An alkaline eczema diet is basically a simple food choice adjustment that you make to eliminate or minimize food that can trigger itchiness or inflammation. Most people who adopt this diet notice a great improvement in the itch level within weeks. Karen’s Eczema Diet book , written by an Australian nutritionist outlines a 3 day detox […]
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Let’s do 10 weeks checkpoint on my eczema diet. I have been diligently avoiding the 12 itch causing groups of food for the first 4 weeks into the diet. Once I started noticing continuous improvement and did not felt itchy most of the day, I started re-introducing some food. I notice that my rashes get extra […]
Finally after 8 years, I can smell the roses. 2 years ago, I decided to embark on the journey of topical steroid withdrawal (TSW). It has been a roller-coaster life experience, testing my mental and physical strength to the limit. But with every life challenge, we draw strength from it and grow stronger, changing our […]
One of a very common eczema trigger or allergy is external environmental factors eg. dust mites (most common) or chemicals that exists in detergent, hand soap etc. If your skin comes in contact with these allergens, your body will react to produce histamines and that causes itching and rashes flareups. Doctors would commonly prescribe antihistamine or […]
Most of us consume carbohydrate sources which are highly processed like yellow noodle, white bread, deep-fried frozen french fries, pizza dough etc. The raw ingredient that was derived have already lost most of the nutrition through the processing, packaging and storage. Thus, we can only derive carbohydrate as energy source from these food. These are common […]
One of my readers asked me for advice on what is the one food ingredient to avoid because her baby’s eczema seems to be flaring up more. She suspected that food may be the culprit. My recommendation was : DAIRY(cow’s milk) – simply because it is the most common allergenic food. One of the common cow’s milk […]
Eczema-diet is fundamentally alkaline-based, food choices that are non itch causing. This is a personal diary of an eczema-sufferer under-going the eczema diet : The start….. I have been on my eczema diet for 10 days now and so far I notice that my skin has calmed down somewhat. Of course the other change in […]