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Can Eczema-type skin conditions be cured?
Eczema has reached new pandemic levels with pharmaceutical
medication not delivering relief as it used to. As a result, people with eczema
symptoms are turning in desperation to alternatives to try and alleviate their
conditions.
The pattern is as follows:
You have a dry and itchy skin, toddle off to the doctor or
specialist who prescribes a pharmaceutical product that might or might not suppress
the condition for a while, just for it to flare-up with a vengeance as soon as you
have completed your course of medication that needed a second bond to afford
(normally between the first and second bond repayments) or your favourite
trigger, stress, rears its head.
Sounds familiar?
Then, when you ask your medical practitioner why you get eczema,
a host of reasons are given without making any sense, right?
The reason for this is because, after all the years of
treating the condition known by different names depending on where on your body
it should choose to appear, no-one really knows why the body of eczema
sufferers reacts to stimuli by causing a low grade anti-inflammatory response.
This is a typical symptom of all auto-immune conditions.
The medical fraternity has not yet found a cure for eczema
and what they seem to present as a solution is no longer providing any relief
to patients.
The best solution for eczema sufferers is to take control of
their situation, educate themselves on all aspects of their condition, and find
a balanced way of managing it.
The following suggestions are from personal experience and
investigations from thousands of individual's blogs and public forums. People
may differ from my opinion, but it is just that, my personal opinion and
hopefully some eczema sufferer might find a light bulb moment on this blog post.
1. Find your
triggers
Whether it is food, DNA related, emotional or environmental,
at least from here you can start to eliminate the triggers.
1.1 The Food trigger
Because food is no longer food (with all the preservatives
and additives and mixing up of genetic GMO) be careful what you put in your
body. Even milk, eggs or meat from animals fed with GMO modified products can
trigger eczema and should be avoided if possible or at least used sparingly. In
my case I found no problem with natural soybean, but GMO soybean turned out to
be almost lethal (Shucks! they even started putting it into my favourite brand
of chocolate!!!).
All commercially available maize and soy products in South
Africa contain GMO and should be consumed with caution. Most bread, cookies and
breakfast cereal contains maize or soy. Soy is also a hidden ingredient even in
sweets such as chocolate and ice-cream, so check those labels as well.
Read the labels of all processed and canned goods and avoid
those with too many ingredients you cannot pronounce.
Eat as fresh as possible or grow your own food garden if you
have a patch of earth available to do so.
This might seem expensive eating, but compared with what you
will eventually save on eczema products and discomfort, it is doubly worth your
while.
1.2 Allergy triggers
There is a whole debate about where the recent (30 years or
so) allergy pandemic comes from, but that is a whole other issue. Get yourself
tested, even if it is only a skin allergy test at a clinic. Make sure you know what
you are allergic to in order to avoid those triggers. It makes for a far better
life when you know for sure what to avoid.
1.3 Environmental Triggers
Not much one can do about these, but note that eczema on the
hands, in the face and neck can be triggered by contact with simple things like
paper or soap. Protect your exposed skin and do not touch your face or neck
while using known skin irritants.
Pollution is another eczema trigger and goes hand-in-hand
with asthma. Impure air or smog is one of the great triggers, especially in
children. In the UK, scientists tested female subjects that had washed their
faces and cleaned off as many chemicals as possible before going to work. At
the end of the day analysis showed that they had collected more than 320
additional chemicals on the skin of their necks and faces from their environment
at the end of the day. Scary!
Then comes stress, the number one trigger, overlooked many a
time by doctors and missed by most eczema sufferers.
Most people have ways of dealing with stress. In
eczema-prone people the stress levels can show in the skin. This is apparently
because of the increased level of stress hormones in the blood stream causing
the auto-immune flare-up.
1.4 Family History
If you have a family history of eczema or asthma, it is
highly likely that you will inherit the condition (thank goodness government
has not found a way to tax this kind of inheritance).
These can be managed, but will always be an underlying
threat to a comfortable skin.
The main DNA related eczema-type condition is called
Psoriasis and thus far can only be managed.
Unfortunately, again, it walks hand-in-hand with the same
type of triggers as eczema with the main trigger being stress.
2. Find a
treatment regimen that works for you
There are many products, means and ways for eczema sufferers
to alleviate their specific symptoms. Here are but a few.
2.1 Health Care Practitioners
If you choose the main stream medical method, find someone
who will spend time with you and answer your questions or at least try and
assist you in finding something that works for you.
Stay alert, for eczema can become a serious and debilitating
threat and certain skin conditions left untreated can become life threatening.
If the regular bout of eczema does not abate with your normal treatment or
worsens rapidly, see a medical practitioner.
If the eczema area is open, bleeding, swollen or hot to the
touch, see a medical practitioner immediately. A fever also indicates some form
of infection and you may need supportive medication.
2.2 Be aware of Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome
Many people have reported that their eczema does not respond
to topical cortisone or steroid containing products after a few cycles.
The resulting withdrawal symptoms are called TSW and simply
mean that the body seems to see the steroids and cortisone as toxins that are
then removed through the skin, causing severe flare-ups that do not settle with
more exposure to corti-costeroids.
In this regard, most TSW sufferers have chosen to wait it
out, allowing the skin to do its own thing, no matter how difficult or
uncomfortable it is. Over time, it gets better and the skin eventually settles
down, with only the odd flare-ups now and again.
This is my wife's eleventh year after TSW and she has been
flare-up free for the last 5 years while managing her condition.
2.3 Moisturize
In a lot of cases, an effective moisturizing regime takes
care of the eczema as well as the dry, itchy skin.
Best topical products to use seem to be as natural as possible.
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Olive oil if you are not allergic to it.
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Plain coconut oil or cream is used as the
preferred natural moisturizer.
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Baobab and Jojoba oil is just as good if you are
not allergic to nuts.
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Pharmaceutical grade petroleum jelly (sterile
and non-carcinogenic, also called White Vaseline in South Africa), as it locks
the skin's own moisture in. It is just a bit of a messy business.
Other sufferers have found their own lotions and potions
that work for them.
The Axhilirit Eczema Cream (oleoresin, coconut, baobab,
jojoba mix) was specifically developed to suite my wife's condition.
Avoid products with flavourants, fragrances and any
artificial or chemical additives.
Use natural soaps wherever possible. Natural soaps can be
found in Pharmacies and Health Stores.
2.4 Go Cold Turkey
Some eczema sufferers have decided to stop all treatments -
not using ANYTHING on their skins, going on detox diets and allowing the skin
to 'do its own thing'. This does not work for everyone. In a busy society the
world does not stop for people to sort out their skin problems, with many an
eczema sufferer having to take time off for prolonged treatment at a facility
or change careers in order to manage themselves.
2.5 Try different products
There are many products on the market for eczema-prone skin,
pharmaceutical, natural and cosmetic. In many cases it takes years for a
sufferer to find something that works for their specific skin.
In our search seeking a product my wife's skin responds to, we
have found that some products worked well, but would disappeared off the market
in due course.
I was fortunate enough to (accidentally) develop the natural
products that worked best for her skin, so I trust that she will have this
available for as long as she should need it.
3. Rural meeting
Cosmopolitan
In South Africa, many people work in urban areas, learning
and experiencing many new things including how to manage eczema appropriately.
Then, when it is holiday season and they return to their
traditional roots, they take home with them the new knowledge on how to deal
with issues, including skin issues.
It is with joy that I hear about clients going home and
sharing their knowledge with their family members. When we receive the
feel-good stories, I know that my mission of assisting people to open their
minds to find solutions to their skin problems has been accomplished.
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Note: The above is based on the
personal opinion of the writer. The relevant information has been compiled from
20 years of personal experience and feedback from clients. Contact a healthcare
practitioner if eczema-type symptoms persist.
