You may ask me what this has to do with eczema and I say everything? Over the years I have been learning about the body through my studies and general interest and everything starts from within. Even though the Dr. say I have atopic eczema they have no idea why. I had it as a child and I grew out of it, it never made sense to me that as soon as I had the children I developed this chronic state that has never left me since, as a child I never had it chronically so it is funny as an adult I'm in a worse place.
So I was put in contact with a family friend whom is a nutrutionist and she suggested detoxing to flush out my toxins and start taking a herbal medicine called Moringa Oleifera which is 'known around the world as rich vegetable source of protein. It contains 18 amino acids including all 8 essential amino acids. It has 40 active antioxidants and a profile abundant with phyto-functional nutrients and trace elements'. Further info available at www.moringasource.com
I know I said I wasnt buying any more products but anything that is completely natural I'm all for that, it's an overall benefit of the body not just eczema!
I think I'm looking at the bigger picture now rather just focusing on the eczema cause it came from somewhere.
So this is where I am at, my favourite change so far has been the juicing. I am consuming in the form of juice foods I wouldn't normally eat and I actually feel good i.e. celerey, ginger, spinach etc all in it's raw form and I'm eating loads more fruit. Even cutting out meat hasnt been a problem and I love meat i.e. chicken and turkey I cut out red meat many years ago. I think in the future I may still eat fish but on a minimal basic.
For further info about juicing I watched a lot of youtube videos (one in particular is 'theliferegenerator' if you are interested in looking into it, he has over 1500 videos on raw foods and juicing) he explains the benefits of juicing which I haven't detailed here but overal it will flush out your system and help it work effectively from the nutrients, vitamins and enyzmes founds in the fruit and vegetables. Im still learning and at the early stages but anything green is good, this is the one vital thing I have learnt. I have also a few books of interest again about the body rather than eczema and the focus is detox and cleaning it up.
Early this month I had my routine visit at the dermatologist and I laid my cards on the table and asked them what can you really do to help me and they couldnt answer the question apart from offering me more drugs (in this case they offered me Mycophenolate Mofetil) which wont cure but suppress the condition and I then will need to have regular blood tests to make sure my kidneys are ok. I declined and they encouraged me to think about it, which I have and I still declined because I told them I cannot deal with the emotional rollacoaster the drugs put me in. The false sense that my skin is getting better and really it isnt, because as soon as I stop the drugs it come right back and I then have to learn how to deal with it after spending months enjoying nice skin.
But what I did request was information on how to really use the steriod creams everyone assumed that because I had used the creams for so long I was taught how to use it and I have never been taught especially for long term use. I recommend everyone who is on long term use of steroid cream to ask the nurses to write down how to use it effectively.
So that is it, I due to go back to the dermatologist in May and they will review whether I want to use the drugs which will still be no! and they will probably sign me off, pending my allergy testing results. I have requested for this to be done, so I'm getting them done whilst I'm still in the system.
My hands at present are ok, bad but ok! the lichenfication I have has lessened so the appearance is not as bad as it can be I load up a picture.
So my future plans are to keep up this clean diet which I will not place a name to i.e. vegetarian, vegan because I dont even know what I am at the moment! and see what happens.
