Category: Caseum

I wrote a book!!

In the last post of this strange year 2020 I want to share that I have written a book!! It is not my first book, but it is the first that I did not write for work reasons and that I’m publishing as Mariahelpsyou. It is available in Spanish and English, both in ebook and paper format. For every taste!

The possibility of self-publishing for free with Amazon had caught my attention a long time ago. Knowing the difficulties of gaining a foothold in the publishing world, it seems like a great option for all those who want to publish something that may not sell, or who are not professional writers. Taking advantage of the low social life imposed this year, I took on the task of compiling some of the blog posts into a book, which has the same title as the blog. It is a short book, with eight chapters, with the posts I thought were the most important to include. In the five years that have passed since I started writing the blog I discovered new things and I had to update several posts. So, in the book I wanted to include all that information together. For example, how I progressed with electrolysis hair removal, belonephobia, skin care, in dyeing my gray hair, in oral care…

The book is aimed especially at teenage girls and girls in their twenties. Every time I wrote a blog post, I mentally relived my past dealing with different beauty / health issues, and each time I thought: “If someone had told me this at the time.” I remembered how I felt so lonely and hopeless with certain problems, which apparently only happened to me because nobody around was talking about them, and that despite my many attempts seemed to have no solution. Some of them (like acne or gingivitis) may seem more common and not as serious. Others, like hirsutism or belonephobia, have really embittered much of my life. That is why the book is aimed at young girls who may living a similar situation. Although it has taken many years, I have found a solution to all these problems. And it has not been thanks to the many specialist doctors, or dentists, or hairdressers, or any so-called “professionals”, but only with my persistence and research on the Internet, losing a lot of time and money along the way. Whoever seeks finds (even if it is later than sooner). Although the book is aimed at young girls, of course anyone can benefit from reading it, at least one chapter, be it a man or a woman of any age.

And well, what better date to launch a book than before Christmas! I do not expect to earn lot of money with this, it would be enough for me to know that the knowledge I share arrived and helped someone who needed it.

Merry Christmas!!

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A small summary

Hello everyone!!

This month’s post is going to be a compilation of everything I’ve been writing about on the blog, since I started with three posts in 2015, until I decided to take it more seriously and write a monthly post as part of my goals for the year in 2017.

When I started the blog I wanted to share things that I had discovered by myself, especially through the Internet and from my own experience and that of others, over the years. They were doubts, questions that do not appear so much in beauty magazines and on blogs and YouTube channels, or that in the case of appearing I considered they had wrong or incomplete answers (such as taking the pill if you have acne or resorting to laser if you have hair on your face…). I really wanted to address problems and solutions that I thought were not being publicized enough.

In 2015 I explained how the irrigator (in its eco-friendly and cheap version, the Italian So-Wash) is the secret weapon that dentists do not want you to discover, along with the coconut oil + bicarbonate toothpaste. A toothpaste that also works as a deodorant. I also published the most visited and consulted entry of the entire blog, the one that talks about electrolysis hair removal. A post that I updated later showing the progress of my “do it yourself” results in this regard.

In 2017, I started talking about my experience with hirsutism and acne, I defended Roacutan and Ovusitol against the contraceptive pill and I talked about some simple and cheap measures like aloe vera, castile soap (Dr. Bronners), the importance of changing face towels and the pillowcase (better if it is made of silk) often. I have also talked about the importance of nutrition (the now fashionable smoothies) for the skin and the little-known mineral makeup.

Also in 2017 I dared to confess the existence of tonsil stones and anal blackheads, in the most eschatological blog post. I spoke again about hair, but this time about hair on the head: I was interested in henna as an alternative to dyes and allergies, but I was worried that it would not cover gray hair well.

I also talked about health issues, such as period pain, and how I try to control them by always keeping omeprazole and ibuprofen close at hand, in my emergency bag. Or the problem of belonephobia, so poorly treated by most health professionals and which causes serious trauma to many people. I still hadn’t found a definitive solution to this issue, but reading the book Overcoming Medical Phobias gave me some hope. Trying psychological treatments (hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming) gradual exposure (with images, videos…) and using the applied tension of the muscles could be the key. In my case, I also think that choosing a different site from which to draw the blood (perhaps the hand and not the inside of the elbow) could have an influence. I’ve been working on this for the past few months, and I’ve gone from feeling a bit dizzy just reading or watching videos about it, to being able to tolerate it (at least from a distance). I also think that the time of day influences, since for example I have the lowest blood pressure and I am weaker in the morning, which is precisely when the blood extraction procedure is done (and on an empty stomach). A reader advised me to use Buzzy and I have it ready to try in the future. What I’d really like to try though is the Seventh Sense Biosystems TAP. I keep writing them to see how to acquire it but it seems that at the moment only certain laboratories have it (I have also written to them and they do not respond). I hope it is only a matter of time, because it gives me the impression that there may be the solution. Other alternatives are the use of Vacutainer or butterfly needles for extractions. I had considered these alternatives, so I would also like to try. Anyway, hopefully in the future I can write a post explaining how I finally solved the issue. It would be my personal big hit on these issues, along with the discovery of electrolysis :))

In the blog I have also shared my personal manias, such as my rejection to long nails (which does not mean that I do not take care of my hands), my rejection of feet, of absurd fashion stupidities like ripped pants, my horror of intestinal parasites and of noise. And I have defended the use of the forgotten bidet, protection from the sun but not with creams, internal and external hydration and attention to the lymphatic system.

Some posts include novel therapies, such as the natural solution to myopia (including much cheaper glasses), a problem that I had previously discussed. In this regard, I recently read a piece of news about some drops to solve myopia developed by a university in Israel … I’ll be watching too. Hopefully ending myopia without surgery will my third hit :))

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Caseum and anal black spots: the eschatological post

Hello everyone! This month’s post will definitely be the eschatological post of the blog, because I’m going to talk about two topics that are not very nice and about which not many people talk about. It may happen to you and you do not dare to talk about it (as I said in the first post: everyone talks shamelessly about overweight, but there are many other problems about which people keep silent). It may happen to you and you do not even know it (I have a friend who sometimes coughed the balls of caseum and thought they were pieces of lung, WTF !!!). Or it may happen to someone in your environment. Anyway, let’s go to it.

What is caseum? It is the official name of stinky white balls that form in the tonsils. According to information I have collected from doctors + internet (many times I do not know who of both know more or less, because different persons and pages say totally different things), caseum is made up of remains of food, snot and other organic waste. If you often had angina as a child (as in my case) it is more likely that you will have “holes” in your tonsils, which are called “tonsillar crypts”. Where there is a hole, it is easier for the caseum to form. And it can not be avoided because every day we eat, and the mucus from the nose goes down to the throat. What can be avoided is to get sick so often, with a good diet high in vitamin C and good clothes. I have not had tonsillitis for many years.

The problem with caseum is that it accumulates in tonsillar crypts and can cause bad breath. Well, this is a controversial issue, because according to my experience and what I have read in many forums it does not cause bad breath outwards (that is, others do not notice it) but inwards (when the ball gets very big, it goes out alone from the hole and you swallow it, then you notice it). Or maybe it causes bad breath out when the ball is too big and goes out of the crypt.

What can be done and what I do is, every day when I use my beloved oral irrigator, point to the tonsils to “rinse” them and help remove mucus and possible food debris. This helps a lot, although I have not been able to eliminate the fact that I have caseum, it forms much slower and in lesser quantity. Also, once a week, I carefully squeeze them with a cotton swab to see if something comes out. We must be very careful with this, because it is a very delicate area. Once I did it with my finger (after washing my hands well and without long nails, obviously) and I got a wound, it started to bleed … so do it with a cotton swab and very carefully, also be careful not to swallow the cotton swab! :)))

So here is my advice: follow a good hygiene with the irrigator and check weekly. I have consulted with people of confidence and I really do not have bad breath doing this (obviously remember that you can also have bad breath for other reasons, such as cavities or gingivitis, but I already talked about it in another post).

Tonsil stones

Let’s move on to another, even more disgusting subject. Black holes around the anus. Yes, there are, it is in general accumulated oil, like that of the nose. Many do not know they have them because what is down there is a mystery to them (how many people have never looked at the whole “intimate area” with a mirror?). Apart from that, depending on your hairiness, you cannot see there very well either. Well, I tell you that it is very common to have pimples formed around the anus, in the same way that they form in the nose. It looks as if you have a granulated skin around the anus, sometimes there is a little black dot indicating that it is the head of the pimple. Do not confuse these pimples with fistulas, hemorrhoids and other anal problems that may require medical-surgical intervention. These are simply pimples, which most of the time are not problematic and you do not even notice you have them. I discovered them when I had intimate hair removal with electrolysis (there were not many hairs there, but I did not want to have any for hygiene reasons). Only once I had a quite big pimple very close to the anus and I could notice it when going to the bathroom. So I “cleaned” my skin there, just as I do with black spots on my nose :)))))) When I finished I put some betadine.

My advice is that you take them off only if they bother you, since it is not an aesthetic problem and normally, they are not problematic. If you want to do a “cleaning”, you can do it yourself, with a mirror, a little flexibility and, especially, very clean hands and nails! You can tissue to do the procedure and then put betadine. The same day you do it you may notice some discomfort because it is a very sensitive place.

I hope this post will be helpful, the next month I will post something more pleasant !! :)))

* UPDATE: There is already a laser surgery that removes tonsil crypts without removing the tonsils. For now, few ENT specialists perform this surgery, here is a video about it: