I have exczema and my skin dries up and becomes all white and some times when ive been at work all day....?

Question

.... and i come home and change there are that many little bits of skin that have dropped off during the day that it looks like it has been snowing around my waste and sometimes my eyes can look really puffy with all the white looking skin around them.

Is this a reaction to somethign specific or is it just exczema and ive got to carry on with the creams?

just wondered if this rang any bells with any one and if it was related to one specific thing other than just being an exczema sufferer

thanks :)

and I also have what can only be described as lumps on my ankle where the skin has healed but healed in lumps so the outside is fine and clean but its hard and wont heal over normally so I have these lumps where my exczema has healed after its irritated me and I scratched it, anyone know why Ive got these lumps?

Answer 1

You must concentrate with what you eat. tomatoes, mushrooms aubergine and some fruits and dairy products are bad for eczema. drink plenty of purified water. wash all your cloths and bath in purified water. you can get a water purifier and fix it on to your main water system. so you will get the full benefit.

I hope this can help you.
If you can get gram flour ( from Tesco or any super market or Indian food store) as much as you want. pour Olive oil add yogurt mix them all well. Apply to your face and to the place most needed. ( try little first just to see if it's work for you ) leave it for awhile until it caked up. Then wash it away. After that you can use your medicated cream. Try this 3 time aweek

you must eat food which keeps your body less heat. Avoid ham Bacon sausages red meat wine or any kind of alcohol. Eat oily fish. Take cod liver oil.
All treatment takes it's time. So be patient and do what best for you.

Answer 2

My son who is now nearly 4 yrs has suffered with eczema since he was 14mths - when I stopped breastfeeding and used formula.

The only thing I have found that works like magic is Probiotics (friendly bacteria). I heard about it on an aussie morning TV program about trials they were doing in Perth, Aus.

Over the course of days and weeks it was miraclulous to see how his eczema just faded away leaving lovely healthy and soft skin.

I dont need to use any moisturisers or other medication, and he can eat normally as well.

I do now though try and buy all his food, drink (milk incld) organically. I also do not use commercial soap or shampoos on him. I also use Ecover for washing all of our clothing and bedding.

The milk formula seemed to start his eczema, but I find that it is chemicals that make it flare up. Though being on a probiotic supplement means that if he does get a flare up, it has gone by the next day.

When he was really bad he was on the highest dosage, he is now on the daily dosage and we have had absolutely no eczema since Aug last year. Previous to that I had done some experimenting with soaps and washing powders and when the eczema flared up I just increased his dosage.

The best Probiotic I have found - and one of the most reasonably priced is Natures's Way Primadophilus Reuteri (the Reuteri bacteria is the same bacteria found in human breast milk)
Primadophilus Bifidus also helps if you cant get the Reuteri.

Infacol in the Uk have now introduced a droplet version with Reuteri, but that actually works out more expensive.

I buy the capsules, then open them up and put into yoghurt, though my son can now swallow capsules.

We have tried all the other various treatments - but Probiotics has been the only one that works so brillantly, is completely natural.

Try this website, I purchase them from the USA
www.betterlife.com
Also do a search on yahoo or google: probiotics Eczema.

For soaps etc
try greenbaby.co.uk
naturebotts.co.uk
spiritofnature.co.uk



May also be worth having an allergy test.

Good Luck!!

Answer 3

I used to get eczema very badly, I'm in my mid 30s now, but had it severely as a child, it then came back to affect me for a couple of months every year in my 20s, I was told it would get better as I got older and it seems to have done. I used to wonder if it was things like washing powders, deodorants and soaps etc that made it worse, but I could never pin point a cause. I ended up using a combination of the creams from the docs, and a moisturing cream available in Europe called Seba Med, but I think it's just trial and error.
I really empathise with you, as I used to get very frustrated trying to work out if it was something specific causing it, or just a general eczema-ish reaction. Your description of what happened with your eyes sounds very familiar, my eyes used to get very itchy and the skin around them would flake off. All I can suggest is trying non perfumed 'sensitive' washing powers and soaps etc and keeping your skin moisturised. Also, have you tried finding a skin specialist in you area who could help. Best of luck.

Answer 4

I suffer with eczema and now i use Aveeno Cream, it costs about 8 pound but its well worth it.
It takes away the dry skin and all the flare ups u get aswell. Its made out of wheat and u can get it in Boots or any pharmacy or on presciption, - perscription is better if u dont have to pay!!
I work in a pharmacy so i recomened this to everyone with eczema, so far its worked for everyone ive told.
Give it a try - it works miracles.

Answer 5

Maintaining healthy skin is one of the most sought after traits in the United States today. Diets high in salt, fats, and animal products are contributing factors to unhealthy skin conditions. Additionally, genetics, hormonal imbalance, industrial pollutants, allergies, and stress can make your skin worse.

Many experts agree that cleaning up your diet and ensuring you have adequate levels of basic nutrients can help nutritionally support healthy and glowing skin. There are a few strong studies which show friendly bacteria, probiotics, greatly help this process.

The human body is an amazing machine that can and does cure itself of all kinds of debilitating illnesses when given proper nutrition.
John S. Bennett
http://www.4yourbody.info

Answer 6

Sorry to hear about your condition.

If you drink a lot of coffee that can affect you mentally. Stop you sleeping etc and thus cause stress without you even realising.

Diet can affect your skin.

If you start drinking hot water daily, you will see an improvement. The hot water acts as a detox and flushes your body of toxins.

Try this for a month. Mail me. I will be interested to hear hows you got on. [e-mail].

Good luck

Answer 7

I am sorry for you. It is not all that extreme, as the first person said, nor it is uncommon. Try using aqueous cream in the bath or shower in stead of soap or gels, and cool water to wash with and UV light and sea water might help - so go on holiday and strip off! My uncle had bad psoriasis all his life - really bad. He went ot Turkey and had a couple of Turkish baths, and his skin has never been so good. The advice to eat as much fruit and veg and drink water was good - but that is good advice for anyone to take anyway

Answer 8

I Have the same problem! I have a large patch on my arm which flairs up particularly when I am stressed. What I have found helps is using a sun bed or lamp. It helps with the deficiency of vitamin D that Eczema sufferers have. It really helped me to clear it up before my wedding in 2005. I also have heard that acupuncture helps ( if you are into trying herbal remedies) but if you haven't already, go see your doctor again.

Answer 9

I have suffered from Exczema since I was a little girl. The only bit of information that I can pass on to you is, do not use anything with fragance in it on your skin it's an irritant. Use unscented body lotion on a regular basis and before bed use cortizone cream on the area's that are really dry.

Answer 10

my son suffers from exczema, often really bad. he does get into the state where he gets the dry skin and it looks like he is flaking away. the only way he can sooth this is to bathe with oilatum oil in his bath and to plaster himself in moisturiser like e45 etc.
he has had the condition scince birth, tried everything under the sun to see if works. the only way he can help is to keep as clean and moist as possible. which for an 18 lad is sometimes not on the top of his list of things to do!!