Eye Allergy

[tulip]

Maybe you have an allergy to some product that your new cleaning lady used.

[limewave]

Must have been an allergy. After two solid months of swollen, red, flaky eyelids (I looked seriously diseased) it's cleared up over the weekend. Weird.

[malkin]

That must be quite a relief!
Glad to hear it has left you.

[limewave]

Okay, so after two days of symptom relief it came back strong. ugh. Another doctor told me to use Aquaphor. That seemed to alleviate the symptoms, but again, that only lasted for a day or so.

SO, I just went to my naturopath doctor. She gave it a good look over. She is confident its a yeast infection, not allergies. She said she can actually see the yeast.
Treatment: A small variety of oral supplements to help kill the yeast, no dairy or added sugar, use teatree oil hair and facial products. Put coconut oil on eyelids at night before bed.
We will see if this works!

[Sky King]

wow, interesting, keep us posted. just hope you aren't allergic to coconut - like me

I am extremely allergic to Sagebrush and rag weed, both of which are in full bloom. I gave up years ago and do use nasonex - 2 x's a day through the month of Sept until the first hard frost. I also take a really old drug - rynatan - dirt cheap generic. Between the two I can now actually enjoy fall. I figure I am not on the steroid for that long so am willing to do it.

[OakLeaf]

In the past I've had good luck treating fungus infections with topical probiotics. If you're allergic to milk you probably don't want to use dairy yogurt, but maybe some unsweetened non-dairy yogurt or just open up a probiotic pill and suspend the powder in water to apply?

Good luck, anyway, that sounds miserable.

[limewave]

So. . . . treating this as directed is not working. It is getting a LOT worse: spread from my eyelids to circling my eye and is now creeping down my face. I'm going to the urgent care center first thing in the morning. Starting to get headaches from this . . .