What are the best Natural Alternative solutions for treating eczema?
I have been to a doctor today & he said I have eczema, which started after Christmas, there are so many possible factors, allergies etc. While I am ruling them out one by one I need to treat the eczema, I don’t want to take anti-biotics or use steroid creams. I know a LOT about holistic & nutritional things, but I would like to know what the natural solutions are for treating eczema, I will be applying E45 Cream to all affected areas (arms, shoulders, neck) daily. I will be going back to the doctors in a week or two. Proper answers please, no "take drugs" comments, I want answers to the question I am asking, what are the natural alternatives?
Thanks for the replies so far, I eat VERY healthily, I know almost as much as Gillian McKeith, & believe in holistic lifestyle, I eat cooked rice & millet pasta, with plenty of cold-pressed hemp seed oil, tomatoes, herbs, take plenty of supplements, I also eat cooked Quinoa, & steamed vegetables with garlic & have had 2 colonics recently, (also removed hundreds of intestinal worms). I plan to try to slowly convert to raw foods. I think that the cause of this eczema could be allergies, or food related, I have been eliminating possible causes one by one & have found that heat starts me itching, but I started eating organic "quinoa & rice with garlic" snacks by Biona after christmas, I worked out that they contain about 6grams of salt in a bag (i would eat one bag a day, i know that 6g is the most you should at in a day but now I believe that this is the biggest cause of the itching, Salt. So I won’t be eating these for a while to find out if the itching & scabs improve.
So for now, I would like to know what natural & holistic methods exist for helping to heal the scabbed skin & stop the itching (although if salt is the cause of the itching it should stop soon as I have stopped eating so much salt). I will also be drinking plenty of water to try to get more hydrated as I was dehydrated before. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll try some of the cold pressed hemp oil on my skin, & I think perhaps the goats milk helping people is probably because of the high fat content, so I will continue pouring the hemp oil on my pasta & in soups. Keep the suggestions coming though, I appreciate them.
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The best way to cure your eczema is through your diet. You are what you eat, do you want to be a flaky pastry, or a crumbly bit of bread?
Cut out dairy, meat and wheat and eat raw living vegan foods. I am a raw food vegan, my husband and I eat 100% raw vegan foods. Our website is under construction at the moment but there is quite a lot of info, links and books on it already for you to see. http://www.purelyraw.com
OK, so you may not want to go raw overnight, so I’d advise at least to begin with cut out dairy, then meat and wheat.
I have been vegan for 10 years, during that time I have lapsed back into dairy a few times. Each time my skin has immediately become itchy and dry and ugly. Then after just 2 weeks with no dairy it is back to beautiful and comfortable again.
To explain briefly, eating cooked foods, meat and dairy make our blood acidic, this creates an acidic body. So when you sweat your sweat irritates the skin. When you start to clean your diet up you go into a more alkaline state and your sweat is no longer irritable to you. Our natural atate is alkaline. And disease free.
Eating cooked foods, meat and dairy dehydrates the body. It takes much fluid to digest these things, this takes away fluid from the skin and dries it out. Raw foods digest themselevs, using up none of your liquid, energy or digestive enzymes.
Cooking food destroys 80% of the nutrients, vitamins and all the enzymes.
Change your diet. Eating purely raw foods has brought me a level of happiness and health I never imagined possible. My husband and I work to help others achieve this too. Please have a look at our website, and then check out the links and see what raw food and veganism has done for thousands of others.Good Luck, feel free to email me at my website with any questions or if you just want more info. Good Luck, and don’t take the steroids!!!
My friends disappeared when she started drinking goats milk
sage water.
boil about an Oz of sage in water, strain and drain, keep the liquid. add it a coup0le of sloshes at a time to the bathwater and use and oatmeal scrub… basically put some porridge oats in an old stocking and wash with it… USE NO SOAP.
this cured my wifes excema/psoriasis in around a month. no redness, no itching, no flaking scaley skin… its as close to free as it gets, and theres no side effects…
good luck
When my children suffered from it, our doctor advised us to run their bathwater through a sieve full of oats to help moisturise the skin as an alternative to products like Oilatum.
Try "Hemp Lotion" made by Supre in Australia
Best Stuff Around for skin care and repair.
I don’t know how effective this is, but my grandfather in Cyprus used take a bath in goat’s milk. He believed this cured him everytime..
If you suffer from eczema you have probably been given just about every type of topical cream known. Few realise that the gastrointestinal tract is the main source of skin conditions.
The inner lining of the gastrointestinal tract is the largest immune reactive surface in the body, amounting to the size of a small tennis court.
Within the GI tract this surface is repeatedly exposed to food particles, bacteria, yeasts, and other toxins that cause inflammatory reactions such as eczema.
Researchers have found that patients with eczema have a much higher rate of gastrointestinal disorders.
The xanthones in the Garcinia Mangostana are anti-inflammatory in nature and, in addition, they kill microbes such as yeast, bacteria, and fungi.
When the Mangosteen xanthones are consumed on a daily basis, wonderful things begin to happen; your body starts to heal almost instantly.
As a topical treatment the following procedure can be used: Pour the Mangosteen juice into a thin container such as a Tupperware container, then let the juice sit in the open air for a couple of days, to evaporate into a paste, which can be applied to the skin.
http://www.mangosteen101.co.uk
Eczema needs to be treated both internally and externally.
On the outside, treat with topical steriods and seal it in with Vaseline or Vanacream to break the itch-scratch cycle.
On the inside, I recommend all-natural Flax Seed (one tablespoon a day). The typical American diet is low in Omega 3 fatty acids. The single best source is all natural flax seed. I’ve written an article this and on the benefits of flax seed if you would like more details.
http://www.answermarks.com/health/flaxseed.html
It cleared up my Eczema. Give it a shot.
You could try sea buckthorn oil. Its used for lots of the worst dermatitis conditions, this site http://www.rosacea-remedy.com has information on the science research that has been carried out on it. It’s excellent on my rosacea but on the site it says that its good for eczema too. They don’t have a body lotion but you could ask them to make one as they have a new customised service and they aren’t very expensive. My intensive oil spreads very well so it lasts along time and heals my bad patches really quickly. Hope you find something soon as i know how depressing and painful it can be having sore skin.
In this pdf file http://www.rosacea-remedy.com/Seabuckthorn-Medicine.pdf it says that it also helps A LOT to take sea buckthorn oil capsules but they’re hard to find and too expensive for me
LOL emmarose I hope they found your friends now hehe
This is a gem of a site for alternative remedies & has alot of good info on eczema, inc. diet, supplements,natural creams etc.
Also, they recommned a really good cream that has ben very effective for treating eczema called SK cream (available by order on phone, see end of article)
http://www.whatreallyworks.co.uk/start/articles.asp?article_ID=474
Please type in eczema in search & look thru’ relevant results.
After doing browsing many, MANY websites and doing other research on this, I’ve come to the distinct suspicion that eczema is a term doctors use for "itchy skin condition that we don’t know the cause of and am not sure how to treat."
With that in mind, here is what finally worked for my husband (which may or may not work for you). He had excema mainly on the undersides of his arms and elbows and knees (and these areas were constanty red and scabbed because they itched so much he couldhn’t keep himself from itching).
SALSA: Crazy as it seems eating something spicey every day has helped dramatically. His exzema has practically gone away (only reoccuring occassionally). Learned about that one on National Public Radio.
AVOIDING RED/ORANGE FOOD COLORING: We think we have tied the occassional flare up he has recently to things with red food coloring…so we try to avoid it. Kool aid, frosting, candy coloring etc.
Its a frustrating condition. My husband had it for years before he found a treatment that worked for him. I hope you find one sooner than that. A quick but VERY short lived natural method to relieve the itching is peppermint tea (you want to use a lo–several tea bags to make it strong, and steep for 10 minutes–make sure that the tea you use is actually peppermint leaves, not just peppermint flavored.) Let the tea cool to around luke warm and them take a towell and apply to the effected area. Unfortunately, it only lasts about 10 minutes and you have to re-apply (you can use the same tea–you don’t have to make more every time, just make a lot at first).
How about having a hot bath with a load of honey dissolved in the water.It is said to be good for psoriasis so maybe for eczema too.
Try either or both Whipped Shea Body Butter and Jojoba Oil with Tea Tree Essential Oil. I get eczema under my wedding ring during the winter months and use both. Nothing is better! And you can use the jojoba on your face to moisturize and treat oily skin – you can’t beat that!!!
Good luck!
Debbie Helbing
Celestial Soap Co.
http://celestialsoapco.tripod.com
Try to stop eating seafoods and eggs for a while-examine what kind of food you can and cannot eat.Try a non-fragrance soap and apply Eucerin Calming Creme(a natural oatmeal and rich moisturizers to soothe and prevent dry,itchy skin).,then Triamcinolone Acetonide Cream 0.1% to all affected areas.