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I’m itching in my underwear. Have since last night. I think it may be that I used too much soap in the laundry yesterday, in an effort to finish off the container amongst the two loads. Either that, or I was too rough with the plastic “loofah” or washing-sponge or whatever you actually call it. I thought maybe I didn’t rinse enough in the shower, so I re-rinsed myself before bed, put on some hydrocortisone, changed underwear. The itching is better today, but it is still there. Perhaps it’s still there because I’m thinking about it. I may go buy some new underwear at Filene’s Basement after work. I needed some new underwear anyway, and this is a good excuse to finally motivate myself to get some, I suppose.
I worried that maybe the itching was because I handled some poinsettia leaves, and the sap is supposed to be an irritant. But then I realized that I had showered and put on my underwear before I handled the leaves. I was also worried because the dog had gotten to the leaves when he was in the bedroom. There were a few leaves on the plant which were low enough for him to pick off. He’s doing okay though, and didn’t get into any sap–just leaves, and has gotten into the leaves before with no ill effect. I was worried about that though, so I went on the internet, and read that so many kinds of hybridization have taken place in poinsettia breeding that the stuff they sell you is only considered “poisonous” because the sap can be an irritant.
I’m not entirely worried about this (at least, I’m not freaking out) because I figure it’s either the natural irritation of laundry soap or shower gel or soaping up too hard in the shower. I may have even taken care of the first source of my itching, but caused additional itching by either re-cleaning myself too hard, or the fact that I partly dried myself with toilet paper, and there may be little bits of it down there acting as an irritant.
Either that, or it’s the weather.
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