Re: weird skin question - Jen

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Hi Jen, I will let you know if I find out what these things on my

hand are, but the rash on my face I have figured out. One of the docs

at Bastyr took one look at it and said that due to the pattern and

the fact that it was near my mouth that it was, according to chinese

medicine theory, food allergy related. So I went through this long

process of eliminating foods for 3 weeks or more, waiting for the

rash to clear up, then adding foods back in one at a time and waiting

to see which ones I had reactions to and which ones started up the

eczema again. It was pretty obvious which foods did it - corn,

citrus, peanuts, and chocolate were the worst. As long as I'm real

strict about avoiding those " bad " foods the rash totally clears up,

as do all my pimples.

She also said that things like cortesone and creams for the eczema

will just supress the reaction and drive it deeper into my body and

possibly cause worse things to happen inside where no one can see

what damage is being done until it's gone really far... that the

eczema and pimples were the bodies way of eliminating the things it

felt were toxic... and so creams were only supressing the reaction

and not eliminating the problem.

To eliminate the problem I've been taking some suplements that are

supposed to help heal my intestines (where all the allergic problems

are starting) and also I've started this thing called NAET which is

an energy medicine that eliminates allergies. It's slow going and

kind of a pain in the neck to do, but so far I am able to eat citrus

agian with no problems at all. I can't wait to do corn and

chocolate...

Hope that makes sense...

Pam B.

> These sound like what I get on my legs. And I also have a flaky

rash that I

> get on my face that sounds like yours..I use a

prescription,Clotrimazole.

> So far it is Unidentified. HMMM,let me know if you ever find out

what it

> is,have you asked any doc's? ~Jen