Slash Incidence of Infant Eczema and Allergy by 58 Percent

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tfaith777 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:07:41 GMT

I would also look into fungal issues for skin conditions. Google it. Natural anti-fungals are easy to get and can make a huge difference. Know the Cause is a great website that deals with fungus.

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tfaith777 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:04:53 GMT

Mamachibi-I would get your dd tested for celiac or take her off gluten. The rash sounds like it might be dermatitis herpetiformis. I have to second Bee's website. The diet is wonderful. We eat that way as a way of life. It is horrible if you're addicted to sugar, bread etc. but those cravings do go away...eventually.

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pammy38 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:50:54 GMT

My son gets something like this every year... and although we have been going to a naturopath... it is hard to keep up with the supplements on a 6 yr old. He has a place on his leg right now and we stopped everything because I didnt want anything to interfere with antibiotic(we were afraid it could be MRSA but it wasnt... we thought it was fungal and although the fungal cream helpd some... we used cortizone 10 calendula oil and aloe I think... it helps it but once you stop treating it with that it comes right back... any suggestions...? MY son was breast fed but I supplemented with formula(he is 6 now) he also loves milk.... it is his fav.... It is just hard in the real world to do the "natural" or organic stuff all the time... I jsut dont want to continue to put cortizone cream on it when it gets bad again and it really never goes all the way away...What to use/do?

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Shasha — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:52:34 GMT

II forgot to say,. I need dairy free acidophlius to be ok...not cultured in dairy...If I get the dairy kind I get yeast and very sick.

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Shasha — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:51:15 GMT

Eczema maybe from being celiac. www.enterolab.com is a stool sample and cheek genetic test to test for celiac. Blood tests and biposies don't work half of the time to diagsnose celiac. Many people eat whole wheat and think they will get healthier but if you are celiac it will make you sicker as it destroys the intestintes. I wish doctors were trained in Celiac...then half of the U.S. population could get help for their many health issues that Celiac is the root cause for. Great book- Dangerous Grains by Braly It is dairy and gluten that is a problem. When the tips of the intestines are destroyed where lactase to digest lactose is made dairy digestion may be gone. I take Osteoprocare instead of dairy since all the other dairy supplements give me bone spurs and organic brown rice instead of gluten (oats,rye, barley, wheat). Dairy hurts me great than lactose intolerance...I may never be able to eat dairy again...Dairy and gluten stimulate opioid receptor sites that make the immune system go down. LDN helps to block celiac and these receptor sites. Celiac diet, LDN, vitamins and good oils may help eczema.

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Ruby23 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:35:19 GMT

I have vaccinated one of my two children. The one vaccinated had a gammut of health issues, the other never gets sick. I have read that the issue is the toxins in vaccinations such as mercury, aluminum , famadehyde. If you read about chem trails which I suggest everyone do, you can get a lot of info on YouTube, there is a lot of speculation that what they are dispersing into the air is aluminum and barium. This may account for other cases of allergies.

My town has been bombarded with jets laying chem trails on a daily basis. 6 planes overhead non-stop from 7am to 8pm. Let me tell you, if I'm out in the air I notice within the hour that my sinuses and throat burn, I begin to feel congested and start sneezing as if I have allergies. I never had allergies until 97-98 which is when I read that these chem trails started showing up in the sky line. Also note that in the past month we have gone to 2 cases of swine flu to 87 cases of swine flu and they have been laying chem trails non-stop this month. Strange......

My friends thought I was crazy until they too educated themselves and started looking up into the sky and paying attention to the way they felt following these episodes. Kucinich actually filed a bill demanding that the Govt stop laying chem trails. For years they have denied the existence of chem trails.

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Ruby23 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:02:37 GMT

I have to agree with RENEETAG. My son has severe excema. He is 10 years old and at times I would say it covers 75% of his body. My son had severe seizures following a hep b vaccine the first day of his life. He was given 3 spinal taps and then put on phenol barbital to stop the seizures for 3 months. He had severe excema, night terrors (never slept until he was about 8). He had an accute sense of smell, over weight. His father and I are thin and we eat very healthy. We are a very active family. At 5 he started developing motor tics. We have no history of tourettes. After much research I had his titers checked and sure enough he had strep that had gone unnoticed and untreated. Once he took antibiotics the tics went away. I'm not a proponent of antibiotics however I believe it is a vicious cycle. I believe that the vaccines have damaged his immune system, this inturn caused the reaction of tics he had with his strep. We stopped vaccinating and my daughter has never been vaccinated (healthy as a horse). She had a little excema at birth but cleared right up. Both children were nursed for over a year. I'm hoping with detoxing we are able to get these toxins out of his system. His health is much better and he has slowly been losing weight. I do think there is a strong correlation. The Western Doctors wanted to put my son on Haldol for the tics. I said no way. We did start taking probiotics with good results for the excema. We also have him use coconut oil on his skin which helps tremedously.

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houstonheather — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:24:41 GMT

As a wife of a man who suffered with eczema for 30 years and a son who spent his first year of life covered in oozing, bleeding, miserably itchy eczema rash, I have found this issue is almost always oversimplified - including in this article, and definitely in the reader comments. Our son is unvaccinated and was breast fed for two years - he never has ingested a single bottle of formula, yet at three months he developed eczema and he has multiple life threatening food allergies. He WAS however, much to my dismay, delivered via C-Section (breech unable to be turned - homebirth transfer to hospital) and he received a week of IV antibiotics at birth and was not allowed to breastfeed for the first three days of life because he was on oxygen. You couldn't ask for a much worse start for your gut bacteria. We have tried several different types of probiotics and found some mild improvement of the eczema, but it was the help of a nutritionist and various whole food supplements that really got the eczema under control (that, and a LOT of prayer!). We have never used any cortosterioids or immunosuppressants on him at all. Even now he is not totally free from from the eczema though, and certainly not from the food allergies.

My husband's eczema of 30 years was finally cured with the help of an M.D. that focuses on natural methods and really getting to the root of these chronic conditions. He was diagnosed with leaky gut and was treated. Within a few months his eczema was 90% gone. Today it's completely gone.

This issue is very complicated and it is particularly hurtful to mothers who are trying to figure out solutions for their eczema children to make blanket statements about the causes and remedies for this condition.

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TexDawn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:33:42 GMT

I nursed my daughter for 2yrs, and we still had occasional boughts of eczema until I quit using comercial detergents. I make my own laundry soap and buy only safe shampoos. I'm horrified at the ingrediants in some personal care products directed at babies.

Also, she developed allergy inducedd asthma *after* I quit nursing and directly after her first MMR shot. Well, actually, 2wks after the shot she got pnuemonia, coxsackie, and rsv all at once. Two weeks in the hosipital on oxygen. She had allergy induced asthma for 2 yrs after that. Fortunately, she must have some instinct on how to help herself because she eats yougurt and kefir like crazy and no longer shows symptoms of allergy asthma! Or eczema for that matter.

So, call me a believer.

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velcromom — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:42:44 GMT

One reason breastfed babies sometimes develop gut related problems is that so many of them nowdays are born by cesarean section. During a normal birth, the baby is properly colonized with the necessary bacteria, but when delivered by surgical means, they miss out on this benefit. Unfortunately some parents spend years trying to make up for this deficit and the trouble it can cause.

Another reason is that "breastfed" in this country usually means exclusively breastfed for only a duration of weeks or months, after which the baby is switched partially or completely to formula. Formula feeding disrupts the healthy microflora and allows foreign proteins to pass thru the gut wall. Dairy and soy are two of the top allergens in infants, unfortunately they are the main ingredients in formula.

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myvoodoo2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:20:41 GMT

Well............let's not forget to mention one of the main reasons for eczema......

Toxic personal care and particularly laundry products. Chemical fragrances are a very common cause and the remaining chemicals can also cause eczema. These products are extremely toxic and cause a host of serious problems. When you are continuously being exposed on your skin from clothing and inhaling it there is no big surprise. And babies often have their face on an in your clothes when you are holding thme so they get an even bigger dose of it!

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L.E.A.N. — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:44:58 GMT

Does anyone have access to the full journal?

The 58% figure is misleading. This is the same statistical integrity, or lack thereof, we often hear blamed on Big Pharma. At 3 months, parent-reported cases were 6/50 in treatment and 15/52 in placebo. That's 12% vs. 28.8%, respectively. The treatment reduced the incidence of eczema just over 16%, right? 58% is an inflated figure.

Also, consider this quote from the abstract:

"After 3 months, the incidence of eczema was similar in both groups"

Found here: www3.interscience.wiley.com/.../abstract

I'm not saying I don't agree with probiotic supplementation, I took some this morning. But let's not use the same misleading statistical tricks we hate to see from conventional medicine to trumpet our methods. If they wok that well, we shouldn't have to.

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Paul Jaep — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:24:45 GMT

Yes replacing bacteria with probiotics that should have been in the infants gut as part of a natural process .. But here's the thing , probiotic bacteria neither multiply or stay in the gut. A fact well know to sellers of probiotics if not the medical profession . [search custom probiotics] That makes our gut flora very special indeed ..How to restore gut flora to what is considered normal is the holy grail of medicine [or should be]... I do believe i have the formula/know how to produce a probiotic that will assimilate with existing gut flora ...Give me a call Dr Mercola and perhaps together we can produce a product of global importance ..I have a doctor of world renown who after a couple of hours of head to head wanted to be first to offer her patients the chance of trying the probiotic .it's classed as a food not medication so formal trials are not required ...

Please read the normal flora page of my site

www.yeast-candida-infections-uk.co.uk/normal-flora

Be sure to click the highlighted text on how gut flora hides and modifies the immune response

Probiotics: determinants of survival and growth in the gut. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../11157348

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helpothers — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:11:49 GMT

Unfortunately reproducing today can not be a natural process much like a lot of things. Couples really need to make sure that they have their bodies in optimal condition before conceiving. Moms especially need to get tested for heavy metals as these can be mobilized during pregnancy and passed on to the fetus. Maternal allergies also need to be addressed. They can be passed on through the placenta and breastmilk(that is why I think breastfed babies aren't always as healthy). I turn out to have milk allergy and so do all my kids. Perhaps they wouldn't if I had eliminated milk products from my diet while pregnant(I didn't know this at the time). So sad it has come to this but ours is a toxic world and it is obvious that until we do something about that, having truly healthy babies without a lot of forethought and work is going to be difficult.

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algts42 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:52:40 GMT

A few days ago, I received the Vitamin D Council newsletter about pregnancy. It has many links to research studies about Vitamin D in pregnancy and young children that is helpful to read. I have 4 sons with eczema, one with severe eczema, and I am convinced that it is in part due to a Vitamin D deficiency. I had my level tested recently and it was below normal, and I have been supplementing, but apparently not enough. I also live in a Northern latitude. We are working now to get their level up to normal. Here is a link to the newsletter, which is very worth reading: www.vitamindcouncil.org/.../pregnancy-and-gestational-vitamin-d-deficiency.shtml

Also, all of them were breastfed for 15-27 months, so I really don't believe not breastfeeding is the only cause.

Seeker_3-According to the Vitamin D council, trying to get all of your Vitamin D from cod liver oil is not the best way to go. See www.vitamindcouncil.org/.../2008-december.shtml