i have eczema. I only get it int he winter when its cold) and it goes away by spring but its spring bow and i haveeczema still? Is there a natural cure for this?
Are you the parent of a child or teenager that has eczema? If so, get use to stares on the playground and whispering from other parents. Unfortunately, many people mistakenly believe eczema is a contagious skin condition, but it is not. In fact, you may need to start a discussion with other parents to stop the worry.
It is your decision as to whether you want to wait until other parents ask you about your child’s rash or if you want to start the discussion yourself. Either way, continue reading on for a few helpful talking points.
A great way to discuss your child’s eczema with other parents is to share what you know. Eczema is inflammation of the skin. Basically, your child’s skin is irritated. Tell other parents that there are many reasons for eczema, including the weather, airborne allergens, and contact with certain chemicals. Close contact with the skin results in itching, only your child can’t stop, so a rash develops. As dangerous looking as that rash may look, it is harmless to others. Eczema is not contagious. In fact, your child is at the most risk. If they have an open wound that is left uncovered, the risk of infection increases.
If you don’t want to go all medical on other parents, compare eczema to traditional allergies. When most of us think of allergies, sneezing and stuffy noses come to mind. These are a body’s reaction to something it doesn’t like. With eczema, the skin does the same. Your child’s skin comes into contact with something it doesn’t like, something that irritates the skin surface. That is why your child feels the need to itch and scratch, resulting in a rash.
The biggest concern that other parents have about eczema is their children catching it. Regardless of how you discuss eczema, ensure everyone knows it isn’t contagious. In addition to comparing the skin condition to allergies, compare it to a small cut on the skin. It is harmless to others. There is no reason why your child can’t be a normal kid and play with others because they suffer from atopic dermatitis.
Taking to other parents about eczema will help in social situations, but it won’t cure your child’s eczema. Do to that, always be on the lookout for trigger factors. In the meantime, use all-natural relief methods, such as moisturizer and skin healthy foods, to help your child seek relief.
Kathy Davison
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ok i am a 20 year old girl and i am really beauty conscious!!i have a lot of upper lip hair ..i actually am very hairy!! all over my body 🙁 its like one big curse in my life…and due to constant hair removal my upper lip has become darker compared to my face..:( and some girls constantly keep asking me about and it makes me feel soo so horrible!! i never wear sleeve less tops because the horrible eczema from which i suffered has left behind few scars… my life would have been so much simpler if i hadn't been this hairy..and i would have had so much more confidence…it is completely inhibiting me from showing the world who i truly am! no guy wants a girl with a moustache like me !may be tats y no guy EVER has asked me out …:'(..
My little sister is 6 and is in a new school after we moved during the summer. She has really really bad eczema and mom bought her short sleeved shirts because her arms are really bad and when she went into school she got into trouble from the teachers. Mom went into talk to the principal and she told her that the school has rules. That they must be obeyed with no exceptions.
My sister has not gone into school this week because she has been sick from fear of the pains in her arms with the long sleeved shirts. Mom is worried because she wont be allowed back into school with a short sleeved shirt and the long sleeved ones hurt her arms because she sweats a lot in them and her arms blister.
Please help!
If you suffer from eczema, you want itch relief and you want it now. You may be willing to try anything to seek relief. While you have many choices, there are benefits to treating your eczema with home remedies.
Benefit #1 – Your Options
The phrase “home remedies,” encompasses a lot. Typically, home remedies are used to describe common practices that you can do at home. They are often compared to synthetic medications, which may lead to troubling side effects.
Since many practices can be classified as home remedies, you may wonder what can get you relief. Get started with moisturizing. Take a bath or a shower, lightly dry your skin leaving part of it damp, and apply moisturizer. You lock in the moisture from the shower or bath. Changing your diet also qualifies as a home remedy. Eczema sufferers find success with a skin healthy diet that includes blueberry extract, vitamin E, and low-acid foods.
Benefit #2 – Affordability
Whether you buy products over-the-counter at a drug store or receive a prescription from your doctor, there is likely a hefty price tag attached. You could easily spend $1,000 or more just in one year trying to cure eczema and still be left with the uncontrollable urge to itch. Yes, home remedies do cost money, but you will find their costs significantly lower. There is no need to go broke trying to seek relief, so don’t!
Benefit #3 – Fewer Risks
As previously stated, synthetic medications usually have a long list of potential side effects. Do you really want to subject your body to these? No and that is why home remedies are great for eczema. By this point in time, you are well aware of any allergies to food and chemicals. This means you can moisturize your body without worry and alter your diet to see success. With home remedies, there is no need to worry about stomach bleeding, diarrhea, or other common side effects of synthetic medicines.
Benefit #4 – No Need for Costly Doctor’s Appointments
With the exception of a skin infection caused by eczema, medical treatment is not needed. You can and should treat it from home. Best of all, home remedies not only enable you to avoid expensive doctor’s appointments, but you are in control. This works to your advantage, as you know your body best, not a doctor who can barely remember your name.
Kathy Davison
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Luckily, there are many natural remedies that have proven effective for treating eczema, 5 of which are outlined below.
Proper bathing and showering is key to not only treating eczema, but preventing more outbreaks. Most medical professionals recommend short showers or baths. Lukewarm water with no bath bubbles is advised. Eczema suffers should also limit the amount of scented shampoo, conditioner, and soap they use. Opt for all-natural or organic instead. Although not necessarily an all-natural cure, lotions and creams should be applied immediately following a bath or shower to lock in the moisture.
Natural Remedy for Eczema #2 – Drink Plenty of Water
Lukewarm baths and showers have their benefits because they moisturize the skin. Lotions and creams can help keep this moisture locked in. Don’t just moisture your body from the outside, but the inside too. The most natural and easiest way to do so is to drink lots of water. Keep your body hydrated and it will help your skin, making eczema easier to manage.
Natural Remedy for Eczema #3 – Take Oatmeal Baths
Above it was stated that short baths and showers are recommended. The only exception to this is when oatmeal is used. Oatmeal tends to have a calming effect on the skin. There are all-natural oatmeal bath product sold at most department stores and drug stores, but you can easily make your own mixture. Honestly, the oatmeal sold at supermarkets will do. Add two or three cups to a bathtub filled with lukewarm water.
Natural Remedy for Eczema #4 – Watch What You Need
Watching what you eat is a natural way to fight off eczema. Unfortunately, you may run into some problems. You want to eat skin healthy foods, but some of these foods may trigger an outbreak or flare-up. For example, fruits are known to help against premature aging, but seeded fruits are a common eczema cause. You should keep a daily log of your food and drink consumption. Use this to determine what you ate or drank before each outbreak. If you notice a pattern, permanently adjusting your eating habits.
Natural Remedy for Eczema #5 – Use All Natural Supplements
All-natural supplements have proven helpful in many eczema patients. In fact, some swear by them. What you want to do is research natural supplements that can help treat or cure eczema. Good examples include fish oil, vitamin E, and vitamin C. Then, work on adding these supplements into your diet. Do so slowly and one at a time, so you know which works and which doesn’t. Supplements come in over-the-counter format, but most are found naturally in foods too.
Kathy Davison
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As we all know the new school year and college year is upon us with new courses, new friends, new lecturers and new challenges ahead !
This morning as I filled out the electronic register for a second year Health studies class that I had just met I was informed of someones absence because of a hospital visit for Eczema.
I was assured by the students that it was not that bad really as it was just all over her arms and legs but not all her body!…poor Girl.
One of my past colleagues in Spain also suffered from Eczema and there were many days that she was just in pain all over her body and struggled with getting through the day.
Now I do not know about you but that is quite a thing to carry around on a daily basis.
Having Eczema was also one of the reasons why this friend of mine was living in Spain as she believed that exposure to sunlight helped to alleviate the condition.
So what exactly is Eczema?
Well if you do a search on Google, many website will pop up that will tell you that Eczema symptoms include
dry skin that may become itchy, red and inflamed. It’s most commonly found in children, although adults can get it.
There are different types of Eczema. The most common is called atopic eczema… or atopic dermatitis.
There also seems to be a relationship between stress and flareups of Eczema.
When I relayed this observation to the class it was greeted with much amusement and I was assured that the student concerned was the most laid back girl in the class.
Well I think maybe I will be the judge of that !
Eczema is often caused by an allergy, which occurs when your immune system overreacts to something that is normally harmless.
It is these allergic reactions, that make your skin itchy.
Conditions, like asthma, hay fever, and food intolerance, are also caused by allergies.
As I mentioned about my colleague in Spain who was living there because of her Eczema…. there is a belief that
low vitamin D may be linked with eczema and other allergies. Ultraviolet light causes the body to make vitamin D and so areas with high sunlight produce more Vitamin D and so the occurrence of Eczema should be lower.
If this is clinically true then it makes sense that exposure to more UV light might lower the risk of these conditions,
I know that my friend definitely had an improvement in her Eczema while living in Spain but at the moment there is not really enough evidence to be sure
To investigate this further, research Studies have been done on 7,643 children aged 4 to 5 and 8 to 9 in different regions of Australia,where the amount of daylight sun varied greatly,
They looked at how common food allergies, eczema, and asthma were in these areas, to see if there is a link between sunlight and these conditions.
The results showed that eczema, peanut allergies, and egg allergies were more common in those who lived furthest south, where there was the least sun
In fact the rates of occurrence of cases was twice as likely with peanut allergies or eczema, and three times as likely to have an allergy to eggs, compared with those who lived far north in the areas with more sun.
What was interesting was the figures showed no difference between regions in how likely children were to have asthma,or the other food allergies the researchers studied, which included allergies to cow’s milk, soy, sesame, and wheat.
The researchers felt that this could be because these allergies develop in a different way to eczema and other food allergies.
Ok… so can we say this is conclusive results?
The data comes from a large number of children, which usually makes results more reliable. The researchers also studied children who lived in different areas, but within the same country with the same health system and similar social background.
However they used used questionnaires to ask the parents of the children about the conditions and allergies, and we can’t be sure how accurate the information was. It may have been more reliable to collect information from the children´s medical records,where one could have looked only at allergies that had been diagnosed by a doctor.
Also, how can we be sure that the children in the high sun regions had a lower risk of these conditions because of their sun exposure. There could have been other variables involved such as diet and family history and also other factors in the environment
So yes it does suggest that high sunlight is good for keeping Eczema at bay
Of course we must also remember that more exposure to sum increases the risk of skin cancer …
there we go again …….can,t win can we ?
As I sat through a three hour meeting listening to a system about student placements being explained that was so complicated and boring it was amusing …then I just had to put pen to paper and record the way I felt.
In the last 2 years I have taken a career break from lecturing in a college and have taken myself off to te
ach in an International school in Spain.
A private school with 300 pupils and 30 staff.
Now having arrived back in the college in N. Ireland and getting ready for the new academic year after 2 years away, it has become increasing clear to me that people no longer talk to people.
Ok …let me explain what I am trying to say. When I joined the college 8 years ago it was a college that served the local community. Systems were not so computerized and many messages and requirements were relayed verbally from one person to another. The college was small enough that we could do that. To be fair it did present a few challenges but we muddled through, had a few laughs and generally achieved what we had set out to do.
Then some years ago the college joined with three other colleges to become a larger identity and of course more efficient than the local version that had gone before.
So did that happen?
Well let me elaborate and then you be the judge.
Everything is now computerized… we take on board one system after another, we email each other which saves time as we do not have to find each other and verbally communicate the problem or ask the question. Forty emails a day is normal.
So I sit in this meeting for three hours listening to this very sophisticated system being explained and I am wondering why I have been back at the college for three days and still have not been able to get a password to log onto my account?
Three or four emails sent from my head of school to another staff member in some other campus, in some other room on some other floor, then roughly 3 or 4 messenger emails and still no password.
In the school in Spain to get a password for my account I walked down a flight of stairs to the ground floor, spoke to Jero the IT technician and it was set up in 30 secs…..Hooray for Jero!
As I sit in this terribly boring meeting listening to this complicated and lengthy system on organizing placements I make a decision on the coffee break to hunt down one of these techie people and get them to set me up a password .
There was a rumor going round at coffee that one was in the building.
So off I head and a few floors down managed to find one behind his computer.
Viola! I had a password set up in 30 seconds and even more than that …it works!
So back to the meeting room to listen to another hour of…. ticking off this box here, choose this from the drop down menu here, typing this in here and if you take a breath make sure you record it
I drifted off into a daydream wondering
Has this organization now become so large in an effort to become efficient that the core elements of human communication are being eroded?
While we sit for hours listening to the complexities of the latest system that someone has dedicated their life to, it has taken me three days, many emails and messengers to set up a simple password!
Something that was achieved very quickly in the end with just with a little verbal communication.
The word “old fashioned” or “old school” may have crossed your mind and I forgive you for that but you are wrong…… I love technology.
As a Biology and Health lecturer you can imagine that my subject is very visual and I use all sorts of media to get the message across to my students. Technology and particularly media has made a massive difference to my classroom teaching, I would say it has made my teaching easier.
That is not what I am talking about here. Where I am going with this is the fact that there seems to be a race on to see how many systems can be created for tasks that were initially done manually. Tasks like filling out a form, making a telephone call and talking to someone or meeting them in person.
Tasks that are no more efficiently done by making them complicated computerized tasks which in the final analysis only succeed in creating a greater administrative workload for the educator that has to do them.
When I relayed this observation to my colleague ..I was enlightened by her response with the instructions from “the top”
“If you are under a lot of pressure and it comes between the administrative task and the teaching task then make sure you do the administrative task”
Guess that says it all!
Spain I miss you !!!