#scabies rash

[emanshaaban]

https://gofund.me/816fbef2

Hello, my name is Iman, and I am a mother of five children,. I live with my family in northern Gaza, where we are facing famine and hardships due to the harsh war on Gaza. We had lived a relatively peaceful life despite the challenges imposed by the long blockade on Gaza before the war.

We have been displaced eight times, moving from one school to another, and now we are living a life of homelessness and starvation. Even clean water is unavailable. 💔😭 My children are starving and suffer from malnutrition every day, going to bed hungry. I cry for my two-year-old daughter when she asks for milk

which we cannot provide. Her frail body survives on flour and stale bread, deprived of everything. My children crave vegetables, meat, and fruits; we haven't eaten any of these in 10 months, since the war started. Our bodies have deteriorated, our bones have weakened, and my son Mohamed's chest bones have become visible, along with the vertebrae of his spine. He also suffers from scabies due to the lack of cleanliness and medicine.

Our bodies are filled with rashes from the heat because we are living with 40 people in a small, overcrowded classroom.

My children have been deprived of education, even though they were all excelling in their studies

Your donations will be a beacon of hope for Iman and her family, offering them a chance to survive and live under these harsh conditions and high living costs. Even a very small contribution, every dollar, makes a difference in their lives. Please, join us in extending a helping hand during this difficult and challenging time.

We are in northern Gaza, bodies without life. Famine is killing us, from the old to the young. We desperately need your support, even if it’s something small.

‌Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #31 )

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[alaa-pales]

STOP AND HELP OUR CHILDREN 👇😭

Scabies, rashes plaque Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in GAZA's tent camps and beyond. Also, new spread of unknown diseases tied to foreign agents and chemicals inside of bombs.

This has been a genocide on children in GAZA. Millions of whom are starving, homeless, orphaned, in dire need of water, and missing limbs. Yet, the world remains silent and has NOT put a stop to this.

Verified by Operation Olive Branch line 395 master line👇🔗

We still very far from the goal. I hope everyone will donate even a little. I am confident that you will stand with me and support me until I reach my goal and remove my family from the danger of war. Share my story. Pin my story to your page. Everything helps. 😭💔

[yancant]

https://gofund.me/816fbef2

‌Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #31

Hello, my name is Iman, and I am a mother of five children,. I live with my family in northern Gaza, where we are facing famine and hardships due to the harsh war on Gaza. We had lived a relatively peaceful life despite the challenges imposed by the long blockade on Gaza before the war.

We have been displaced eight times, moving from one school to another, and now we are living a life of homelessness and starvation. Even clean water is unavailable. 💔😭 My children are starving and suffer from malnutrition every day, going to bed hungry. I cry for my two-year-old daughter when she asks for milk, which we cannot provide. Her frail body survives on flour and stale bread, deprived of everything. My children crave vegetables, meat, and fruits; we haven't eaten any of these in 10 months, since the war started. Our bodies have deteriorated, our bones have weakened, and my son Mohamed's chest bones have become visible, along with the vertebrae of his spine. He also suffers from scabies due to the lack of cleanliness and medicine. Our bodies are filled with rashes from the heat because we are living with 40 people in a small, overcrowded classroom. My children have been deprived of education, even though they were all excelling in their studies

Your donations will be a beacon of hope for Iman and her family, offering them a chance to survive and live under these harsh conditions and high living costs. Even a very small contribution, every dollar, makes a difference in their lives. Please, join us in extending a helping hand during this difficult and challenging time.

We are in northern Gaza, bodies without life. Famine is killing us, from the old to the young. We desperately need your support, even if it’s something small.

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Hello! My heart goes out to you, your family, and everyone in Gaza. You’re experiencing something nobody should have to :(( it sucks not being able to do more, but I will do what I can !!

I’ve donated what I can already as a student, now everyone who is viewing my acc rn kindly do the same and check this out!! Every donation counts.

[crapscicle]

https://gofund.me/816fbef2

‌Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #31

Hello, my name is Iman, and I am a mother of five children,. I live with my family in northern Gaza, where we are facing famine and hardships due to the harsh war on Gaza. We had lived a relatively peaceful life despite the challenges imposed by the long blockade on Gaza before the war.

We have been displaced eight times, moving from one school to another, and now we are living a life of homelessness and starvation. Even clean water is unavailable. 💔😭 My children are starving and suffer from malnutrition every day, going to bed hungry. I cry for my two-year-old daughter when she asks for milk, which we cannot provide. Her frail body survives on flour and stale bread, deprived of everything. My children crave vegetables, meat, and fruits; we haven't eaten any of these in 10 months, since the war started. Our bodies have deteriorated, our bones have weakened, and my son Mohamed's chest bones have become visible, along with the vertebrae of his spine. He also suffers from scabies due to the lack of cleanliness and medicine. Our bodies are filled with rashes from the heat because we are living with 40 people in a small, overcrowded classroom. My children have been deprived of education, even though they were all excelling in their studies

Your donations will be a beacon of hope for Iman and her family, offering them a chance to survive and live under these harsh conditions and high living costs. Even a very small contribution, every dollar, makes a difference in their lives. Please, join us in extending a helping hand during this difficult and challenging time.

We are in northern Gaza, bodies without life. Famine is killing us, from the old to the young. We desperately need your support, even if it’s something small.

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PLEASE help Iman yall!!!

https://gofund.me/816fbef2

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸 🚨 UNICEF REPORT WARNS GAZA'S CHILDREN CANNOT ACCESS 90% OF THEIR WATER NEEDS

A report published by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned Wednesday that children in the Gaza Strip cannot access 90% of their water needs.

"Recently displaced children in the southern Gaza Strip are accessing only 1.5 to 2 litres of water each day, well below the recommended requirements just for survival, according to UNICEF estimates," the report states.

The report points out that according to humanitarian standards, the minimum amount of water needed in an emergency is 15 litres, which includes drinking water, as well as water for cooking and washing. For minimal survival, the report says, the estimated required water consumption is 3 litres per day.

Since the resumption of Israeli hostilities after the expiration of the brief 7-day truce agreement last month, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, half of them children, have migrated south to Rafah under heavy bombardment.

As demand for food, water, shelter and fuel increase, the report mentions, water and sanitation systems have reached a critical state.

"The resumption of hostilities, coupled with a lack of power supply, fuel shortages, restricted access, and infrastructure damage means that at least 50 per cent of WASH facilities are damaged or destroyed," the report says, referring to water and sanitation services.

"The impact of this on children is particularly dramatic because children are also more susceptible to dehydration, diarrhea, disease and malnutrition, all of which can compound to present a threat to their survival."

According to the report, concerns about water-born diseases such as cholera and chronic diarrhea are especially heightened after recent rains and flooding that swept through the eastern Mediterranean.

The report points to the work of officials who have recorded almost 20 times the monthly average of reported cases of diarrhea among children under the age of 5, in addition to increases of cases of scabies, lice, chicken pox, skin rashes and more than 160,000 cases of acute respiratory infection.

“Access to sufficient amounts of clean water is a matter of life and death, and children in Gaza have barely a drop to drink,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Children and their families are having to use water from unsafe sources that are highly salinated or polluted. Without safe water, many more children will die from deprivation and disease in the coming days.”

The report also mentions the dire conditions of shelters and refugee camps where, on average, there is only one toilet per 700 people, forcing many people to use buckets or to defecate openly.

Washing is another major issue, with virtually no showers available, which is particularly impacting women and girls as hygiene options become non-existent, increasing the risk of disease.

The UNICEF report points to its work to provide fuel and water to the displaced Palestinian population, saying it has so far delivered bottled water and water containers to 1.3 million people since the start of the crises on October 7th, when the Israeli Occupation began its siege and bombardment of Gaza.

UNICEF also says it has provided "more than 45,000 jerry cans, more than 130,000 family hygiene kits, including menstrual health and hygiene products, and hundreds of thousands of bars of soap" to displaced Palestinian families.

"Since the start of the crisis, UNICEF with partners, has reached over 189,000 people with hygiene supplies and more than 400,000 people with hygiene and sanitation services," the report says.

"During the humanitarian pause, UNICEF was also able to reach the northern Gaza Strip despite extremely challenging access conditions, and distributed 260,000 litres of water and 10,000 hygiene kits."

The report further mentions that although generators to operate critical water and sanitation services are available in Rafah, the equipment is unable to cross into Gaza "due to access restrictions imposed on such supplies, which are necessary to ensure minimum water and sanitation services critical for the survival of the people and children are restored."

“We are doing everything we can to meet the needs of the people in Gaza, but the equipment and supplies we’ve managed to provide are far from enough,” said UNICEF Executive Director Russell. “The constant bombing, along with the restrictions on materials and fuel allowed into the territory, are preventing critical progress. We urgently need these supplies to repair damaged water systems.”

UNICEF also says it is continuing to call for "rapid, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access to all children and families in need, wherever they are, including to allow for the water and sanitation needs in the Gaza Strip to be addressed through the restoring and rehabilitation of existing infrastructure, and for all parties to adhere to their international legal responsibilities to protect water and sanitation facilities and workers entrusted to ensure maintenance and repair of these facilities."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[good-old-gossip]

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza have contracted skin diseases

According to the World Health Organisation, skin diseases like scabies, lice and skin rashes are so rampant amongst children in the Gaza Strip due to poor sanitary conditions caused by overcrowding, something that had occurred due to Israel’s bombing campaign and issuance of fliers that have packed around 1.3 million people in against each other close to Khan Younis.

[fair-dinkum-mechanic]

I know this will just be. Read and ignored. And I don’t mind. I know it seems like I expect people to have the answers but I really truly don’t.

So I had my 30th birthday last night. I spent months planning it. I spent thousands of dollars on it. I wanted everyone I’ve ever cared about in my life to be in one place just for one night. Just to see them and be with them. And I was, for the most part, and it was incredible and meant a lot. But there was drama. No matter what choices I make they’re the wrong ones. I hurt someone. I try so hard to let people know how much I care about them and how much I love them and how much they mean to me I try so hard. I never can though. I never ever can.

So last night was amazing. But the thread of sadness was still there

So much in my life is wrong. It’s wrong. I’m 30 and never lived away from home, but I choose that, I can’t leave mum all on her own. I can’t. And I don’t have a partner to move with. I’d be on ky own. I’d kill myself.

I work so much. I make money, but what for? I try so hard to smile and treat customers so pleasantly like I’m a friend but I still get abused and pushed around and then I go home to more of the same.

I’ve been itching so much since December. With rashes and fear that I have scabies or something else contagious even though nobody else has any symptoms. And the doctors and specialists refuse to help me they refuse to even examine me properly. So I feel like I can’t even cuddle or hug people.

I’m on the outskirts of all of my friendships and I have nobody to blame but myself.

I really truly am only alive because I can’t imagine how confused and distrssed my cat would be. If anything happens to her I have my plans in place.

It’s not a matter of if anymore it’s just a matter of when. When am I going to take the next logical step and end this terror that I feel on a daily basis. When am I going to finally leave the silence from others and give myself completely to an eternal silence.

I don’t want to be alive anymore. I don’t.

[sydmarch]

LOL I found these pictures I'd forgotten about from when I stayed w my ex in this hotel during college that gave us both scabies so back in my dorm room while recovering I took all these close up high exposure soft focus photos of my rashes that literally look like they could be shots from antiviral despite the fact this was years before I'd even seen it. it was destiny

[dwellordream]

“For centuries people have been trying to take care of their skin, making use of many different products, recipes and practices. A new study focusing on the works of the famous medieval doctor Trotula de Ruggiero reveals a skincare routine that is an “extraordinary combination of tradition and modernity.”

The study, led by a team from the University of Salerno, examines two works by Trotula de Ruggiero, also known as Trota of Salerno, who was part of the Medical School of Salerno around the beginning of the 12th century. Trotula’s works have long been considered to be key texts for understanding women’s medicine in the Middle Ages. But they also tell much about cosmetic remedies, including skin treatments, hair dyes, teeth whitening, eye and lip makeup, and body care procedures.

The researchers first note that Trotula’s work detailed the use of many traditional medicines. While many historians have been skeptical that these items could be effective, newer research in pharmacology has revealed their positive health effects. This is also true for medicines involved in skin and beauty care.

Over 40 different herbs, minerals, and animal derivatives are mentioned in Trotula’s work and also are used in modern skincare products. For example, fava beans have a medieval use as a facial cleanser and are now used in products to protect against abscesses, rashes and warts.

Vinegar could be found in Trotula’s recipes for hair care and colouring, scabies, face, lip and gum care; today is used for scalp psoriasis, hair care and as a face exfoliator. Meanwhile, egg yolk found use in the medieval text for lightening and strengthening hair, while today is considered useful for nourishing damaged hair.

The similarities between Trotula’s skincare remedies and modern ones go beyond just the ingredients but also in their ways of application. The researchers write:

Trotula’s beauty tips for the face are surprisingly current and resemble the modern “skincare routine,” as they involve a pre-treatment, Consisting of thorough washing together with what we can define a modern peeling and a simple exfoliating mask before the application of specific functional treatments. The evolution of concepts, practices, ingredients, and methodologies in use in the aesthetic field from the Middle Ages to today, allow us to underline similarities and differences.

Indeed, the specific recipes for facial treatment confirm the study and interest in aesthetic problems and “cosmetic” products by the Salerno Medical School. The original cosmetic science of Trotula shares with modern cosmetology, even in the case of the treatments proposed for the face, the goal of seeking to improve one’s appearance, making us perceive the existence of a canon of beauty of the time, but also to preserve skin health or cure various skin diseases, with a focus on prevention, a key and modern concept of Salerno practical medicine.

This need is met with a wide application of herbs, minerals, and animal fats, used as raw materials to formulate cosmetics that we would currently define as “functional”.

For example, one facial cleaning that Trotula describes begins with a pre-treat wash that is based on tartar oil that provides a softening, lightening, and smoothing action. This tartar oil is not just a simple item, either, for it is made by soaking the tartar in vinegar using iron containers, a process which takes three to four days to complete.

There is even more complexity to the treatment: “Trotula recommends applying tartar oil at night for its greasiness, for at least 7 consecutive nights, in relation to the type of skin; a particularly dry skin may require prolonged treatment for up to 15 days. During the day, in the period of night treatment with tartar oil, the skin should be washed with water and starch, which acts as a sprinkling and adsorbent/lightening powder.

To prepare the starch, fresh barley grains are left to rot in three parts of water and ground in a mortar. The resulting slurry is crushed, and then, the water is left to evaporate in the sun in order to obtain a dry product that can be stored for subsequent applications.” Today, this combination of tartar and vinegar is still used to treat dry skin.

The study points out that knowledge of plants, animals and minerals for their cosmetic use is something that goes back to ancient times and follows a long tradition, which Trotula de Ruggiero was able to write down and detail.

The researchers conclude:

Trotula’s cosmetics and modern cosmetics seem to share a holistic vision since both don’t only look at the “product” and the “remedy” separated from the person to whom it is addressed. They have in common the attention to the balance and harmony of the individual, in the “man / woman-product-environment” interaction.

Sustainable solutions and products, environmental protection, cost optimization with respect to performance are the drivers of cosmetology of the third millennium which, like Trotula’s cosmetology, is at the service of the person, aims to contribute to accompanying and slowing down the normal and physiological aging, wants to cooperate in well-being, using the help that comes from the plant world and the ecosystem in general.”

- Medieval skincare routines were remarkably similar to modern versions, study finds

[emanshaaban]

Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #31 )

https://gofund.me/816fbef2

Hello, my name is Iman, and I am a mother of five children,. I live with my family in northern Gaza, where we are facing famine and hardships due to the harsh war on Gaza. We had lived a relatively peaceful life despite the challenges imposed by the long blockade on Gaza before the war.

We have been displaced eight times, moving from one school to another, and now we are living a life of homelessness and starvation. Even clean water is unavailable. 💔😭 My children are starving and suffer from malnutrition every day, going to bed hungry. I cry for my two-year-old daughter when she asks for milk, which we cannot provide. Her frail body survives on flour and stale bread, deprived of everything. My children crave vegetables, meat, and fruits; we haven't eaten any of these in 10 months, since the war started. Our bodies have deteriorated, our bones have weakened, and my son Mohamed's chest bones have become visible, along with the vertebrae of his spine. He also suffers from scabies due to the lack of cleanliness and medicine. Our bodies are filled with rashes from the heat because we are living with 40 people in a small, overcrowded classroom. My children have been deprived of education, even though they were all excelling in their studies

Your donations will be a beacon of hope for Iman and her family, offering them a chance to survive and live under these harsh conditions and high living costs. Even a very small contribution, every dollar, makes a difference in their lives. Please, join us in extending a helping hand during this difficult and challenging time.

We are in northern Gaza, bodies without life. Famine is killing us, from the old to the young. We desperately need your support, even if it’s something small.

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[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

So mom is on a warpath.

Not over anything in regard to us for once, thank God, but oh boy!

So we were talking about Star Wars(as in SHE was talking my ear off about stuff I don't understand) when she gets a Friend Request on Facebook from someone she knew 20+ years ago. And she freezes in the middle of a rat about how the new Star Wars films are just 'fanfiction' to say, "The fuck- she better be hacked cuz no way am I accepting HER as a friend! Hell no!"

Sees my confused look.

"Remember I mentioned the Gensiaks some time ago?"

Vaguely, mind you.

"Joan just fucking tried to Friend Request me after what she did!"

Mom reveals all.

Susan Gensiak and her two daughters(adults 24+, mind you) took her son Robert out of a personal care home so they could use the money he was getting for disability, for rent so they wouldn't have to work. He had Down Syndrome plus several other health problems, and they were using him for his disability check. Then had tied him down to his bed because he wasn't well and couldn't understand basic instructions, so he kept getting moving around and it made them angry.

They would lock him in and leave him alone for hours at a time as they went out to eat every day. They neglected him so terribly that by the time he died, he had been down to 69 lbs, was trapped in his own feces, and covered in scabies(rash cause by mites that burrow into the skin) after years of mistreatment.

To make things worse, the scabies infected the ENTIRE HOSPITAL when he was brought to the morgue, and everyone had to be put on special medication to handle it.

Now, all three got different sentences. The youngest who was 24 was still in college and was technically living with a friend and she was aware of this behavior the entire time, but the mom was so abusive(she legit stole her own father's money while he was in a care home for Alzheimer's) and controlling that she was too scared to stand up against her. She did everything she could to get a scholarship and left as soon as she could to avoid her family. BUT, when she finally go so tired of her guilt that she went to the cops and confessed what was going on, she was still guilty enough for a few years in prison.

The other two were punished more severely and the other daughter is finally out of prison and is now trying to befriend my mom again after all of that.

The audacity. It proves wholeheartedly that she did not change after being in prison for so damn long for voluntary manslaughter and several other charges. She's been reaching out to people she knew back then in an attempt to reconnect and honestly thinks people will just welcome her back with open arms. The youngest daughter has gone about her own life after doing her time in prison and she has minded her own business.

Mom is now in a terrible mood and on the verge of tears thinking about Robert Gensiak and what he'd gone through.

[soullikethesea]

More in the sensory processing TMI adventure

I barely slept at all during the night because of the rash. It’s itching. So much. I had to take a benzo to catch any hours at all. Just now I finally caved and called for medical advice. They told me it sounds most like an allergic reaction and that I could try calling another service that can also look at my medical file, but that it is also fine to wait a bit and see how it progresses. They recommended cooling gel. I’m quite relieved, because a while back one of my roommates got scabies and I do not want to deal with that. That’s a big Nope. They said it sounds unlikely to be scabies based on my symptoms, so that’s a big plus. Secretely I think it might just be my body responding like it does - just ramp up any physical thing it can “think” of, to sort of express the emotional turmoil. “This is how stressed we are!!!” and then express that literally across my entire body. The endo pain wasn’t effective in stopping me, the IBS doesn’t, and the migraine also didn’t... and... I’ve also been working this week with the cold. So now maybe it wants to test out itchy rashes? I know this way of thinking is kind of irrational. I don’t know how to not-function. I am sorry for the poor body that is faced with that.

[medconicderma]

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[lostlittle-star]

My psoriasis story

I have been thinking for a while to write something down about this. To give it a place, because let's be honest, it fucking sucks and it's ugly.

So here is my struggle, my journey:

The journey until now has been one with a lot of doctors appointments just to figure out what was wrong.

My story started last year when I noticed some sort of rash on my legs. In the beginning it were 3 spots, a couple of days later it were 10 and the next week they appeared on my other leg too, so first appointment at my general practitioner.

First diagnosis: folliculitis (infection/inflammation hair follicles). Remedy: washing myself with disinfectant soap and treat the spots with an antibacterial ointment. It should be getting better at the end of the week.

Wrong. So second appointment.

Second diagnosis: scabies. Fuck! Seriously? Me?! This made me feel ashamed, dirty. I immediately went to the pharmacy and hopped into the shower. Still washing myself with the disinfectant soap, which is making my skin extremely dry, and afterwards the prescribed ointment. New pj's and fresh sheets on the bed, every day. Again, it should be getting better within the week.

Wrong.

Little note, I had a lot of doubts with this diagnosis, I have also a medical background from my time in college (not anymore though). But who am I to go up against the doctor?

The general practitioner is still convinced with the diagnosis. So second week of extreme measurements, fresh clothes and sheets every day, still showering with the disinfectant soap and treatment with the ointment. It should be visibly getting better in days. If it wouldn't, this time I could call.

Well guess what? It was still not getting better. I had now patches on my legs, arms, torso and back. And the diagnosis made it all itch even move. So on Friday I called my general practitioner for the update and miraculously got an appointment with a dermatologist the very next Monday (normally it takes at least half a year to get one).

The appointment with the dermatologist was finally there and I finally got answers. He first checked my fingers for little burrows and smiled a little immediately. Well, I got wrongly diagnosed for four weeks. Finally the right answer I had been waiting for.

The definitive diagnosis: guttate psoriasis. A rare form of psoriasis, less invasive, probably caused by a throat infection. And of course always diagnosed late. Treatment? The same as the typical psoriasis, a corticosteroid foam.

After four weeks, treatment finally started. Since it started so late, the patches on my legs will need a lot more time to heal.

A little flash forward. The most recent patches had disappeared easily after 2 weeks of treatment, it has been 4 months since since the first signs. But those on my legs had healed a lot, the discoloration was still going to be visible for months. Because it needs time, too much time for my liking. It is good it was winter when all this started. At the moment I am writing this, it is already spring and the new batch of patches on my legs are still very visible. And I am struggling with it.

I don't think the dermatologist keep the mental factor in mind. After the diagnosis it's all about the treatment, where and how to apply. For someone who has always been bullied, this is one other blow to the self-esteem.

There are days when it easy, apply lotion in the morning and put on some long trousers and I ignore it for the rest of the day. But there are so, so many days I find it hard to look at my body. And I onow shouldn't be complaining, since it's not as invasive as the typical psoriasis. But I can't help it to struggle with my self image. Will I be able to wear dresses or shorts this summer? Is it going to disappear? Will it come back if all the spots are away?

So, will this story have and end? Will it be like a thread through my life?

This auto-immune illness is one I will have to live with and honestly I get it why no one talks about it and hides it. We all shouldn't.