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5 Rituals That Helped Me Grieve a Parent’s Terminal Illness
Courtesy of Chelsea Avila and Photo Illustration: Siobhan GallagherCourtesy of Chelsea Avila and Photo Illustration: Siobhan Gallagher Even up until the last day of my father’s life, I still looked at him as invincible. This was a man who had been diagnosed with stage three pancreatic cancer right at the start of his golden years. Yet, even with an inoperable tumor, radiation, and rounds of chemotherapy, he was still here — fighting, thriving, loving, deteriorating, and yet always looking for a reason to stand up and keep going, even two years later. I was witness to some of his best moments and some of the hardest any child can experience.…
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I Tried Oatmeal Baths For My Eczema: See Photos
As enticing as a soothing hot bath after a long day sounds, anyone with eczema knows it can be a one-way ticket to a flare-up. Overly hot showers or baths are easily the biggest triggers to avoid and are worth steering clear of to keep the itchy, irritated symptoms of atopic dermatitis at bay. An oat bath, however, is different. Not to be mistaken with a load of cooked oats dumped into a tub of hot water, this eczema treatment consists of pouring finely milled colloidal oatmeal into a lukewarm-temperature bath. As one of the oldest tricks in the book, it doesn’t sting, smell, or call for a tedious setup;…
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I Tried Meditation For Eczema: Editor Experiment
Courtesy of Chelsea AvilaCourtesy of Chelsea Avila Have you ever found yourself so lost in thought, mentally rummaging through whatever it is that’s been causing you stress, and then suddenly, the only reaction that seems to bring you back into solution mode is the feeling of your fingernails scratching against your skin? Well, my friends, that right there is the most picturesque description I can give you to define the relationship stress and eczema can have with one another. While I often find that the state of my mental well-being and the intensity of a flare-up are in cahoots, the power I have always lies in the daily moisturizing rituals…
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I Tried Body Slugging For Eczema: See Photos
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. There’s a little dance I’ve learned to master with my eczema-prone skin after spending most of my adolescence with thick, scaly, and red patches atop my knee and on many of the other bendy parts of my body. And that dance has mostly involved my keeping my skin moisturized day in and day out with creams rather than lotions, as well as avoiding the heavily fragranced body-care products that were crucial to my generation’s Victoria’s Secret…
