{"id":33,"date":"2007-09-19T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T08:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solveeczema.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/19\/not-an-allergic-reaction-to-detergents\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T08:12:59","slug":"not-an-allergic-reaction-to-detergents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solveeczema.org\/eczemablog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Not an allergic reaction to detergents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eczema from detergents &#8211; per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solveeczema.org\">solveeczema.org<\/a> &#8211; is caused by how detergents affect skin membrane permeability and function and is not a true IgE-mediated allergy to detergents. In fact, very few people (if any) have a true allergy to detergents, most detergent allergies are actually allergies to product enzymes and additives.  Sodium lauryl sulfate, known to be highly problematic for people with eczema, is a detergent analog of a surfactant our bodies make and use to regulate membrane permeability, among other things.  I&#8217;m not sure we even could be allergic to it in the true sense; again, the eczema comes about from how it affects the skin membrane.<\/p>\n<p>Thus you could not test for detergent reactivity with traditional allergy blood tests.  Initially I sometimes used the word &#8220;allergy&#8221; in regards to this reaction, with some justification, but it&#8217;s not a true allergic reaction to the detergents themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eczema from detergents &#8211; per solveeczema.org &#8211; is caused by how detergents affect skin membrane permeability and function and is not a true IgE-mediated allergy to detergents. In fact, very few people (if any) have a true allergy to detergents, most detergent allergies are actually allergies to product enzymes and additives. Sodium lauryl sulfate, known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"et-pb-post-main-image":false,"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":false,"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":false,"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":false,"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":false,"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":false,"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"solveeczema","author_link":"https:\/\/solveeczema.org\/eczemablog\/?author=2"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Eczema from detergents &#8211; per solveeczema.org &#8211; is caused by how detergents affect skin membrane permeability and function and is not a true IgE-mediated allergy to detergents. In fact, very few people (if any) have a true allergy to detergents, most detergent allergies are actually allergies to product enzymes and additives. 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