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 […]
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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 […]
Review on Germolene : I have been having broken skin from the intense scratching at night. After reading several journals/articles about how antibiotic ointment affects the skin’s natural ability to fight germs & have a balanced flaura, we shouldn’t apply it continuously to broken skin. So I opted for a more general method to disinfect my […]
Catchy word right? I came across this acroynm while going through my nutrition course and it’s an easy word to remember. CRAP stands for Carbonated Drinks, Refined Sugar, Artificial Flavoring and Coloring and Processed food. Yup, it’s all the bad stuff that we are suppose to avoid. Now, of course moderation is key in this matter because in our […]
Thanks to a friend’s recommendation to use Tubifast glove, now I can drive at ease and not worry about heat rash or drying fingers from the sun rays when I hold on to the steering wheel during mid day. Last week my fingers flared up again after a long drive in the afternoon. So I […]
One morning, I was revising my nutrition course on vitamins and minerals – their effectiveness, deficiency symptoms and food sources. My 6-year old was at home during school holiday and came peering into my laptop screen. Our conversation started : Boy : Mama, I know what Vitamin A is good for – it improves night vision. […]
Looked through numerous TCM sites and summarized here the food that occurs most often as cooling foods which can help cool down my body whenever i have to run errands under the sun.
Do you wonder whether certain kinds of foods cause your skin to flare up? When I did my skin prick test for food last year at National Skin Centre, the skin specialist mentioned that it’s not exhaustive because they only have samples for up to 30 common food specimens. Typically we end up eating a […]