Re: Importance of keeping rash free?

[Guest guest]

Your son sounds like a combination of two of my four children. One is

autistic, one has rashes and things. It is actually rather nice in a

way, I try new things on my " rash son " and if he reacts to it with a

rash, I know not to give it to my autistic son.

First thing I personally think you should do, is decide [or test] to

be sure your son's rash is not DH, which is a manifestation of celiac

disease. If it is DH, it will take several weeks to clear up, even

with a single very small gluten infraction, or even a lotion or

something like that which contains gluten. Here is great DH

information, including photos.

http://www.celiac.com/derm.html

The fact you indicate it takes several days to clear up the rash on

his face, to me indicates it might be DH.

I would agree with your wife. Work on getting his face cleared up

and then leave him alone for a while because you may see a nice

improvement of behaviors and such, because if your son is like my two

sons, the rash is an indication of an intolerance. And both of my

sons have intolerances to the same foods. If you do believe the rash

is DH, then your son is having a gluten infraction of some sort,

either food or environmental, and you need to find it. Otherwise,

your son may be like my kids, they are intolerant of almost all foods

and supplements. I have found that the use of digestive enzymes helps

them tolerate some foods that they would not normally tolerate, but

they do not work on all foods, so I use my one son's " rash barometer "

to find the foods they will both tolerate with enzymes.

But so long as you are giving foods/supplements which are causing a

rash and therefore a reaction of some sort, I do not believe you will

see the breakthru you are looking for, because there is always

something new to cause a problem for your son. After the rash is

cleared, let your son " rest " from new foods/supplements for at least a

month, then try one thing at a time, with 1-2 weeks between new

things, and keep a log of what you try and any reactions good or bad.

But because of my experience with my kids, I can relate and tell you

that my kids react to almost all foods and supplements, and they are

100% improved with a very limited diet, enzymes, and two basic

vitamin/calcium supplements. So for your son, trying these new things

to " get further down the road than you are now " , may actually be

preventing you from getting very far down the road.

My opinion anyway.

> My 1yr old son has excema or some kind of rash on his face which is

a very

> nice barometer of what's happening in his innards. He's also

allergic to

> almost every single thing we've fed him. Life lately has been trying

new

> foods and/or supplements which almost always flare up his face.

>

> My question is: How important is is that we keep his face clear (if

we can

> even get back to that point...)? We'd like to try some other things,

but

> aren't sure if we should wait for it to entirely clear up.

>

> My wife is so tired of all this, she wants to get his face clear and

then

> just leave him alone for a few months without trying anything. I'm

not so

> confident of this because I want to get further down the road than

we are

> now. There's so many things we have on the list to try and we seem

to be

> getting nowhere, always waiting for his face to clear up which takes

at

> least 10 days each time, sometimes longer.

>

>

>

> Davo Laninga

[Guest guest]

My allergist said to clear up eczema before trying new food-how else will you

know if new food is causing it or if old condition is just not responding.

To minimize flareups we also started with foods least likely to cause a flare

ups and then moved on to more common allergens. My NT did react however to

anything that his blood test was positive for however. Any time we pushed it

we had to go back again and start from zero because I was always questioning

what caused the flareup, X or Y. Luckily we have it mostly down now and have

had clear skin for about a year. Helene