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Before I go further, just for the record, yes, I have taken her to the doctor and yes, we are scheduled to see an E.N.T. She takes multi vitamins and fish oil gummies on her doctor’s recommendation.

My daughter is not quite 2 1/2 years old. In June, she started getting sick. She broke out in hives and had a fever and during this illness, had a seizure due to her fever spiking (I know that’s not particularly dangerous. Just trying to describe the symptoms when this all started). The doctors couldn’t figure out what caused it but her tonsils swelled quite a lot. She was tested for strep,and the flu and they did a V.C.U.G. test, (catheter used to fill her bladder with dye solution to be sure her urine wasn’t backing up into her kidneys). CAT scans were done, chest ex-rays, and blood tests. Nothing conclusive was found, but after 2 antibiotics and antihistamine for the hives, it seemed to get better. It wasn’t a week later when she got sick again. Upper respiratory infection. More antibiotics. I’m not so sure that ever really went away before she got another throat infection, high fevers etc… This continued and her tonsils never shrunk but from what I understand, when a child gets ill sometimes the tonsils can remain swollen for years or even for the rest of that person’s life. They’re still big and red but most of the time, it doesn’t seem to bother her, and she’s never had an ear infection in her life. She does however, snore and tends to salivate excessively, like it’s almost too big a bother to swallow. She has no mental impairment and her speech is above average.

Anyway, she’s been sick since June with only two days that I can remember when she felt really well. She has a perpetually runny nose and a cough that never goes away. A month ago it was really bad again. Her tonsils were so inflamed that they looked like someone poured boiling oil down her throat. They looked like they had blistered and the blisters broke, so there was dead skin hanging from them. She was very lethargic and wouldn’t eat or drink, and her fevers were hitting 104-105. We had her in the E.R. twice and again, they did all of the tests (catheter included but no V.C.U.G.) and found nothing. I took her to her regular doctor and mentioned that if I didn’t know better, I’d think she had Mono. Sure enough, she had an ‘Epstein Barr-type virus’. Three antibiotics later, (for the secondary respiratory infection) she was better (not well, but better than that). Two weeks ago, she had a stomach virus that was going around the day care and was vomiting. That only lasted a day. Last week she caught another stomach virus that was going around her day care (this time it was diarrhea) and most kids were over it in two days. Hers lasted five. She finally went back to the day care today for the first time in a week, and tonight she has a fever of 104. The kid is just never well! I requested that we be referred to an E.N.T. and we’re scheduled for that on the 6th, but if it’s not her tonsils causing this, does anyone have a guess what might be? I am looking for something I may just be missing that I might bring up to the doctor. Yes I know…the doctor is the expert, but sometimes when you don’t get real answers, you really have to look deeper yourself. Doctors are only human and see hundreds of patients a year, so just like with the Mono diagnosis, they can miss things too. Any ideas?

I could only think of two things, and I might be wrong. Either a low immune system or allergies. Seems so minor that it could be allergies but children that are allergic to everything (like I was) stay sick for most of their childhood. You should go to a specialist and have her checked. If its not allergies then at least you will know what she IS allergic too. The other, her immune system, no real suggestions. I know that my child goes to daycare and every morning before we get out of the car (he is almost three) I have him apply a lipbalm with bees’ wax (always have been a firm believer in bee’s wax) and I apply a very small amount of bactorban on his nostrils. I don’t get inside of the nose, just around the outside of it. He use to get sick everytime he went to daycare. I couldn’t keep him well. And this was during the months that I thought he would be the most well (summer) and he still never was. He got the virous at school but always kept it for a really long time. After applying the bactorban cream it has totally cleared up and he stays well now. Sometimes even the virouses that go around at daycare has no affect on him. Ask your doctor if it would be safe to use that cream on your little one. It may help!

Well, to start off with, i should tell you i have dry skin.
My nose, forehead and chin are more oily then my cheeks, but they are still quite dry.
When I use any kind of facial products that have much more than 1% salicylic acid in it, it super dries out my skin. (Clearasil, Neutrogena,Proactive, Clean and Clear, Stridex Pads, none have worked for me[maybe i got the wrong kind?])
Just recently I have been getting little bumps on my forehead. They arn’t zits, they are just little bumps starting where my eyebrows meet and exceeding to about the middle of my forehead.
The only places i really get zits is on my forehead and my nose, sometimes I get a random zit on my cheek, which is hard to get rid of because of my dry skin, but usually I get them on my t-zone area.
But I am having a problem with finding a skin routine that won’t dry my face out, but at the same time, get rid of my nasty bumps, and zits.
So please if you have anyrecommendationss that might be helpful, tell me(:
(if anyone has tried the Clinique skin care products for dry skin, pleasee give me your review on them(:

I have the same problem! Except kind of different. I have oily spots on my nose and chin, but have dry spots on my cheeks and forehead. These are my products I use and work GREAT!

http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/files/2009/10/apricot-scrub-invigorating.jpg

^I use that 1 or 2 times a day. It’s a scrub, getting deep into pores cleaning deeply. It also peels off dry skin, making skin soft and touchable.

http://www.walgreens.com/dbimagecache/38137003572_450×450_a.jpg

^Using that after using the scrub making sure my drier spots get moisturized and yet killing off any type of acne. It does not over-moisturize oily spots, which I love about it.

Hope it helps!

I recently stopped using dermatologist prescribed Benza Clin and Differin, simply just because I ran out and it didn’t really work much for me. I’ve heard incredible reviews about the Clinique 3-Step Skin Care System, so I decided to give it a go. I’ve been using these products for about a week now, and I’m breaking out like crazy. How long should this breakout last for before I start seeing results? Has this happened to anyone before?

I agree with Madz. Especially with doctor prescribed medicines, your skin can get worse before it gets better. Medicine does not get rid of existing acne, it needs to heal on its own. The purpose of acne medications is to prevent further acne. There is nothing you can do about the existing breakouts on your face except let them go on their own. You could put Neosporin on them if you have picked at them, or ones you have not touched you can dry out with alcohol.

Let me tell you a quick story. Many people don’t understand what an important role that elastin in skin plays. Without the high elastin content of human skin our skin would not be able to return to shape after being after stretching or contracting. Imagine if you furrowed your brow and the lines that you made simply stayed in place.

Well that is exactly what happens as we begin to lose elastin in skin as we get older, and that is part of where our lines and wrinkles come from. It is the steady decline in the production of both our collagen and elastin that causes the majority of our aging skin problems, although other factors also weigh heavily on the way that we look as we age.

Elastin content of human skin allows for our skin to posses the resiliency that it has in our youth. Remember the days when you would enjoy being with your friends during your youth sharing big smiles of youthful joy, and even bigger laughs. You thought that somehow you would all be young forever, didn’t you?

Now due to the loss of elastin in skin that you’ve suffered over the twenty or so years since high school or college you can see the effect of every smile and laughed that you shared etched in the lines on your face. I know that you have never regretted the good times that you had, but I also know that you wish that they hadn’t taken such a toll on your skin.

Now though you have products on the market that promise that they can dramatically elastin content of human skin, but actually these products come up a little shy of the results that they promise. This is probably due to the fact that the companies that are producing these products are going about it all the wrong way.

You see, most of these companies are basing their assumptions that they can add more elastin in skin by simply providing you with specially formulated collagen and elastin in a tube that you rub into your skin. Unfortunately for them not enough collagen and elastin can be introduced this way to make much of a difference.

In order to be able to increase the elastin content of human skin what has to happen is that you have to increase the internal production rate of this tissue. How do you accomplish that do you suppose? Through the ritual use of products that contain Functional Keratin as one of the key active ingredients.

This ingredient increases the amount of both collagen and elastin in skin through the introduction into the system of specific protein peptides that are necessary in order to spark new growth. This is the absolute best way known to improve collagen and elastin content of human skin and it has been clinically proven to work effectively.

Make no mistake about it. If you want to increase elastin in skin and erase those lines and wrinkles once and for all then my advice to you would be to get your hands on the line of products that contain Functional Keratin as soon as you can. It’s never too early, or too late to start.

To learn more about ingredients for healthy skin, and other incredible natural substances for natural healthy skin care, visit my website today to see what I personally use.

Laurel Levine
http://www.articlesbase.com/anti-aging-articles/the-crucial-role-high-elastin-in-skin-plays-in-looking-younger-688904.html