name's Chloe, im 19 years old and i've suffered with eczema pretty much all my life. Being a girl, wanting to use perfume, avoiding products like fake tan, cosmetics and bath and moisturizing products can get quite upsetting.
I used E45 for years and I used to lap it onto my skin as an emollient before I went to bed and I actually, after a few months started to wake up with my skin feeling really puffy and swollen but it would wear down throughout the day. They say if you take antihistamines after a reaction then it most definitely is an allergy.
There is actually Lanolin in E45 emollients and creams and i'm really peeved off by that beause everyone else swears by it! Lanolin is the only thing in that cream i can be allergic to... its also in most foundations and creams to make them feel soft and silky.
I use a cream now called Oilatum cream, I get it on prescription free (because im still in full-time education) and it does the job. Emollients should be lapped onto your skin seriously its meant to go on thick, and brush it in the direction your hair grows so you dont clog pores otherwise it gives you the odd, occasional pimple or spot in random places like your arms, back or chest etc and its not nice at all.
You should get other allergy tests done as well to see if theres anything within your husbands diet to help out.
They say to keep skin moist, take omega 3,6&9 capsules daily, available from places like boots and holland and barretts, theyre really good. Oil of evening primrose is also meant to be amazing... ive just started taking it so I cant tell at the moment.
And if you're willing to pay prices like £35 a week, go to the chinese herbalists "dr & herbs", I went to the one in the trafford centre last week to get a collection of herbs made up for me, you boil them and strain the liqud from it to drink... Its foul stuff but it cleared my uncles psoriasis after just 2 weeks. Also, ive just paid for a weeks supply to see how it goes and just 1 days worth of herbs, boiled and strained has seen me through 2 days drinking it morning and night... I just put it in a jug in the fridge until I need it, then reheat it in the microwave... it really does stink though hahah . good luck! xxx chloe xxx
My hubby has a problem with the skin on his hands going very dry and cracking. We've bought loads of different things, the most recent purchase is Neem cream which seems to be working better than most. Our daughter has a lanolin/wool allergy though, but she just avoids products containing lanolin and fortunately her skin doesn't break out too often.
My suggestion is to eat plenty of omega oils - from oily fish and nuts and seeds. Often a dry skin is showing up a lack of these essential oils in the diet. Lathering on any type of 'cream' is only ever palliative until the lack of essential oils is dealt with - and this will probably need considerably more than one capsule a day - but that would be for the practitioner to advise on.
Lanolin allergy is surprisingly common. There are many other oils you can use - nut and seed oils for a start will rub in - don't smell so 'nice' but have far fewer additives in them, and add some oil from a vitamin E capsule too. You might be surprised at the results. Olive oil was extensively used on the skin in Ancient Greece and Rome.
As Caroline says, the creams will help with the symptoms but not really the cause. However, saying that, a doctor should be able to presribe lanolin free emolient cream in large quantities (big dispensers, i've got one at home) and it's essentially the same as E45 (almost the same ingredients) but you get masses of it for the price of a prescription. The first thing though is to convince the doctor.
The best thing of course though is to deal with the cause, and that could be related to dealing with nutrition, stess/emotions etc. via any of a variety of techniques, and I'm sure you know there's plenty of different ones to try just by looking on HP.
Thank you for the advice Caroline & Giles. I'll have to get hubby to eat more oily fish etc. (not his favourite food) and as a start get him to take fish oil capsules.
Here are the some prevention fromlanolin allergy
1.Avoiding using creams and lotions or ointments that contain lanolin
2.Minimizing one’s exposure to the allergy. This can prevent rash appearing on one’s body
3.Topical steroids are used to treat this condition.
by following these tips you can surely come out from the problem of lanolin allergy.
I too am allergic to lanolin, and "wool alcohols" which again is from sheep! I also have a funny reaction to lamb when I eat it, seem to be allergic to the whole animal!
I can't use E45, it contains lanolin in a "non allergenic" version or something, but I'm still allergic to it.
Body shop stuff can be good, at least it used to be. It tends to contain no animal products (which lanolin is), also anything with a vegan (not just vegetarian, they'll use the outside of the animal!) on it.
These days I have some cream on prescription, called "Aquadrate", has to be prescribed by the brand name, as some other brands contain wool alcohols.
In the past, I've found baby cream useful! Johnson's baby cream. Also some own brand (eg Tesco's) handcreams. Thing is, is checking the labels every time. They go and change the formulas and don't say. VERY annoying!
One more thing! Remembered later yesterday, I can also use Neutrogena handcream which is pretty good. (Again, check they haven't changed the formula and added lanolin now!)
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