Hi all

Didn't want to hijack PP's sweet tooth topic so decided to start a new one.

Juls and WW were saying about the chlorine in the tap water and the smell when you run the bath.
I just wondered if anybody already out there has had problems after bathing if they suffer from ezcema?

I know I've mentioned my daughter being a sufferer before when I asked about getting Fairy powder out there but hadn't thought about the water!! :what?:

She always suffers when we go to my mother-in-laws (not as much as me though :clap: ) as the water is different there and thats only Plymouth so hate to think what another country might be like. Having said that her skin was lovely when we went to Malta a few years ago so who knows?????

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Thanks

Terri.xxx

Hey guys

Don`t knock the water here in Adelaide, when we came here 14yrs ago the water at times was a brown colour, (I used to look down the toilet,because the pan was white ) to see what the colour of the water was so I could wash the clothes.

Its a lot better than it was, but the ships that dock in Adelaide still won`t fill up with water, but I do agree the water smells foul at times, I never drink it I use rain water, boiled of course


bcg
Sheila

Hi Terri

I too suffer from ezcema and had no problems at all when I was in Adelaide (only two weeks mind).

I find that swimming in the sea really helps my ezcema (although it does smart to start with).

If/when we do emigrate I plan to stock up big time on my lotions and potions although I'm not sure what customs will make of it. :blink:

Steve

I've already started to make a collection of her creams etc and you saying about the sea water helping reminds me of when I was her age (8) and we were on holiday by the sea (not sure where??) one xmas and my ezcema was really bad so my mum made me go paddling in the sea in the middle of winter!!!!!! :happy45:

Terri.xxx

OMG Terri..thats tantamount to child abuse in UK!! :o ... i dont think the water up there is warm enough even in summer!!

as for drinking the water..i never drink tap water anywhere. I prefer mineral water, not coz its better but i like the taste

Just want to add that I have to scrub my kettle out regularly because it turns brown so quickly. Sometimes the water smells worse than usual, I think that might be in the warm weather when there's danger of algal blooms occuring so the water peeps put more chlorine in it.

Both my kids suffered from excema when they were little and we lived in the UK, but neither of them have ever had it here. Having said that I can't remember the last time any of us had a bath and lingered in the stuff - we just use the shower! (The baths are too small for a long relaxing soak).

I think I would agree with you there PP but have to say it did work.

Nadines skin isn't too bad at the moment, not as bad as my friends little girl who as a baby spent most of her time in hospital because her skin kept cracking open!

However she does tend to have a flare up after swimming at the pool with the chlorine in the water so just wondered how much trouble it was likely to cause.

I think being able to get out into the fresh air will help and also not having to spend so much of the year in trousers or tights for school.

She will have to go and stand in the sea for an hour each evening before homework and tea if it gets too bad. :bouncing smiles:

Thanks as always for the info guys. :thumbs up:

Terri.xxx

You'll have to get a house with a salt water chlorinated in ground pool.

Personally, I'm more woried about the Fluoride in the water. We're lucky where we are at the moment, but I'm getting a Fluoride filter fitted when I get to Adelaide.

I've got a 7-page document if anyone wants to read about it, but here's an small bit:



Sodium fluoride, a hazardous-waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminium, is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anaesthetics, hypnotics, psychiatric drugs, and military nerve gas. It's historically been quite expensive to properly dispose of, until some aluminium industries with an overabundance of the stuff sold the public on the terrifically insane but highly profitable idea of buying it at a 20,000% mark-up, injecting it into our water supplies, and then DRINKING it. Yes, a 20,000% mark-up: Fluoride-- intended only for human consumption by people under 14 years of age--is injected into our drinking water supply at approx. 1 part-per-million (PPM), but since we only drink 1/2 of one percent of the total water supply, the rest literally goes down the drain as a free hazardous-waste disposal for the chemical industry, where we PAY them so that we can flush their expensive hazardous waste down our toilets. How many salesmen dream of such a deal?


If anyone wants the full document, send me your email address.

Steve.

HHhhhhmmmm, I'm quite happy drinking the tap water myself.

Maybe I shouldn't be :happy45:

We've got friends out in the hills a bit, they drink rain water put through a filter (not actually boiled) and that's really tasty, very earthy.

Elaine