When in doubt, throw it out.
I have been told that in drug treatment circles they have the saying "Change your people, your places and your things." This works but not for the reason most people seem to think.
People seem to think drug addiction is a bad habit and changing your people, your places and your things helps you break old habits and form new ones. While not incorrect, I don't think it really serves to explain why this works.
In my mental models, most addicts are literally self-medicating for unrecognized health issues. Changing your people, your places and your things can break the cycles of exposure to whatever the hell is making you sick.
Trypanosomas are really nasty and when I am experiencing parasite die-off, I sweat out really vile god-knows-what. At some point, I began treating my clothes as disposable and I buy cheap t-shirts (etc) and then throw them out when they are too gross to keep wearing.
I found that when trypanosomas die, they just poison the ever loving hell out of everything and no amount of washing fixes it. I just began liberally throwing shit out because if I didn't, keeping it would actively make me sick.
I went through two periods of a few months each where I would wear an outfit once or twice and then throw it out because I was sweating out such toxic garbage so heavily that the outfit was ruined and making everyone sick after one or two wearings.
The first round of that I was working a corporate job. The second round of it, I was homeless in downtown San Diego.
It got better from there where clothes lasted longer, but I continue to treat my clothes as disposable for the time being.
I was on a CF list years and years ago and someone was saying "Oh, god, my son with CF sweats out such nasty stuff, his clothes smell HORRIBLE and no amount of bleach makes it okay again. What can I do?" and I bit my tongue and did not say "THROW IT OUT." I knew I would be run out of town by a lynch mob if I did, so I didn't bother.
If you can find a better answer, more power to you. This blog is descriptive, not prescriptive. This is how I handled it. You do with that info as you see fit.
People seem to think drug addiction is a bad habit and changing your people, your places and your things helps you break old habits and form new ones. While not incorrect, I don't think it really serves to explain why this works.
In my mental models, most addicts are literally self-medicating for unrecognized health issues. Changing your people, your places and your things can break the cycles of exposure to whatever the hell is making you sick.
Trypanosomas are really nasty and when I am experiencing parasite die-off, I sweat out really vile god-knows-what. At some point, I began treating my clothes as disposable and I buy cheap t-shirts (etc) and then throw them out when they are too gross to keep wearing.
I found that when trypanosomas die, they just poison the ever loving hell out of everything and no amount of washing fixes it. I just began liberally throwing shit out because if I didn't, keeping it would actively make me sick.
I went through two periods of a few months each where I would wear an outfit once or twice and then throw it out because I was sweating out such toxic garbage so heavily that the outfit was ruined and making everyone sick after one or two wearings.
The first round of that I was working a corporate job. The second round of it, I was homeless in downtown San Diego.
It got better from there where clothes lasted longer, but I continue to treat my clothes as disposable for the time being.
I was on a CF list years and years ago and someone was saying "Oh, god, my son with CF sweats out such nasty stuff, his clothes smell HORRIBLE and no amount of bleach makes it okay again. What can I do?" and I bit my tongue and did not say "THROW IT OUT." I knew I would be run out of town by a lynch mob if I did, so I didn't bother.
If you can find a better answer, more power to you. This blog is descriptive, not prescriptive. This is how I handled it. You do with that info as you see fit.
