Calcium cured my psoriasis!
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>My son just was diagnosed with psoriasis and he’s just 20 yrs old. The derm. >has had him on three different kinds of topical ointments and now he said its >all over his body. Prior, it was just mostly on his elbows and some on his >hands. >I just read your note about calcium supplements and thought maybe it will work >for him. I’m new to this news group and new to Psoriasis for that matter. I’m >just trying to learn all I can to help my son who is a working college student >and this stuff is driving him crazy!!!
Sorry to hear about your son. The peak age of onset is actually in the 20s although a bit later. Is he seeing a derm with a specialty in psoriasis? If not, you should really try to find him one. Derm per se does not mean psoriasis expert. Also, what kind does he have? If it’s guttate, given his age, where he is, and the rate you indicate it spread you might look into seeing if he has an infection like strep as a trigger. In that case, getting rid of the infection is really part of treating the psoriasis. There’s lots of info available on the group and in places listed in the FAQ in my .sig As to the calcium thing. First and foremost, if one of his topicals is dovonex then talk with a doctor before you get involved with calcium supplements. Dovonex is a vitamin D analog which can increase the body’s absorption of calcium (excess calcium with overdose is the only significant risk with using it), which can have some nasty side effects over time. And not to sound overly cynical, but starting with when this person posted saying calcium cured their P (which they later had to back off of to some degree) in one thread, then tried to make the biologics out as failures in another, I’ve been bombarded with spam about coral calcium, which was not something I was getting spammed about before. I’m not accusing this poster of being involved with the spam, but certainly the spam indicates that coral calcium is being heavily pushed to those interested in alternative med as the latest cure all for everything. Remissions can occur for lots of reasons, and sometimes for none. The supplements may or may not have helped this person, but there are also lots of other alternatives people have said the same sort of things about. And you really do need to be careful if he’s using dovonex. You actually need to be careful and check out interrelations like that before trying any alternative med like supplements. Contrary to advertising, all natural doesn’t mean 100% safe. >Let me know if others have tried it also with good results. >P.S. Someone told me that Selson Blue (for dandruff) also helps. Have you >heard about this treatment?
A big thing to remember is that nothing works for everyone or the same for everyone, so one person’s ‘helps’ is another person’s ‘totally worthless’. Some people have reported it helping them others prefer other shampoos. You can check out the ng archives: http://pinch.com/skinny?skin=selsun+psoriasis best Kim The Psoriasis Newsgroup Resource FAQ can be found at http://www.psoriasisfaq.com but will also be coming soon (twice a month) to a newsgroup near you…
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SORRY about the double posting! I lost the first one and thought I had accidentally deleted it. Guess not! Best regards,
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My son just was diagnosed with psoriasis and he’s just 20 yrs old. The derm. has had him on three different kinds of topical ointments and now he said its all over his body. Prior, it was just mostly on his elbows and some on his hands. I just read your note about calcium supplements and thought maybe it will work for him. I’m new to this news group and new to Psoriasis for that matter. I’m just trying to learn all I can to help my son who is a working college student and this stuff is driving him crazy!!! Let me know if others have tried it also with good results. P.S. Someone told me that Selson Blue (for dandruff) also helps. Have you heard about this treatment?
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> P.S. Someone told me that Selson Blue (for dandruff) also helps. Have you > heard about this treatment?
I’ve been using the stuff on and off for years and it works nicely. Some- times I switch to a different treatment so my body won’t get too accustomed to it. There is a higher-strength Selsun available by prescription.. If I have a scalp lesion in only a small area, such as the top of my forehead, I might jump-start healing by squirting a few drops of Lidex (steroid in liquid form) on it. Robin
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>My son just was diagnosed with psoriasis and he’s just 20 yrs old. The derm. >has had him on three different kinds of topical ointments and now he said its >all over his body. Prior, it was just mostly on his elbows and some on his >hands. >I just read your note about calcium supplements and thought maybe it will work >for him. I’m new to this news group and new to Psoriasis for that matter. I’m >just trying to learn all I can to help my son who is a working college student >and this stuff is driving him crazy!!!
Sorry to hear of anyone, especially someone young, having a serious problem with psoriasis. >P.S. Someone told me that Selson Blue (for dandruff) also helps. Have you >heard about this treatment?
The active ingredient is (was?) selenium sulfide, you can get the same thing in Head and Shoulders Intensive Treatment. Yeah, I was even given a prescription-strength version of the same, years and years ago. Besides making you smell like the devil, it didn’t seem to have much of any effect on my psoriasis. If your son has seen such a quick spread, and it continues, there are some stronger conventional treatments that the doctor will probably suggest. Good luck to him! J.
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>( Just some cheap brand >called "Nature Made"
Since you’re already buying from them, you might be interested in signing up for their online discount thingy. Go to http://www.naturemade.com and set up an account for their rewards program. You enter the code numbers as requested and get a $7.00 coupon after you get enough points. I’ve gotten two of them so far, the first just from looking up the numbers from my closet. Best regards,
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>Just some cheap brand >called "Nature Made"
Since you’re already buying from them, you might be interested in their online rewards program. Go to http://www.naturemade.com and set up your password and stuff. Then you just enter the numbers as requested from the bottles in your cabinet and you get a $7.00 coupon in the mail, up to once a month. I have gotten two of them so far, the first just from looking at the bottles in my closet. Best regards,
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Yes, many people see an improvement when abstaining from dairy products. "Dairy products" have become synonymous with "Calcium", but there are sources of calcium other than dairy products! So that leads me to believe that something else besides the calcium in dairy products agravates psoriasis. If people see an improvement from avoiding dairy products, that does not mean it was the calcium that made their Psoriasis worse! I’ve had psoriasis for about 3 years and I’ve never had a remision period until I took the calcium supplements for a few months( Just some cheap brand called "Nature Made" You are absolutely right, my remision may have nothing to do with the calcium! Im not saying with 100% certainty that it was the calcium supplements that made my lesions vanish. Im just saying it is a possibility if the Coral Calcium really works (which I’m not even sure about) Im just considering that Coral Calcium might help psoriasis.
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http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/crabtree.html > These may shed some light on this p pathway. > Now, if those coral Ca hucksters had a good study > or two on real psoriatics i’d be surprised. As the > cat would be outa the bag and it would make almost > no difference for 98.2 of p sufferers at all. IMO > Btw, what company or brand of calcium were you taking? > randall
Some of the best information on taking calcium supplements I found on an osteoporosis website. I found one of the benefits of taking calcium tablets was the http://www.osteoporosis.ca/OSTEO/D02-02d.html#prey A warning about too much calcium though. I also found the following at:- http://naturalhealingdr.com/articles/calcium.html Calcium & Depression — Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
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I don’t know if it is just a coincidence or not, but I can’t attribute it to anything else! I started taking this calcium supplement 3 times a day and after about 3 months my lesions were gone! I did not have a severe case of psoriasis just a mild case (about 1 % of coverage) I did not change anything else in my life over those month than taking the calcium supplements! All I know is I started on calcium and 3 months later it was all gone! That was about 6 months ago and it is still gone…no lesions or scales. You might want to also read this little article about "Coral Calcium" Http://www.herbs4healing.com/New_Products/Coral_Calcium/coral_calcium.html also Http://www.1-coral-calcium.com/benefits.htm and no I do not sell Coral Calcium in fact I did not take the Coral Calcium, just regular calcium! You people might want to start looking into this!
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> I don’t know if it is just a coincidence or not, but I can’t attribute it > to anything else! I started taking this calcium supplement 3 times a day > and after about 3 months my lesions were gone! I did not have a severe > case of psoriasis just a mild case (about 1 % of coverage)
Hi xnxnxnxn, You one percenters crack me uP. Don’t get me wrong, i love your helP. > I did not > change anything else in my life over those month than taking the calcium > supplements!
Yes, but you don’t live in a vacuum either. > All I know is I started on calcium and 3 months later it was > all gone! That was about 6 months ago and it is still gone…no lesions or > scales. You might want to also read this little article about "Coral > Calcium" > Http://www.herbs4healing.com/New_Products/Coral_Calcium/coral_calcium.html > also Http://www.1-coral-calcium.com/benefits.htm and no I do not > sell Coral Calcium in fact I did not take the Coral Calcium, just > regular calcium! You people might want to start looking into this!
I think most of us have. Some who stoP using Dairy products (high source of Calcium) go into remmission also. How whould you explain that? If calcium tablets, pills or dietary factors helPed P much it would be in the medical literature. There are connections to Ca2+ that aren’t fullly understood. I’ll grab a few links. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&… http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&… BTW, some more from one of the contributers on this last one, http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/crabtree.html These may shed some light on this p pathway. Now, if those coral Ca hucksters had a good study or two on real psoriatics i’d be surprised. As the cat would be outa the bag and it would make almost no difference for 98.2 of p sufferers at all. IMO Btw, what company or brand of calcium were you taking? randall
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