Eczema questions?

[Guest guest]

Dear Elanie,

You may be just the person who can help me. I am not very familiar

with eczema causes and cures and it sounds like you've been through

it all. My grandson's girlfriend has it and he asked if I could

advise what she could do about it. Can you help me? Do you have

good websites I could check out too?

TIA,

Bee

> Katja,

> When I was vegan macrobiotic I had terrible itchy eczema.The

interesting

> thing was that i did not eat any nuts/seeds/oils/or glten

containing foods ( no

> flour products, seitan, no oats, barley etc...) and no sugars (

not even

> fruit for many years). And the problem kept getting worse. I did

eat miso, tempeh

> and wheat free tamari.

> I finally summed it up to a severe fatty acid deficiency/imbalance.

After I

> lost my dietary dogma I started using butter and usung fish oil

supplements as

> well as eating fish and eggs (this was before NT) and it went away.

I couldn't

> believe it was that simple but since that time there are certain

*trigger*

> foods that will create the same eczema (citrus, sugar, cow dairy in

any form

> except butter, butter oil and ghee, grains and too many nuts). Do

you use

> Primal Defense?

>

> Elainie

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 3/23/04 11:09:50 PM, beewilder@... writes:

> Dear Elanie,

>

> You may be just the person who can help me.  I am not very familiar

> with eczema causes and cures and it sounds like you've been through

> it all.  My grandson's girlfriend has it and he asked if I could

> advise what she could do about it.  Can you help me?  Do you have

> good websites I could check out too?

>

>

Bee,

I've not looked on any websites as I know what the trigger foods are for me.

Perhaps your grandson's girlfriend should start a food diary since each

individual reacts differently to foods. Then she could pinpoint the trigger

causes.

I honestly believe that when a person is healthy , they can eat all sorts of

natural foods (not packaged but real food) and nit get reactions. I think my

immune issues stem from being formula fed and vaccinated ( I grew up eating

real organic food).

Elainie

[Guest guest]

Stop me if you've heard this one...

I think Doug Kaufmann associates eczema with fungal infections. He

says that lots of our common foods (grains, peanuts, citrus?) are

infected with fungus. So a low-fat diet based on them would probably

set you up for fungus.

Sally Fallon says that animal fat is antifungal.

So switching to a diet that minimizes fungus-containing food and

includes animal fat (and/or coconut oil?) can help get rid of

conditions that involve fungus.

Kaufmann says that any time a disease is of " unknown etiology " , it

probably involves fungus.

I figure that anything that is alleviated by increasing intake of

animal fat or vitamin D might very well be associated with fungus.

Isn't this stuff fascinating?

> > Katja,

> > When I was vegan macrobiotic I had terrible itchy eczema.The

> interesting

> > thing was that i did not eat any nuts/seeds/oils/or glten

> containing foods ( no

> > flour products, seitan, no oats, barley etc...) and no sugars (

> not even

> > fruit for many years). And the problem kept getting worse. I did

> eat miso, tempeh

> > and wheat free tamari.

> > I finally summed it up to a severe fatty acid

deficiency/imbalance.

> After I

> > lost my dietary dogma I started using butter and usung fish oil

> supplements as

> > well as eating fish and eggs (this was before NT) and it went

away.

> I couldn't

> > believe it was that simple but since that time there are certain

> *trigger*

> > foods that will create the same eczema (citrus, sugar, cow dairy

in

> any form

> > except butter, butter oil and ghee, grains and too many nuts). Do

> you use

> > Primal Defense?

> >

> > Elainie

> >

> >

> >