Re: Asthma/eczema

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That is what i thought you meant. Healing in first.

Our eczema has gone away too but like was mentioned could be the

seasons. For me this weird blistery itching lump things on my foot

is annoying me like crazy. My eczema started like this. Then would

crack and peel and stay red and itchy. Always these hard itching

bump/blisters first. This does not get as far. Just stays at

constant blisters that itch and break open. Start drying up and do

it again. It could be dairy. I am pushing through and if it does

not get better like you i will take it out.

on the GAPS audios she mentions bad flora on the skin. So we have

been adding kefir and water/Raw ACV in a spray bottle to spray on

after showers. Or lube up with kefir after showers. When i do this

the foot thing gets better. If i quit for a day it starts to flare

again. So i would say the salt water making things better for you is

a sign that something needs to be added. Good flora on the skin?

Minerals? Have you tried the Epsom salt bath with sea salt and some

baking soda? May help. i ma trying to get us in there a couple

times a week. I feel like we are wasting water to have that many

people bathing each week. We use shower timers etc. and rarely do

baths because of the amount of water needed.

As for NT diet prior. We found things were getting better for us

over all. The things we are doing GAPS for are the ones that the

diet never changed or maybe they were less frequent but still

issues. We were starting to use grains a bit more - rice and beans

but not more than once weekly every couple of weeks. I used the most

less - like bread for example. We culd not get sprouted and making

my own never worked. We would do soaked pancakes every couple of

weeks. If we had grains for brkfst i tried to make sure we did not

have them the rest of the day. Sometimes it would only be a few

times a week - under 4.

Could not get raw milk until last yr so the milk we did get was 1

liter a week non homogenized organic. Once we got back to Oregon

this past yr we started raw milk - had it for about 8 months prior to

the diet. We were only using 1.5 - 2 gallons weekly for 5 of us. We

always had quality store yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream,

and used these heavily. The only thing we increased intake in was

raw milk and raw cheese. Oh and eggs. Once we got farm eggs we went

from 1 dozen week of store eggs to a 3 - 4 a week. The GAPS diet

bumped us to 7-10 a week. Which i have found seem to bother the baby

so i have given them up. She seems okay if they are in nut pancakes

but eating a few eggs for brkfst gives her horrible painful stinky

gas.

My DH who is a bread addict this past yr when we came back to the US

and we found sprouted bread started the daily intake of bread/wheat

again. I felt bad saying no to the kids when dad was eating several

pieces every morn and through out the day for snacks. After a few

months i finally told him it had to stop cause my instincts would not

let up that it was not good for us regardless of the sprouting. He

felt it fit the NT mark it must be good . I still had my reserves

about grains being good for us even if soaked. So i still tried to

rely on them minimally, but our dairy.....that was a staple for us

and one i am most reluctant to give up as you.

We also did not focus on the fat like you mentioned. But was getting

plenty in all our whole dairy stuff plus VCO - yogurt/kefir smoothies

almost daily. When we started GAPS it was really hard and still is

because we do not like the fat on our meat - gag reflex for most of

us especially the grass fed fat - tastes so bad to me. Using the

avocado - VCO trick in smoothis i have been able to get some in the

diet on a regular basis. We are finally not hungry all the time as

we had been the first 6 weeks or so. I could not figure out how to

do smoothies right away with out dairy. Was not sure what i could

use for the dairy base and did not want ot use fruit juice. Well

that took away our VCO intake as we do not like it alone either.

We typically did not use pork at all but have been bending our rule

on that for bacon i make BLT lettuce wraps for my brkfst - cause of

no eggs. Getting more fat that way too, using grease for cooking

etc. Buying nitrate free stuff is breaking the bank though and

really hard to find around here.

Anyhow that is why i was thinking maybe we won't see dramatic effects

as some have because we have been using similar pro b's, used to lots

of kefir and kombucha. Our diet was not as full of grains on a

regular basis, lot's of juicing etc.

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> Re eczema being better than asthma: I guess I am influenced by

homeopathic thinking. The " law of cure " says that healing occurs from

the inside out, We'll see over time. Like you, his asthma tends to

be seasonal, fall is the worst for him, so the true test will be this

fall, we'll see what happens.

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>> About my own eczema: At some point, if the eczema does not

resolve, I'll probably have to confront whether dairy is right for

me, but I'm very reluctant to let it go!

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> I appreciated all your comments about already being on an

NT/healing diet prior to GAPS. We were, too, although when I look at

what we ate now, I realize that we had lots and lots of starches

(sweet potatoes all winter long, lots of legumes, like several times

a week) and we also probably had 2-3 servings of some type of grain

(soaked or sprouted, etc.) every day! Our fat intake was probably not

as high as it should have been either. So even though I considered

myself very NT, I can see that there are lots of changes that we've

made that take digestive pressure off of the gut. Not to mention that

my son's health was getting worse and worse over the years, despite

NT...

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For me this weird blistery itching

lump things on my foot

> is annoying me like crazy. My eczema started like this. Then would

> crack and peel and stay red and itchy. Always these hard itching

> bump/blisters first. This does not get as far. Just stays at

> constant blisters that itch and break open. Start drying up and do

> it again. It could be dairy. I am pushing through and if it does

> not get better like you i will take it out.

I think you may have dishydrosis:

http://www.geocities.com/vyera/dyshidrosis/main.html

My DH has this too, so please let me know iif you figure out something

that works.