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matty
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July 12, 2004 - 10:24 PM |
 
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I'm moving to SH next month and get eczema pretty easily unless I keep my skin moisturised and away from nasty soaps.
How easy is it to get hold of the following? And where from?
Aqueous cream (cheap emollient cream with nothing else added)
Dove soap
Evening primrose oil
I'll be in SH for two years, so should I ship loads out when I head over? |
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RaoulDuke
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July 12, 2004 - 11:54 PM |
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It's going to be hard to answer this...not many of us go out looking for these things. Labels in Chinese don't help much.
There are lotions here but selection seems to be limited. Might be good to bring a lot.
Soaps are high in selection and quality here, but I haven't noticed Dove.
No telling on evening primrose oil. If you can, before you come try to find someone who can translate that into Chinese for you. You'll find a lot of Chinese people willing to help you here, but their vocabulary often doesn't run to esoterica.
Consider the option of dashing down to Hong Kong once in a while. Selections are better, labels have english, and a blast of blueberry pancakes, polite people on the street, and decent books in English is nice once in a while.
My baby daughter had a tiny touch of eczema near her ear. The doctor at her clinic gave us a little jar of some kind of Chinese ointment that seemed to work really well. |
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matty
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shanghaibarry
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July 13, 2004 - 01:14 AM |
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Dove is available in China, in fact, don't have to worry about most of the shampoo or soap stuffs unless you are into niche brands or boutique brands.
Primerose oil kind of supplements are lacking... and if you are taking any type of multi-vits or other supplements, bring them along will save you time hunting for them later.. |
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heyhunts
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July 13, 2004 - 07:16 AM |
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lots of soaps availabe, i believe i've seen dove. shopping for vitamins and supplements here is a sad affiair - best to bring a supply.
in case you need them, stock up on your usual brands of sun block as well. almost none of the usual brands exists here! (unless i'm wrong? can anyone tell me where i can find coppertone, banana boat, nivea....?) my one tube of spf 50 for my son is like the most precious item in our house at the moment - the sun is unforgivavbly HOT in these parts! |
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wenlee
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July 13, 2004 - 09:40 AM |
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think i have seen bananaboat at Parkson at Huai Hai before. there are also a Jap brand that i used to use back in S'pore - spfF45 - at Parkson.
yeah - i can not seem to find evening primrose here. and a local friend of mine has never heard of it before. |
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heyhunts
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July 13, 2004 - 09:57 AM |
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thanks wenlee, i'll pop down there soon. should have bought more sunblock before coming back here last week. someone had a roll-on sunblock she picked up on a shopping trip to hong kong - envy envy! |
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comradeA
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July 13, 2004 - 10:05 AM |
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In the summer, you don't have to worry about your skin being dry... my skin is MUCH better here than in Canada... EVERYTHING is moisturized by the humidity... So I think you will feel OK with you eczema here. Whatever they don't have, you can probably pick up on a short trip to Hong Kong.
Some other pharmaceuticals may be problematic, however (like my eyedrops) but you still have friends back home, right?
Good luck with your move! |
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acujerjer
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July 13, 2004 - 02:17 PM |
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There are great Natural Skin doctors here in all the hospitals. You may want to use those 2 years in China as a time to heal your skin problems. Go to Long Hua hospital or one of the other ones that have Chinese Medicine and see the herb docotr there and get a good prescription. All natural.
Evening primrose, I don't know if I have seen it here but Primrose plant in Chinese is "Bao Chun Shu Zhi Wu" 报春属植物 Oil is "You" 油 I am pretty sure they got it here. But I don't know. My guess is that Evening Primrose oil is .报春属油. "Bao chun shu you." Any Chinese here wanna help? |
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edbreejen
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July 13, 2004 - 03:19 PM |
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Good coincidence is that the climate in Shanghai is quite moist throughout the year, so eczema caused by a dry skin doesn't get a lot of chance to develop here. But if you get it, i recommend the doctors at the Shanghai Zhongyi Yiyuan at Shimen yilu (Metro line 2, get off at Shimen yilu, head south down Shimen yilu , after about 700m to the right into a small alley just before you bump into Yanan elevated road. (the small alley doesn't look like a hospital entrance, but at the end of the alley is the entrance where the crowds gather at 5.30 every morning). Take someone fluent in Shanghainese and/or Mandarin with you to arrange the whole circus of registration, see the doctor, get a ticket (with your number in line that day), see the doctor again for the real consult, pay for the medicine, pick up the medicine somewhere else, etc. Logistics is hell in this hospital, but the doctors are good and often quite famous in Chinese medicine. A standard consult will cost you RMB 12.5-30, so that's quite affordable. When i had some skin problems 2 months ago, the doctor prescribed excellent (but somewhat smelly) ointment that cured the problem within 3 days. |
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