Is it really a Contact Dermatitis?

Good morningggg....

Kali ini bahas topik apa ya enaknya...

Aku terpikir sesuatu, something that really annoy me..

At first, let me tell ya,,, Since i was in kindergarten, I have had an allergic. 

Kalo aku makan seafood, especially ikan laut dan udang, kulitku akan terasa gatal. 

Kalo aku digigit nyamuk dan tergaruk,, Hmmmm, bakal berbekas sangat lama....

Aku dulu heran, kenapa cuma aku yang begitu, teman-temanku ga masalah. 

Ok, misalnya mereka digigit nyamuk, digaruk dan berbekas,,, case nya samalah ya kalo sampai masalah berbekas. Tapi, mereka cepet banget hilang bekas lukanya. But, me?!

Aku juga punya kulit yang extra kering (selain muka, my face is so much oily). Muka dan kulitku ga adil berbagi keseimbangan minyak ya.. Hmmm... 

Aku juga ga suka pake lotion. It is really annoy me. Aku ga suka. Jadilah kulitku tambah kering. 

But, I don't care about that till now.. Ok, till now, I mean till 2017 (so much years to feel uneasy, yeah!). Aku ga perduli tentang itu waktu SD, SMP, SMA, Kuliah, Kerja pun ya.. But now I do care. Why?? Let me think why...

The second case of my annoying problem about my skin is....

My doctor said I have a dermatitis. Dermatitis kontak. What is it?! I don't know about that before.

It happened last year when I had a holiday with my friend.

Waktu itu kita mandi di air belerang. I was so happy. U know lah ya the benefit of it for skin.

Jadi ceritanya tu, one of my friend told me to share towel because she didn't bring hers. (After that I knw that she brought it but left it in car,,,, hmmm).

I had no choice la ya because she is my friend. Meskipun sedikit merasa keberatan karena aku ga pernah sharing towel before, but she is my friend. So it was okey I think. Then we did do sharing towel.... 

After that holiday, one week after that, I saw something in my leg. Bintik merah yang terkadang terasa gatel. But, I never toke care of it. I forgot about a month or two or three month later, then I realised that it was not something to not care about. I went to the doctor at a famous-and-well-known hospital in this city. The doctor asked me the cronology. I told that I had an allergic about seafood. But, It was okey till now, my skin was never being like that. I also told about the "Belerang" story - swimming in to sulphur water and sharing towel. The doctor thought a moment and said something. "I don't know exactly what the cause is, maybe because of your allergy or something else. Kita butuh pemeriksaan lebih lanjut untuk tahu itu. But It is not really necessary to do, I will give you receipt. Let just see for the next 7 days". "So I need to come here again after a week doc?". "Kalo udah sembuh kulitnya gapapa ga dateng".  

After that, the doctor said why I didn't do anything for my skin for months. She was angry (Yeah, She is a doctor so she should be).  

Then I asked again, "So dok, diagnosa nya apa untuk sementara?". She said that I had a contact dermatitis.  I googled about that a moment I left the doctor's room. 

But, I was happy that my skin recovered and healed after a week. Then, the scar was the problem. I went again to the same doctor. She said, "even I take care of the scar now, Ok, It will be gone but,,,,". I heard a "but". "But what doctor?", asked me. "Saya pikir bakal percuma kalo kamu hilangin bekas nya sekarang karena kalo kamu ga jaga makan (she means my allergic to seafood) and ga ngehindarin sumber alerginya (still don't know what the cause is), bisa balik lagi itu". "Hmmmm, It is okey doc, I need to make this scar disappear atleast for now". She gave me the receipt and it was such a good receipt (Yeaah sebanding sama cost nya lah ya). My scar disappeared after a week. I didn't eat seafood for long, a very long time, maybe about 6 months. Yeah!!

But you know, My sacrifice -to not eat seafood- didn't last long. Hmmmm, I thought that it was okey to eat that time. I ate a lot and you know lah the result. Kulitku mulai memerah. It happened when i went to the another city becuase of job. My team really like seafood. We ordered seafood almost everyday. First I didn't eat any. Tapi kalo sudah tiap hari terhidang,, jadilah pertahanan goyah dong, makanlah aku.... Yeah jadilah mulai lagiiiii....   

After that, kembalilah aku jaga makan, aku ga makan seafood for months,,, tapi ini berbeda, meskipun aku ga makan seafood, kulit ku kembali memerah. Aku heran lah ya kenapa. The doctor's statement appeared in my mind, "itu bisa kembali lagi, harus dicari tahu sumbernya". Apa karena cuaca kupikir, airkah, tapi kenapa this kind of allergic appeared in my age. Memang sih artikelnya bilang bahwa sebagian besar penderita muncul alerginya saat masih kanak-kanak dan akan sembuh ketika dewasa. Kenapa aku malah muncul ketika dewasa. Yeah ada juga artikel yang bilang kalo ada juga case yang muncul ketika dewasa. So, kenapa aku salah satu dari sekian dikit (what a phrase) persentase orang itu ya, I was desperate for that time, asking about that. But, aku harus terima lah ya,, Everything happen for reason. Yah ada reason lah untuk semua ini, pikirku. Aku harus positive thinking lah ya seenggaknya.

You need to know that i am so much care about hygiene because of my allergic (since that). I wash my hands so often a day. I change my soap to the antibacteria soap. I depend on handsanitizer. I thought if i done that thing, this allergy would be so much better. But It doesn't effect any good thing for me. I trace back my old behaviour. I think it was okey before, even if i didn't depend on "antibacteria thing". I need to change my behaviour (about sanitizer thing). I have done that. I think I can do that slowly. I also searched articles about the danger of to much using handsanitizer and so often washing hands. I also searched about the danger of "antibacteria soap". I searched about the benefit of bacteria for body and environmental. 

Jadi ceritanya tu di depan kantor, ada seseorang yang mind nya sedikit bermasalah (U know what i mean kan). Intinya dia berteman lah dengan bacteria and friends because of that. But, you know,, dia ga pernah sakit. So much fine till now. Aku pernah baca artikel yang menyatakan bahwa sakit itu bukan disebabkan oleh bakteri and friends, kalo orang having good mind, always be happy, dia bisa menjaga dirinya terhindar dari sakit. Kayak itu orang, meski dia ga pernah mandi dan makannya jorok, dia ga banyak (or maybe ga ada, i don't know) pikiran. I don't mean it for bad but for a lesson.

Terus, petugas kebersihan, dia kan pasti selalu ketemu sampah,, thats their job. Thats their environment. But, they can handle it. Maybe their body udah used to kali ya,, mungkin benar juga. 

So, my resolution to not afraid of the bacteria and friends. To reduce using handsanitizer.

I can do it!!!