Alisha Minielly was mystified as rashes suddenly started appearing all over her body, including one that persisted on her left leg for six months.
She figured something in her makeup or shampoo could be the culprit and began switching to personal products labelled as having “natural” ingredients but that did not help. Neither did a steroid cream prescribed by a doctor at one of the walk-in clinics she visited because she didn’t have a general practitioner.
A patch test, which had a dermatologist placing small amounts of various fragrance mixes on her back and covering them with patches for five “very itchy”
