Is Dupixent an Immunosuppressant?
If you Google the question above, you get some interesting and disturbing answers. Both Healthline and drugs.com claim that …
All About Eczema
Cauliflower Tortilla Greek Wrap
If your child’s school provided lunches are as scary as my kid’s schools have been, you will definitely want …
Reducing the Burden of Eczema
The Heavy Burden of Eczema Having a child with eczema creates a massive stress on families that is difficult …
13 Eczema-Friendly Laundry and Cleaning Tips
Did you know that up to one in every five infants has eczema, and doctors estimate that between 10 …
Eczema vs. Psoriasis: What’s the Difference?
What if something scary was happening to your body and you didn’t even know what it was? That happens …
Eczema – The Effects of Food Dyes and Preservatives
Processed foods are everywhere, and most of us have no idea what’s in them. Many of the ingredients in …
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Natural Ways to Deal With Eczema On Hands
Did you know that topical corticosteroids’ common side effects include things like itching, easy bruising, thinning of the skin, …
The Real Cost Of Eczema
DR. JOHN’S VIEW Through 20 years of medical practice, I have watched patients navigate the complex world of health …
Getting Under Your Skin – Eczema and the Skin Microbiome
Medicine can be terribly humbling at times, particularly when treating children’s eczema. But I have found that often my most humbling patient experiences are also where I learn the most about managing this frustrating disease. I want to tell you Tyler’s story as it provides a wonderful picture of how both the skin and gut play a role in eczema.
The Problem with Dairy and Eczema
Our family traditionally drank an absurd amount of milk. We typically would drink a gallon and half of milk per day, and sometimes more. When the kids came in from playing outside, we would quench their thirst with a big glass of cold milk rather than water. Each night my husband would eat several bowls of cereal before bed. We were drinking skim milk because the food industry had tricked us into thinking all fat was bad. Then we shifted to organic whole milk as the first step toward cleaning up our diets. But our inflammatory conditions remained despite the cleaner dairy products. It wasn’t until we were forced to remove dairy as part of my daughter’s eczema treatment program that we noticed the biggest changes. Her skin rapidly improved, my belly felt better, and my husband noticed his joint pain was better! Now I am not sure we can chalk all that up to dairy removal, but I definitely think there was a link.
