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Three nights ago I noticed that after washing my hands they felt really sticky, almost like when you use the last paper towel on the roll and you get that glue residue on your hands. However, it wasn't the last paper towel so I figured maybe the liquid soap was really old and doing funky things so I rewashed with dish soap and again grabbed a paper towel. Once again, my hands got sticky as I dried them off. Thinking now that there was something wrong with these paper towels, I washed again and this time dried with a hand towel only to yet again find my hands sticky as they dried off. The stickiness only lasts 30-60 seconds, until the skin completely dries, but during that in-between time of soaking wet and totally dry they feel very tacky to the touch and my fingers will actually stick to each other.
The next day when I took a shower I noticed that the water was beading up on the skin on my arms. Sure enough, when I dried off afterwards I found that all of my skin is tacky to the thouch until it is completely air dried.
Today I shaved my legs and my skin felt almost like it had a layer of wax on it that kept catching the razor. The skin on my hands seems to be getting more sticky when they get wet. Water continues to bead on my skin when it gets wet. I asked my children if they can feel that my skin is sticky to the touch and they said yes.
This is affecting all of my skin now, including my face. I always put a moisturizer on my face after washing and it does not feel like my skin is absorbing it now, it just feels heavy and greasy since the lotion just sits there on top. I also tried putting lotion on my hands and it was not absorbed at all, just left my hands feeling very slimy and greasy so I wiped it off.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this or have any suggestions for what might be causing it? Thanks for any held you can give.
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Be conscientious about what you put in and on your body. Try to avoid genetically modified foods. Easiest way to do that (but expensive) is to eat organic and avoid processed foods. Research GMOs on the internet. If people stop buying GMO products, companies will change. It's up to us. It's bad science and we're the Guinea Pigs.
June 29, 2015 - 8:00pmThis Comment
I've always eat very health consciously and been eating all organic foods. no relief in symptoms and believe the solution is not as simple as a diet change =(
July 25, 2015 - 7:58pmany other help would be really appreciate it...
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I think it's impossible for us to try to determine the cause. My whole body is now permeated with the stickiness - inside and out. I'm trying to hydrate and eat clean so that food can be my medicine and hopefully keep my organs in good enough health. It could be transmitted by insect, virus, bacteria, food, water, something environmentally in the air getting on skin and skin goes into protection mode. Too many possibilities and no scientists helping here.
July 26, 2015 - 8:30amThis Comment
I think its important to find a common link. I think it is important to give as much information as possible. I will start. I dont think it is menapause because there are men and young girls who also have sticky skin. I thought there could be some link in the ingredient of acne treatment called Isotretinoin, also used for some treatments in cancer. There have been reports of girls who started to get sticky skin while on the treatment also a gent who was on treatment for cancer developed sticky skin. The ingredient is a retinoid, related to Vitamin A. The ingredient assists to reduce the production of sebum in the skin. I think sticky skin could be related to imbalance with the skin production of sebum. Do any of u perhaps have oily skin? It is also to reveal our age as the skin functions change at a certain age. I am still researching different chemical changes or things that could be causing this. Please share any meds u are on, or ages, etc please share, any info could help us all. I am 45 years.
July 26, 2015 - 1:00pmThis Comment
Me my boyfriend and two children have developed this and yes I think it has to do with sebum because we were dry and all of a sudden got really oily , we are loosing hair and got film on our eyes sticky feeling is constant when wet or damp when dry feel like we have wax coating over body and hair .. Here are our ages 23f,24m,1month old male ,4 f. This has been going on for two months or more we wake up eyes swollen with green coming out .. The only exposer we had was to pesticides ..I have to get the name of the other two but three that were in the house we were sstaying is ..hot shot for fleas and bedbugs . moth balls and boric acid , we have tried everything my daughters doc thinks maybe the pesticides /poisen did it but we have been out of the house for over two weeks and should be fine now that's what poisen control said.. well we are not ..I'm loosing my mind idk what to do about this or what this is idk if its contagious and that's the scary part I cry sending my daughter to school and at this point I may not send her back our lives have been totally turned upside down ...I'm supposed to be my children's protector and to have this going on with all of us got me freaked out and really scared ...I am an outgoing fun loveing person and this has turned me into a depressed person afraid to touch anyone or anything or even leave my house ... My mom has been a huge help because somedays I can't even get outta bed I'm so depressed .. Also my two big toes and pointer finger have turned yellow ..my mom don't seem to have it and she just keeps loving on us telling me she ain't afraid but I hope we don't give it too her or that my daughter hasn't given it to anyone at school no one has said it they think its contagious .. We got a derm apt but I'm nervous cause everyone says they don't help or laugh u out out of the office .. We know we aren't crazy and just want life to go back to normal .. I guess the if its contagious part is what hindering us the most ATM
September 12, 2016 - 9:57amThis Comment
That's all good advice but it has nothing to do with this sticky skin problem. I haven't eaten anything nonorganic for 47 years, never tasted anything containing a GMO product,do eat minimally processed foods like whole grain bread, and the like. And yet I have sticky skin.
July 3, 2015 - 9:27amThis Comment
Hank here (again)- These posts are very informative and we need all the info we can get. So, tell your tale of woe along with any success stories here. Please!
December 6, 2014 - 7:29pmI noticed a post that raised the issue of GMO agriculture and GMO food's possible involvement in our sticky skin problems. With that thought I'm asking all to speak up with any thoughts and/or information along this line. Examples-
Do you knowingly eat GMO food items?
Do you try to avoid GMO food?
Do you live in an area that has lots of GMO agriculture actyivity
Have you noticed any changes, better or worse, in allergy problems?
Have you noticed any changes in your neurological health-the senses?
Any other thoughts or comments?
Thyank you, Hank
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D. Baker here in the bootheel of MO. where all the humidity is, being in the Mississippi valley area. Yes, we have had a very noticeable increase in the level of allergies this summer. My Husband says it is due to all the rain this year and it is causing mold in the ground and everywhere else outside. I think he might have a good point.
July 18, 2015 - 9:21pmThis Comment
Be sure to go 32 minutes into this and you'll learn why we have more fungus in our environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ztZCVeC8g
July 28, 2015 - 9:17amThis Comment
This explains the cause of the sticky skin, but not what to do about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5y1WorkLJw
July 28, 2015 - 11:16amThis Comment