Re: New here and advice needed on which diet for eczema

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I think if you have it it will get worse unless you take action. Get rid of sugar, yeast, dairy, wheat, gluten, no fruit for at least 4 months. That is what i did. Do you have Leaky Gut syndrome or candida?? Have you had the tests done by a dr? Do you have a dr?

But if you got rid of all this, i think it would clear up on it's own.

But what do i know just tellin yea what i have read and i have read bout everything out there.

Hope you can change your diet. I think it would help.

Eczema is a allergy reaction i think.

Bek

From: ange2brighton <angela@...>Subject: [ ] New here and advice needed on which diet for eczema Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 2:09 PM

Hello, I am new here today so this is my first post! I have both the GAPS book and the BED book, have read both, but can't decide which diet to go for, especially since they have so many similarities.Basically, I have had eczema for many years, and also a lactose-intolerance. I would love to be rid of the eczema and also wonder if one day I could drink (raw) milk again.The main reasons I haven't started are because they both seem like a lot of work - I have two small children, work part-time and it is just much easier for everyone to eat the same thing. With the GAPS diet, I also have a problem getting organic grass-fed bones and marrow (I live in Switzerland) so would be unable to do that part of the diet.What I'd like to know is, since my problems aren't really severe is it possible that I wouldn't need to stay a long time on the diet? And is it possible to overcome a lactose-intolerance?

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Hi ,I would do the GAPS diet. You can gradually introduce parts of it so that it is manageable. I would stop eating grains first and start making the breads and muffins out of the nut flours recommended in the book. The bone broths are nourishing and very healing. I'm sure you could find a source for them in Switzerland. I know my store here in California sells butter made in Germany from grass-fed cows! You may have to meet some ranchers in your area to get the bones, or talk to your local butcher. The broths are wonderful and you can make amazing soups and chilis with them which would be great for the upcoming winter.I do believe you can overcome lactose intolerance because I have. I had to avoid dairy for 2 years and take the supplements recommended in the GAPS protocol. I also had to get rid of a candida overgrowth in my digestive tract.I still occasionally get eczema if I eat processed dairy products but I seem to have no problem with raw dairy.Best of luck,On Oct 27, 2010, at 12:09 PM, ange2brighton wrote:

Hello, I am new here today so this is my first post! I have both the GAPS book and the BED book, have read both, but can't decide which diet to go for, especially since they have so many similarities.

Basically, I have had eczema for many years, and also a lactose-intolerance. I would love to be rid of the eczema and also wonder if one day I could drink (raw) milk again.

The main reasons I haven't started are because they both seem like a lot of work - I have two small children, work part-time and it is just much easier for everyone to eat the same thing. With the GAPS diet, I also have a problem getting organic grass-fed bones and marrow (I live in Switzerland) so would be unable to do that part of the diet.

What I'd like to know is, since my problems aren't really severe is it possible that I wouldn't need to stay a long time on the diet? And is it possible to overcome a lactose-intolerance?

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Plz read this all the way through and i hope the others do as well.

It states that eczema sp? is a or can be a symptom of candida. Yeast.

And all of our problems are mentioned on it too, such as Fibro.

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My name is Mark Cobb, and this website is dedicated to the millions of people who, like me, have suffered through the debilitating effects of, and myriad treatments for what is commonly referred to as Candida, or more accurately, a yeast/fungal overgrowth of Candida albicans, which I was diagnosed with 19 years ago.

Candida Yeast/Fungal overgrowth has been found to be a common occurrence in many disorders and is also present in millions of other people who cannot figure out what is wrong with them, or what to do about it.

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an incapacitating fatigue problems with concentration and short-term memory flu-like symptoms such as pain in the joints and muscle extreme tightness in the shoulders and neck hyper-acidity/acid reflux brown colored mucus in the back of the throat blisters in the mouth/tongue/throat either white or "blood blisters" un-refreshing sleep sore throat white coated tongue dark circles under the eyes an aversion to being touched or jumping "crawling" skin chronic sinus problems and headaches including migraines chronic dental problems

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Disease, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and sometimes just depression (which can accompany many disease states), just to name a few.

It can be an underlying condition in many diseases, but is often not diagnosed, misdiagnosed, disputed to even exist or is disregarded altogether. (See our Resources section for findings from Bruce Semon, M.D., Ph.D. regarding the effects of yeast overgrowth and Autism, ADD, ADHD, Tourette's, headaches, fatigue, depression and schizophrenia. Dr. Shaw addresses some of those issues as well as Alzheimer's). The number of children born with Autism 30 years ago was approximately 1 in 500,000. The approximate number today is a staggering 1 in 110 (1 in 70 boys). Alzheimer's alone has been predicted to break our healthcare system in the next 20 years.

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Some antibiotics wipe out "friendly" intestinal bacteria along with the bad bugs that cause infections. Symptoms of this change can include diarrhea, cramping, bloating or other unpleasant digestive symptoms.

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I contracted it from an infected sexual partner, passed it on to my wife after we met, and we have been passing it back and forth to each other for 12 years. Of all the symptoms listed above, we had all but a few of them either consistently, or on a recurring basis.

In the beginning I went to many doctors hoping for a diagnosis and treatment. Since they didn't know what Candida was (nor did I), they naturally couldn't test for it. They all told me I was "as healthy as a horse," except for one doctor who gave me a prescription for Prozac! I thought I really was going to go mad until someone told me about a Dr. Cowden, who had for years been studying the underlying cause of many diseases, which he determined to be an overgrowth of Candida albicans. He was able to diagnose and treat what over the years has come to be called simply, "Candida." His tests came back off the scale and he put me on Diflucan, Nystatin and the now infamous "Candida diet." The drugs worked as long as I was taking them (at $18 a pill), but the symptoms came back full blown as soon as I stopped. The

"Candida diet" almost killed me. My 6' frame got down to 145 pounds and I looked and felt as though I was starving to death.

Over the years I have tried literally everything to get rid of it, to no avail. While some products seemed to help for a short period of time, nothing could kill it completely and the symptoms always returned. I used to say I would drink lye if I thought it would rid me of this beast. I had begun Dr. Teitelbaum’s program (author of the book, From Fatigued To Fantastic), that addresses Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia that I estimate would have easily cost me $30,000, all out of pocket, since probably no insurance company would cover the program. Even Dr. Teitelbaum warned that it could take as much as a year and a half to two and a half years to completely eliminate the problem.

From: ange2brighton <angela@...>Subject: [ ] New here and advice needed on which diet for eczema Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 2:09 PM

Hello, I am new here today so this is my first post! I have both the GAPS book and the BED book, have read both, but can't decide which diet to go for, especially since they have so many similarities.Basically, I have had eczema for many years, and also a lactose-intolerance. I would love to be rid of the eczema and also wonder if one day I could drink (raw) milk again.The main reasons I haven't started are because they both seem like a lot of work - I have two small children, work part-time and it is just much easier for everyone to eat the same thing. With the GAPS diet, I also have a problem getting organic grass-fed bones and marrow (I live in Switzerland) so would be unable to do that part of the diet.What I'd like to know is, since my problems aren't really severe is it possible that I wouldn't need to stay a long time on the diet? And is it possible to overcome a lactose-intolerance?

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Do you have to be super-strict with either of the diets or is a bit of sugar for

example maybe once a week/fortnight OK? I think what I find the most daunting is

having absolutely no sugar, dairy, gluten, etc for 4-5 months. And with

Christmas coming... how do you do it???

I did go dairy and wheat-free for 2 years once, though had the odd 'cheat' days

without affecting my eczema.

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Hi ,

Thanks for your reply. Do you think it's important to get bones/bone marrow from

organically-reared animals? I *can* find non-organic bones and Switzerland has

fairly rigid animal-rearing laws which means pretty much all cattle are

grass-fed.

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book and the BED book, have read both, but can't decide which diet to go for,

especially since they have so many similarities.

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I would love to be rid of the eczema and also wonder if one day I could drink

(raw) milk again.

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> > The main reasons I haven't started are because they both seem like a lot of

work - I have two small children, work part-time and it is just much easier for

everyone to eat the same thing. With the GAPS diet, I also have a problem

getting organic grass-fed bones and marrow (I live in Switzerland) so would be

unable to do that part of the diet.

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possible that I wouldn't need to stay a long time on the diet? And is it

possible to overcome a lactose-intolerance?

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