dead sea salts, vitamin D, or petroleum jelly?!

[Lauren]

I recently tried all 3 aftert reading varioue success stories. My elbow is Totally clear after about a week. I have no idea what worked! I am also terrified to stop any since I'm afraid the patch will come back! Any other successes?

[kmb786]

Hi,

I'm guessing it's the dead sea salt because I am taking Glucosomine Sulphate which include Vit D3 and also use Petroleum Jelly but still have flareups.  Recently someone suggested I try the sea salt whch I've not tried yet.

[Lauren]

Thanks. In addition to taking the vitamin D orally (based on lots of blogs saying it worked for people) I read someone's post who would break open a capsule and apply the oil directly to the skin. So this is what I was doing and just like her the spots literally peeled off over the course of a week and are GONE. But since I did several other things at the same time I'm not 100% what helped although I am inclined to think it was the D since I'd used petroleum jelly before, which got rid of the dry skin but not the underlying bumps and raised red skin -- that is was it totally gone now. I was very careful when doing this not to exceed 2000 ui/day in combined oral and surface application. Anyway, glad it's gone for now and am going to watch it like a hawk for the next while to see if it comes back. Then I'm going to try the D again without doing anything else and see if it works again.