What next...treatment for Eczema & Yeast

I actually think we just cured ds eczema. We started Mon and by Weds he was clear and today looks absolutely perfect.
We had him tested for yeast and his was totally out of control.
He's getting:
MSM internally and topically
Curcumin
--both of these are anti-inflammatories

l beta glucan for immune support
fish oil
grapefruit seed extract

And, he's on totally strict rigid diet for 4 weeks.

GOOD luck--it's so debilitating.

He's partially right. There is no particular "cause" for eczema (it's genetics, autoimmune, whatever), but there are definitely things that trigger flare-ups. We've been doing a TON of research on it recently because our 5 month old has it pretty bad on his face and mildly on the rest of his body.

For your eyelids, you need to constantly moisturize. That's the key. Eucerin or Aquaphor or Aveeno...something that feels good and stays on for a long time (and doesn't run into your eye, i guess!)

To keep it at bay, take Omegas, especially omega 6. So like a good 3-6-9 capsule, plus a bunch of Evening Primrose Oil. You can also rub the EPO on your eczema patches, though i don't know how that would feel on your eyelids.
We are bf'ing our son, so we take the capsules ourselves and also rub him with EPO.
We take this:
http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails....&pid=4190&at=0
as well as 2 -1300mg capsules of EPO. We rub about 500mg onto the baby.

as far as the yeast is concerned, I know that a good candida diet can clear that up, but I'll let someone else talk about that, as I don't have any personal experience with it.

Oh, and food allergies can definitely cause eczema flare-ups, so you can pay attention to that and see if it's contributing. If it were really bothersome, you could do an allergy elimination diet for the Top 8 allergens, but it doesn't seem like it's that extreme for you, right?

Personally I've found that stress and what I use on my skin to be the big triggers for my flare ups with eczema. What my kids eat and stress triggers theirs so we just have to stay on top of things. Basically I can not, absolutely not, put conventional soap on my face. It causes the flare up with the eczema on my eyelids, it also causes a flare up with the psoriasis on my face as well. I've just recently started using soap again on the rest of my body, but I found a soap that I like that I want to try and make a home made version. I can not use shampoo on my hair/scalp as it causes the psoriasis on my scalp to flare up and it running across my face will act the same as soap. I do the baking soda and vinegar route for my hair and face. Honey is great for the face as well.

food coloring in food causes my middle kiddo to have eczema flare ups. And dry weather gets everyone in the family flaring up. I have a home made coco butter lotion that I use on all of us as needed and we are just smooth.

I've also found that if there are too many chemicals in the water that bathing will shred my skin.

Eating a lot of healthy fish or getting flax seed into your diet should help too.

actually on that note an old pedi of ours said that his best bet was to go with shortening. He was really old school.

In the winter until I made my home made lotion we used shortening on everyone. It worked better then the OTC lotions.

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I've been told the shortening thing by three different doctors now! I need to get a new tub of it for dd.

Awe, you guys are all so helpful

So, I'm gonna run out and buy some Omega capsules and a huge tub of "grocery store" veggie shortening....then crack and egg and dab the whites on my dd's bum
Does that sound about right?....

( to the pp that mentioned severity, you're right, we totally don't have severe cases here that I think warrant super restrictive diets etc)

This is our first real bonfide flare-up of yeast and eczema, so we'll see what works and go from there

my eczema was very much food sensitivities. i was vegetarian and needed to be eating more protein, and when i do i naturally eat less sweet things...which were feeding a yeast problem. i needed to eliminate 20 foods, eat low glycemic for a long time, and use probiotics. i know i need to get more fish oils in my diet. i really like shea butter and virgin coconut oil on my skin, weleda makes some good products as well. i've used homeopathics as well as acupuncture and chinese herbs, but i think the most effective was to get my gut healthier and eliminate the offending foods. i now have only 5 real sensitivities, which is so great! i use an excellent naturopath in vancouver, hal brown. i can't recommend him enough. the food testing for my entire family was done through him...a couple of members of my family had no rashes or anything like my chronic stuff, but found other problems cleared right up as soon as they quit cow dairy and wheat, or whatever was bothering them. actually, corn is horrible for me, i can get away with many other things. my young girl took citricidal for yeast in the past, i just put stevia in with it and mix with orange juice since she could handle that. it still isn't very nice

i had the eyelid thing as a teenager...unfortunately i didn't know anything and put cortisone on them, yikes!! i did think it was very odd, and soon researched alternatives, but it really took quitting vegetarianism (i'm an O) and eating properly to heal.

good luck! one disease = long life.

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Thanks so much everyone. I know these issues of eczema and yeast are discussed regularily around here.....I just felt a bit overwhelmed at ALL the info and needed some direction