Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2011/10

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Hypochondria Re: Warts and clarinet
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:18:28 -0400

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.com> wrote:

>
> Can the human papilloma virus be caught by airborne transmission?
>

Not that I am aware of. I was in a rather strange situation in lab, where
there was a person blending up wart biopsies across the bench from me, a
situation that can produce quite a bit of aerosol. Those biopsies were
preserved in sodium dodecyl sulfate (an ingredient in many shampoos and dish
detergent, also known as sodium laureth sulfate) and formaldehyde. The
problem is that my lesions developed while I was working in that lab. I
have one other known exposure when I was in middle or high school.
Apparently a case of warts showed up on mom's thighs and razors got
confused, but that was the mid to late 1990s. No lesions showed up. I have
historically had trouble with eczema. No lesions showed up after bad eczema
bouts.

I don't think most people in good health would have anything to worry
about. In particular, avoid open sores and maceration of infected tissues.
Watch out for people scratching these things and dander that falls from
that. Keep your skin intact.

> You're not supposed to say things like that to a hypochondriac like me!
>

I am sorry. I don't know where else to turn. I was hoping a public forum
might reach someone who can help. I may be or may have been particularly
susceptible. I know I was rather depressed while working in the hpv
laboratory and had been particularly so for a few years prior. Maybe our
family has historically been particularly susceptible. I don't know who all
I am related to. (Both dad's and mom's parents had at least a half dozen
siblings and somebody I think was one of eleven. I imagine that fecundity
would go back several generations. Some psychologist said something about
seeing one's relatives is good for mental health. In particular, she said
that it is important in raising a child that the child be your progeny for
the similarity in facial structure and so on. I didn't have anything to say
in response. Since then I have seen a lot of people that look a lot like
family members - deceased and alive. While, interesting to muse about the
relationship, I can't say that it has had any particular effect on making me
feel better, if anything, the attention paid seems more important than
similarity in facial appearance.)

Dad had warned me against biomedical laboratories when I was a kid, but the
warning never sank in, especially when I ended up in Nebraska with hubby and
frantically trying to find a job that seemed like it would support us. Just
my luck, the strain I have is probably some exotic African strain, given
that many of these samples were from Africa.

Peter says that overall health is more important and that many wart
infections resolve on their own.

I hope that I am hypochondriacal, but one physician agreed with me regarding
some genital lesions and given the lesions in the genitalia, I am very
suspicious about the lesions that showed up on my lips. I discovered a
crack in my lips later today, so it may not help to avoid playing the
clarinet, given that I have to smear grease all over my lips and things are
liable to spread that way. Perhaps less abrasive than a reed, but one still
wonders.

>
> Oliver
>
> > From: helen.jennifer@-----.com
> > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:01:48 -0700
> > To: klarinet@-----.com
> > Subject: [kl] Warts and clarinet
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I am sad. I can't play clarinet today because my lips are painfully
> > chapped. Last time I played clarinet with painfully chapped lips
> > the lips ended up cracking and not long thereafter, I ended up with
> > white spots and a couple strange bumps where the lip had previously
> > cracked. I concluded they must be warts because of the descriptions I
> > learned when I was working in an hpv lab. When I spoke with the
> > physicians about them, they said not to worry about them, that they had
> > some also. The first physician pointed out sebaceous glands on the
> > margin of her lip. The second pointed out sebaceous glands and
> > something that looked more like what I am concerned about (I have the
> > sebaceous glands, but they have always been there - my white spots
> > are different).
> >
> > Ugh.
> >
> > Has anybody worked with warts and clarinet?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Jennifer Jones
>
>
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