PCOS Messages for January, 2002: Re: Boils

Re: Boils

From: anne (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:11:24 -0600 (CST)

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For hair loss get your ferritin levels checked they should be between 50-90, if they are any lower take iron supplements. Ferritin is your bodies storage of iron, you can have normal iron levels but low ferritin.

I experienced extensive hair loss in my twenties, I quit smoking and took every vitamin under the sun and it came back. In retrospect I now believe it must have been low ferritin. I've read that if you have reflux disease (as I do) you have problems absorbing iron from food, at that time in my life my diet was very poor I'm sure my intake level must have been low and then I wasn't absorbing much of what I took in and I had very heavy periods, and I believe the smoking didn't help either.

As I understand it boils are caused by staph infections. My son had them extensively, you would not believe the size or number of them. Staph is always present on our bodies but sometimes some people will get to a higher concentration point.

I posted earlier about how we got rid of my son's boils - antibacterial soap, washing clothes and bedding in hot/warm water, antibiotics when necessary. The month long antibiotic treatment probably reduced the concentration of staph that's living on your body back down to normal levels. I think that PCOS and weight are probably coincidental factors (but I could be wrong - I often am).

At Sat, 05 Jan 2002, Anonymous wrote: >
>I never knew that PCOS had an increased rate of having boils??? Has anyone
>heard that? I had a very bad problem with them when I was very overweight
> >250 at 5'5", and I went to a dermatologist who put me on a month-long
>program of Keflex. It knocked it right out of my system and I have never
>had them again. She called it folliculitis related to cellulitis?? Anyway,
>I also weigh less now 204, and I don't know if that has anything to do with
>it? Does anyone else have any ideas?
>Also, I am in desperate need of answers in regards to hair loss!! I have
>been losing alot of hair each day and I am noticing signs of thinning. Even
>my older sister was feeling my hair and she gasped because she remembers how
>my hair was so thick before and now you can see my scalp through it?? Does
>anyone know of a remedy? I tried hair vitamins, which made it look
>healthier, but not thicker! Thanks, SS
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