Deodorant did it 😱

I’ve been dealing with prurigo of pregnancy since about 16 weeks. It’s basically a rash that was randomly flaring up on my limbs. I tried EVERYTHING to get it to stop. Dietary changes, stopped using soap completely, made my own lotions so I knew what was in them, natural detergent and triple rinsing my clothes during the wash, etc. nothing was helping and eventually the rash became infected. So for weeks I’ve been dealing with that now too. 4 doctors and 2 midwives could not figure out what was causing the prurigo. It came down to basically “just pregnancy related and hopefully it goes away after”

What was interesting though, soon after the rash became infected, I stopped getting NEW rash and was just dealing with old spots.

Around the same time, I had switched from dove unscented deodorant to a natural aluminum free unscented deodorant.

While I was on vacation last week, my natural deodorant wasn’t really cutting it being that it was 90+ degrees, so I switched back to my regular one. BAM. Itching started again and little bumps flared up all over my body 😫

I still didn’t correlate it until a few days after I got home. Switched back to my natural deodorant after the heat wave moved through...and no more itching 😱

I’m sooo happy to have figured it out!! Still trying to get rid of the stubborn infection in some spots but overall it’s a million times better. I wouldn’t have thought deodorant could affect my whole body that way but clearly it did!