I suffered from eczema for over 30 years! In May 2010 I had enough of this awful condition and eczema creams that kept on ruining and thinning out my skin! I decided to find a natural solution! I searched online and found some amazing information from people who have cured themselves from the same disease! Their success inspired me and in May 2010 I embarked on a journey of a total diet change...
.... and 4 months later my eczema was gone!
.... and 4 months later my eczema was gone!
I am not a doctor. This blog is not intended to cure or diagnose. I am simply a very enthusiastic person who would like to share with everyone what worked for me, how I came to discover my health and normal looking skin!
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| Dyshidrosis Eczema. The images are borrowed from the Internet. They are a pretty close to what my hands used to look like! |
BEFORE: When I started this healing journey my hands did not look good. The eczema was all over 8 of my fingers, 1/4 of the right palm and 2 small patches on top of each hand. A tip of my index finger was so damaged, cracked and hard that I could not feel anything with it! I did not take pictures, because I was embarrassed.
AFTER: good 4 months later, MY HANDS LOOK NORMAL! No signs at all! My index finger looks completely normal, the skin is soft and smooth, the feeling has returned! Looking at my hands you would not be able to tell that they once had eczema and were ruined! Again, too bad I did not take pictures!
Now (over a year later): I continue to be eczema free!
QUICK FACTS:
1) Eczema and all types of dermatitis and autoimmune diseases have all the same cause - high toxicity and low nutrient count in the body!
2) Skin is the last organ where disease will be visible! Skin is a mirror of the immune system! 80% of the immune system is in digestive tract! Eczema is a result of dysfunctional digestive system - the body is eliminating toxins through the skin!
3) Eczema acts as a food allergy.
Most common food allergies are to: dairy, eggs, citrus, peanuts, soy, meats, yeast, nuts, gluten, corn, nightshades (tomato, pepper, bell pepper, potato (sweet potato is not in this group), cocoa, vinegars, exotic fruit, etc Food allergy means that we cannot digest food properly - those undigested proteins leak from the colon into the blood stream. Any protein in the blood stream will result in high histamine reaction - the body will try to get rid of the "invader" by eliminating it through the skin - eczema.
My recommendation is in order to determine what we are allergic to, to eliminate all allergenic and unhealthy foods. Then give it some time and watch eczema go away (unless there is still an allergenic food on our menu). It took me a few months to see that I was highly allergic to dairy, meats, citrus, tomatoes, all vinegars, cocoa. They would give me eczema. Soy, curry, melons would give me different reactions (acne, abnormal body odor etc). The allergic reaction would happen sometimes within an hour and sometimes a few hours later.
Sometimes the allergic reaction was accumulative - for example, I would get eczema only if I had meat more than once.
You can have a lot of fruit for breakfast (bananas, apples, pears, grapes, watermelon, are the safest choices to start with) and gluten free oatmeal with banana, cinnamon and honey. You can have a green smoothie instead (banana+ apple+spinach +water). Lunch can be cooked vegetables with brown rice or lentils or baked potatoes, etc with small salad. For dinner we can have a large salad with avocado,
Sometimes the allergic reaction was accumulative - for example, I would get eczema only if I had meat more than once.
You can have a lot of fruit for breakfast (bananas, apples, pears, grapes, watermelon, are the safest choices to start with) and gluten free oatmeal with banana, cinnamon and honey. You can have a green smoothie instead (banana+ apple+spinach +water). Lunch can be cooked vegetables with brown rice or lentils or baked potatoes, etc with small salad. For dinner we can have a large salad with avocado,
a) We can remove the offending foods and eczema will go away. Example of eczema as food allergy in several patients of Dr Morrow Brown MD here.
b) Eczema can have many causes (see upper page Eczema Cause) and another one can be an overly toxic body, where the liver is over burdened and any unhealthy food or chemical will cause a great stress on that organ (and others). That food will not be digested properly and the toxins from that food will be eliminated through the skin.
I had food allergies AND was too toxic. I removed my allergenic foods (took me 4 months to have them all marked down) and later when I increased the amount of raw food, my body began to detoxify and eczema came back until a few months later when the body was done clearing its tissues and organs of accumulated toxins.
b) Eczema can have many causes (see upper page Eczema Cause) and another one can be an overly toxic body, where the liver is over burdened and any unhealthy food or chemical will cause a great stress on that organ (and others). That food will not be digested properly and the toxins from that food will be eliminated through the skin.
I had food allergies AND was too toxic. I removed my allergenic foods (took me 4 months to have them all marked down) and later when I increased the amount of raw food, my body began to detoxify and eczema came back until a few months later when the body was done clearing its tissues and organs of accumulated toxins.
This is where we need to give our body a chance to heal and crate an alkaline ph in the body:
- by consuming a lot of organic raw foods (as they are, as pressed juices and/or smoothies)
- by consuming a lot of organic raw foods (as they are, as pressed juices and/or smoothies)
- removal of unhealthy, processed foods.
By doing this our immune system will get stronger, digestion and assimilation of nutrients will improve and some allergies will go away or become less frequent.
Some of my allergies became a lot less severe after I changed my diet to a high alkaline diet and not only did eczema go away, but my over all health got greatly improved and I have more energy than ever before! For example, I can now enjoy a tomato, despite the allergy. I must only be aware of the quantity. Too many tomatoes will result in eczema. But before I changed my diet to high alkaline, just 1 tomato would almost immediately give me eczema!
5) Eczema is not inherited! We can inherit a predisposition to a certain disease, but the trigger for it will be a chemical reaction in the body - all food we consume is a material and energy for that chemical reaction to take place! We can, if we choose so, have a great control over our health!
6) We would all like to hear that there is a magic pill or a magic cream which would remove all our troubles and health issues without us ever knowing the cause or ever changing our lifestyle! Unfortunately there is no such thing. All creams and pills for eczema do not cure, but suppress the symptoms and thus the immune system. What that means is that they contain steroids which are very toxic to the liver and the whole body! Suppressing the symptom means that the liver will pull the toxins into itself. In a long run this will result in other health issues!
8) There is another way, a Natural and tasty way of curing eczema by knowing and eliminating the cause! We can learn that the symptom is NOT the enemy, but the body's attempt to deal with the wrong we have done to it! So instead of keeping the toxins inside with dangerous pills and creams, we can remove the cause of the problem and give it solution - healthy food = healthy body!
"Let food be thy medicine, let medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates, father of the modern medicine (that's ironic, right?)
See My Story and Success Stories, (a page with people's stories of how they cured themselves of "incurable" diseases) and be inspired! :-)
"Let food be thy medicine, let medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates, father of the modern medicine (that's ironic, right?)
See My Story and Success Stories, (a page with people's stories of how they cured themselves of "incurable" diseases) and be inspired! :-)
Dr Joel Robbins in his audio lecture I own said that in 1920s the percentage of people who were 40 years old or older and who had a degenerative disease (cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc) was 20%!
60 years later, in 1980 that number would have to be lower, right? We have the best doctors, millions pouring into the research fund every year, we have the best technology etc. So it would be logical to presume that the number would be a lot lower. Reality: the percentage of people who are 40 or older with a degenerative disease in 1980 was 77%!!!
Dr Michael Klaper in his lecture (above, page Holistic doctors) shows a diagram which demonstrates what happened between 1920 and cca now: decrease in consumption fruits and vegetables and increase in meats, dairy, canned goods, artificial items, sodas, etc.
I am wishing you eczema free life! kb
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