Yellow skin

[spotted dog]

Hi... has anyone got very pale yellow skin on face? I look as if I should be wearing a shroud in the morning, I've never had rosy cheeks, always been pale, but now yellow looking!!! Spotty

[Baraka Obam]

What is it makes the ASIAN people yellow, I TURNED a yellow tint after getting this, been tested for all the hepatitis strains several times. I wondered if this pathogen has a history in the production of skin color, white, red, yellow and black!!! Impossible I guess but its kinda funny my daughter was asked if she was part Asian

[tcmgpt13]

I do believe that the yellow color of your skin indicates that whatever is going on with you now is lodged in your spleen. In TCM the spleen (to include pancreatic function as well as spleen) is yellow, so any dysfunction would show up with yellow skin, sometimes even involving the whites of the eyes. Each of the organs is assigned a color in TCM, so if the skin is excessively red it can indicate heart disorders, liver is green and if the liver and spleen both are effected it can be brown in color. Kidneys are black (all those black circles around the eyes is related to kidney function and is often seen in those with allergies). Blue/purple would indicate sluggish circulation (think that's true I believe even in Western medicine) though not a particular organ. White is the lungs and I have seen people who have white circles around the skin of their eyes.

[Kritters]

So, basically this could all indicate where these critters are wreaking havoc...or have settled. Probably invading more than one area of our bodies as they go.

Wouldn't it be awesome if standardized medicine AND big pharma would stop being so greedy and incorporate TCM and other alternative medicine as the NEW STANDARD? Even if it would be too much for each individual to have to learn (medical school, naturopathic, chinese, indian...) there should be TEAMS rather than individuals, who would look at the patient and discuss between them what's indicated as the best treatment. I know there are doctors in some hospitals which are incorporating alternative medicine but it should be STANDARD in MEDICAL SCHOOL.

Kritts

[Sadsack]

Kritters -
Is your urine darker than usual?
Yellowing of the skin and sclera (whites of your eyes) is called "jaundice" and is caused by a build up of bilirubin. Red blood cells are continually being created and broken down. When the hemoglobin is released from these RBCs and the iron removed, the metabolite is bilirubin.
If everything is working properly, bilirubin gets further metabolized ("conjugated") and removed from the body through feces (that is what gives feces the brown color).
Many conditions can interfere with this process. The more common, as Baraka rightfully pointed out, is liver disease, as that is where some steps of these metabolic processes take place. Another cause can be blockage of the bile ducts, where the congugated bilirubin is blocked from entering the digestive system.
Bilirubin can also build up too quickly to be processed because of hemolytic anemia, where the RBCs are destroyed very quickly, resulting in anemia.
The liver is the major detoxification organ in the body. All blood passes through it, and many of the metabolic processes that break down toxins which are later excreted occur there. Morgellons seems to be an affliction of toxins, and MANY of us have liver problems.
You can try taking milk thistle along with 1000 mg of Vit C.
Anyway, you should have a liver function done as well as bilirubin count.
SS
PS - normal differences in skin color is caused by pigmentation rather than "disease"

[Kritters]

Originally Posted by Sadsack

Kritters -
Is your urine darker than usual?

Gettin' kinda PERSONAL, ain't ya???


I don't think so. Sometimes it's darker than others. I have no doubt I probably have liver problems. I keep looking at my eyeballs to see if they're turning yellow, but they're pretty much okay except for the occasional redness and gook (if infected) And sometimes I have a stronger urine odor than others...usually when I have a herpes flair or something. It's getting really tough to pinpoint all these different things. I'm going to have to hire someone to follow me around with a pen and pad.........

Hey I always wondered what gave feces the brown color!

Good info SS... who can be expected to know all of this? OH! I KNOW....DOCTORS!

Kritts

[Sadsack]

Kritters -
You are having a ball with the "enhanced" version....guess I should get more creative.... as Carla would say....

SS

[Katinka]

Gilbert's syndrome

Gilbert's syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My son has this if he drinks alcohol or is very tired his skin turns really yellow and also his white of the eyes.
Our doc said this disease if quite common as other 4 or 5 boys in our town have this. He should "grow out" of this when he gets older.

[sarothra]

Hi, I'm new here and would like to talk about using heat on these lesions and "normal" skin too. I used a pimple zapper "Zeno" which delivers a very intense heat at the tip. I would feel something in my skin "collapsing" - I think it's the resin, the silicon, or polymers in the fibers - I believe they can melt, like plastic, even though they cannot be burnt. I am seeing forms appear in my skin - the calus is actually a form of a parasitic nematode, 2 to 3 inches in length, with a body about 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch wide. This thing "appears" on heated skin. It raises up, like a hive, and if you look closely you will see a form with 3 tentacles at the "head" - where is sucks your blood, a body, and "legs" which are not really legs, they are the "spines" it uses to stay attached. This is NO DELUSION FOLKS! It is the most freaky thing I have ever seen. I just saw these appearing yesterday as I was using my hair dryer to heat up the sock areas of my ankles. YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TOLERATE THE BURNING PAIN OF PLACING A HAIR DRYER ON AREAS TO SEE THESE FORMS APPEAR. I am very excited (and horrified) by this discovery and need to talk to other Morgellon sufferers about this. I have emailed Dr. Randy Wymore at Okla. State Univer. Center for Health Sciences. I think this discovery is CRITICAL TO GET OUT TO OTHERS ! Please try to hair dryer (stand the pain, it's only the infected areas that are burning - your skin will not be damaged - I have been doing this and my skin is all right) - Take the pain, and let is boil that plastic - if you hold the hair dryer on there long enough you will actually feel the sizzling bubbles in the plastic.
IMPORTANT: I have found a website from Thailand saying that they feed parasitic nematodes on a diet of polymers (silicon) and animal fat. I believe that is why they are composed (at least mostly) of synthetic material. We are still dealing with a parasitic nematode, but one with synthetic characteristics. BUT plastic DOES melt. Try it.

[Sadsack]

Sarothra -
Dr. Wymore has described almost exactly what you are saying about the callouses. On the YouTube video from last year's Austin Conference he describes the "underside" of these callouses as protrusions or tentacles (my words) that appear to anchor (again my word I believe) the callouse in place.
I'll try to find the link to that video.
SS