Are You Allergic To Your Clothes?
You can get allergic reactions from your favorite fabrics.
Kim Derby knows that, "sometimes around my neck, if I wear it around my neck, I will break out in a rash."
She's talking about wool. What allergists call a winter culprit.
" The fibers on wool are a bit rough." said Dr. Donald Brandon, "so as you're moving around and the fibers are rubbing on your skin surface. It's just like someone rubbing sand paper on you. It's going to cause a rash."
Another thing that can cause quite a rash, animal products often found in winter clothing.
" Animal hair," says Dr. Brandon, "can be highly allergenic. You can inhale proteins the animal hair gives off in addition to having some kind of reaction on the skin from the animal."
That reaction can get pretty serious.
Dr. Brandon cites breathing issues, swelling of the throat in addition to the rash.
A couple things that might help? Wash your clothes when you buy them. See a doctor if you get a rash. And when all else fails, buy cotton.
For more information on allergies to clothing:
www.everydayhealth.com
www.allergy.eyeonallergy.com
www.righthealth.com
www.lopup.com
www.shopzilla.com
www.cafepress.com
www.calibex.com
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Looking for the contact information for Howard Thompson. I have a friend who is being abused by Bank of America. Could you please email me with Howard's contact information.
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I just got 2 cashmire sweaters. I guess I will be scratching all winter. Ohy Vey...
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I was a trustee of an account at IBM Southeast Employees Federal Credit Union. On October 19, 2010 I deposited a large check from the deceased trustees estate. The next day I was called by an employee of IBM and verbally abused and baggered. I had to go into their Cypress Creek/Fort Lauderdale branch twice to give documentation, which I had already given. That same IBM employee humiliated me in front of other customers and I had to contact the trust attorney to get the funds released to another bank. The IBM attorney stated in an email to the trust attorney that the unprofessional employee made charges that I tried to embezzle $40,000 from the account for my own personal use. They stated that they had to protect the trust from me because I tried to steal money. This is how I found out that she had done such a thing. I was incensed and on November 1, wrote a 4 page letter successfully documentating how this was not so and that the employee is the problem and that she made up the whole thing in her hostililty and anger against me. I asked that they do an investigation and clear my name of such bogus and downright crazy charges. The attorney and the President of IBM division refused and sent a letter stating that it was my word against hers as to what I told her. I said, do you think I would go into a bank and tell them, "I want to embezzle money for my own personal use, can I have it now?"
It is clear that they know they were in the wrong. They believed reports that were not even verfied as true and acted upon those. Not one person ever asked me a question about the account to verify if what this employee was saying was true. Even the IBM lawyer represented the charges as true, with no proof or verfication from another employee. They said they will not clear my name and they did nothing wrong.
I have the letters and emails to/from proving my statements. How can I clear my name? I have since closed my accounts because it is IBM's policy to accuse and attack customers without proof, verification or sense of responsibility to admit when they are wrong. Beware of banking with IBM Southeast Employees Credit Union. Your reputation is not protected and internal policies will have you as a criminal without asking or verifying one iota of the accusation. The public needs to know that their reputation can be tarnished without accountability on IBM's part.
How can I have my name cleared?
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I was accused by an employee of IBM Southeast Employees Federal Credit Union of trying to take money out of a trust that I manage for my own personal use. The accusation was sent