Re:Re: Eczema related question/Kim

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Thank you for your response Kim. I only have it on my right hand - and it got

significantly worse since I've been on SCD and I'm not sure why that is. It

seemed to get really bad while on my flare up which lasted just about 6 weeks.

It is a little bit better this week, but not by much. I too use petroleum jelly

as well as coconut oil, wear a cotton glove at night so I don't itch my skin

right off.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I'm learning to be patient with healing

since being on SCD

~Ann

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> Not that I want to bring gloom to your day [grin] but my experience has been

> that my eczema (arms) has improved considerably since being on SCD but my

> dermatitis and contact dermatitis on my hands has not. I remember noticing

> the eczema on my arms had almost disappeared at the end of my 2nd year;

> didn't really pay attention when it vanished completely. That was the point

> where my candida overgrowth had been eliminated, and my gut ecology was

> improving steadily.

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Ann

Do you find a connection with certain foods triggering an outbreak of eczema on

your right hand? It took me a while to figure out some of my food triggers.

Too much fruit of certain kinds, particularly berries, is one of my triggers.

Like you, my right hand is more effected than my left hand, and right now the

fingertips of my right hand are cracking and bleeding, one of my dermatitis

symptoms; on thinking about what I've eaten this past week I realized I'd had a

blueberry muffin every other day. Blueberries are in season here, and I'd

picked a big batch, froze most but also made a batch of muffins. Guess eating

blueberries every other day is too often for me [sigh]. They taste so good!

Have you checked in with a dermatologist? Might be a fungal organism that has

taken up residence.

Healing does take time. My eczema didn't clear up until my gut ecology was

nearly restored, although my dermatitis improved faster even though it recurrs

frequently depending on what I'm doing or eating...

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

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> Thank you for your response Kim. I only have it on my right hand - and it got

significantly worse since I've been on SCD and I'm not sure why that is. It

seemed to get really bad while on my flare up which lasted just about 6 weeks.

It is a little bit better this week, but not by much. I too use petroleum jelly

as well as coconut oil, wear a cotton glove at night so I don't itch my skin

right off.

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> I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I'm learning to be patient with

healing since being on SCD

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> ~Ann

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