What made my skin turn red and burn from head to toe?

[juntjoo]

I didn't take anything I've not recently taken. I took a bunch of vitamins as I've been doing regularly including selenium, vitamin c, magnesium, zinc, potassium, baking soda/borax, diatomaceous earth, and fish oil, and then I made a protein shake with protein powder, some veggie powder then these supplements: coq10, phosphatidycholine, ginseng, kelp, 5htp, collagen, chlorella, niacin, acai berry(powder), vitamin b9, rhodiola rose, and ashgawanda. This shake I make a couple times a week. But this combo of all these vitamins/supplements I've not done all at once which Im thinking has something to do with it. As I write this I'm cooling down but I was quite hot, and thank God not Itchy, just burning like as if I'd been hit with chili paste all over, and my skin showed it, red and slightly swelling.

Any opinions on what caused it?

 

[Shoshana]

I would drink some extra water, and stay cooler, and also, I would take note if you have had any contact with anything you don't usually...a different clothing, furniture, detergent, soap, anything.

I would want to check with a doctor about allergic reacitions, and whether you should have some benedryl or something else on hand.

 

[juntjoo]

I've heard of these reactions as allergies to certain things but I can't think of what I may have had contact with that I hadn't before.

The body is weird. Very mental. I remember maybe over a year ago I was doing a lot of self care things to deal with some systematic fungal infection, I think you'd call it, that was lasting months because I avoided anti-fungal meds in an attempt to find a more natural remedy and as it was nearing its end as I had cut almost everything out of my diet I experimentally grabbed a little bag of cashews and munched them down as probably my first meal in too many hours and had a very bad skin rash reaction, not like the fungal I'd been combating but more hives like, but I had never before nor after experienced any such reaction so I chalked that up to the mental factor as I remember before I grabbed the cashews I think I'd read about cashew allergies.

I strongly believe in the "mental" /placebo factor and that mental/physical is just an illusion(scientifically speaking) and to "mentally" approach life is to do so directly and thus in the most difficult manner so we very often search for 'physical' aids or supplements or supplemental strategies to heal ourselves. Not to say we can't find solutions -in fact I think of it as finding that right domino to knock over to get things rolling towards the outcome you seek. But my point is that the 'mental/spiritual' aspect is... not even an aspect as much as IT, the experience we're in here.

Lol excuse my philosophy but that's what I've been gathering in this painful journey. And it's weird how it's bringing me closer to a state of sobriety cutting out as many negative aspects of this experience as possible in order to... well I guess I'll know when I find it. Which I guess we all do once we leave here but we're all trying to get a piece of heaven before we really go there. Idk.

 

[juntjoo]

Oh, and thanks for the advice but I try to avoid otc meds as much as possible and I want to hurry up and finish all these supplements/vitamins as I work to get a good healthy natural foods diet/regimen going that will take care of all my medicinal needs. That is the plan at least.

 

[Mary]

I didn't take anything I've not recently taken. I took a bunch of vitamins as I've been doing regularly including selenium, vitamin c, magnesium, zinc, potassium, baking soda/borax, diatomaceous earth, and fish oil, and then I made a protein shake with protein powder, some veggie powder then these supplements: coq10, phosphatidycholine, ginseng, kelp, 5htp, collagen, chlorella, niacin, acai berry(powder), vitamin b9, rhodiola rose, and ashgawanda. This shake I make a couple times a week. But this combo of all these vitamins/supplements I've not done all at once which Im thinking has something to do with it. As I write this I'm cooling down but I was quite hot, and thank God not Itchy, just burning like as if I'd been hit with chili paste all over, and my skin showed it, red and slightly swelling.

Any opinions on what caused it?

It very well could have been the niacin. Niacin very often causes flushing - your skin will turn bright red and feel a little like burning, it might itch. It causes capillaries to dilate, and that is the flushing. It usually goes away in 40 minutes or so. It's harmless though it can feel uncomfortable.

Niacin helps me a lot with sleep. I take it before bed and in the middle of the night. I've taken it for a few years now, and so it doesn't cause flushing nearly as much as it used to. But I got to where I liked the flush because it usually meant I would be asleep soon

 

[juntjoo]

It very well could have been the niacin. Niacin very often causes flushing - your skin will turn bright red and feel a little like burning, it might itch. It causes capillaries to dilate, and that is the flushing. It usually goes away in 40 minutes or so. It's harmless though it can feel uncomfortable.

Niacin helps me a lot with sleep. I take it before bed and in the middle of the night. I've taken it for a few years now, and so it doesn't cause flushing nearly as much as it used to. But I got to where I liked the flush because it usually meant I would be asleep soon [/ entry into the war did not want any involvement in European Wars some kind of incident

Thank you! That sounds like it's probably it. I will look into it and probably be a bit more careful with the dosage next time. Strong stuff. And maybe it happened this time because I had my Shake in the morning for the first time actually on an empty stomach. Whereas before as I recall I have been making my shakes in the midday. After some food previously