Forum:

personal care

How do you Help with Eczema?

Thom Bri

pollinator

Posts: 744

Location: Illinois

156

posted 1 year ago

4
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I had an amazing retreat of eczema when the hot water went out in winter. I had to take very short, very cold showers for a few weeks. Eczema disappeared. It came back soon after the hot water was fixed.
The most useful 'lotion' I have tried was plain butter. Not shea butter, just butter from a cow.

Jeremy VanGelder

gardener

Posts: 1600

Location: Proebstel, Washington, USDA Zone 6B

992

I like...

posted 1 year ago

3
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Both my wife and youngest son have eczema. My wife's eczema seems to flare up when the wet season (9 months of the year) starts. I suspect it has to do with mold. Because she has gone off of gluten and all dairy before and she still gets eczema. But during the summer it goes away.

My son's eczema is year round. He is sensitive to dairy and gluten, which is why my wife went off of those things. It's a red rash on both of them. Gold Bond lotion helps a bit but never makes it go away completely.

Last night I picked a bunch of rosehips so that I can infuse an oil like Nikki did. I am hopeful that it will help.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Aimee Bacon

Posts: 25

posted 1 year ago

4
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Calendula Salve has always worked wonders for both of my girls.

Matt McSpadden

gardener

Posts: 2844

Location: Central Maine (Zone 5a)

1389

I like...

posted 1 year ago

5
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I just wanted to share two things.

Fungal infections can often look very similar to eczema. If things flair up due to heat or humidity, I would double check that it is in fact eczema.

Also, Dr. Ken Berry talks about how there is a connection between many skin conditions and carbs. If you are not getting relief from current treatments, perhaps consider a change in diet.

"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." C.S. Lewis
Visit https://themaineingredient.com for organic, premium dried culinary herbs that are grown, processed, and packaged in the USA.

Carla Burke

Rusticator

Posts: 9210

Location: Missouri Ozarks

4975

I like...

posted 1 year ago

6
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

A local friend's husband suffers badly from eczema, so years ago she got him off all store bought soaps, and makes a pure olive oil/goat milk soap, for him. It worked so well, she started playing with soap recipes, then branches into lotions & lotion bars, household soaps, etc, and now has a thriving soap & lotion business. When I'm not up to making my own, I but from her. You can get to her website by using BizzyBSoaps.com or Goldenautumnfarmstead.com

Maybe you could make your own soaps & lotions, too?

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

Jeremy VanGelder

gardener

Posts: 1600

Location: Proebstel, Washington, USDA Zone 6B

992

I like...

posted 1 year ago

4
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

My mother in law makes castile soap, which we have used for the past seven years. It might be worth trying to use something simpler. We use Shea Moisture baby soap for the kids in the bath. We are going to stop using that for awhile to see if that changes things.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Thom Bri

pollinator

Posts: 744

Location: Illinois

156

posted 1 year ago

5
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Seriously, try cool, or at most luke-warm washing. I am convinced, having gone back and forth many times over the years. I hate cold showers and love very hot ones.

There is some evidence that micro-organism imbalances play a part. One treatment I have read about but never tried is to use a very dilute bleach bath to eliminate staph infections. Sounds like the kind of thing that could go very wrong if done incorrectly, so I'd run it by a dermatologist before trying it!

Elanor Gardner

pioneer

Posts: 231

Location: Wisconsin Zone 5a

I like...