Kintropy In Action

We are a family with sensitive skin. Robert and I must change shampoo brands out regularly or get red ichey bumps in our scalps. I never use dryer sheets or we all break out in itchy red bumps. Well Miss Hannah has taken this sensitivity to a new level.

Hannah breaks out from almost all soaps and most synthetic fabric. But her main source of skin irritation is in latex. This substance is more common then most realise. It is in elastic. Her grandfather makes her slacks. He buys a latex free elastic to make them with. The clothes in the marketplace never let you know if there is elastic hidden anywhere on them. I usually can get away with buying her shirts. As long as it is 100 percent cotton. Well, last week I bought some cute shirts with hidden elastic in them. One had loops where the buttons feed in that were elastic and the sleeves had tapered ends with elastic. I fixed the problems with a pair of scissors and the ragged edges don't look too bad. I'll hem them eventually.

To top it off, we think the fabric on Hannah's wheelchair is causing her to react.

Her grandfather is working on slip covers for it.

If I ever get the time. I think I might want to start a campaign about clothing/fabric labelling. We can't be the only ones reacting to this stuff.

--Mom