You guys - I was there a long time ago. For me the path to coping was a detox
diet and a selective discovery that the things I was allergic to were:

eggs, corn, msg, nitrates and sulphates, all processed foods, aspartame,
processed meats (pork sausages, corned-beef, pastromy, hams, beef jerky (if
additives) etc)-

Especially MSG and Aspartame - I was even brand sensitive to smokes - no wonder
as they put corn syrup and all kinds of goodies into the dressing on the tobacco
blends

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In 1989 I did a ten day ultra neutral diet. lamb, olive oil, peeled bananas and
apples, sume nuts and seeds, yogurt but no other dairy

-no grains whatsoever, and no cafeine (choc coff tea etc)

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Day three - five the symtoms got worse than perhaps ever before

Day six on - life became better and approached heaven - skin cleared, head aches
cleared, for the first time in my life I had crystal clear memorie recall and I
could read complex books with almost photgraphic recall. WOW.

On day ten I went to a neighbor form Bejing across the hall where we were
invited for dinner. Between a CN-FR dictionary and a FR - English, I figured
out the next day that yes she spices all the food with MSG. But my brake - fast
chinese dinner, gave me alternate warm and cold feet and opposite ears - one
side sweating the outher cold and clammy. It was amazing the severety of the
reaction.

In short, ever since then I cope by staaing away from processed foods, obvious
allegens (eggs, corn, msg etc) - Corn syrup is a scurge against humanity, but
Aspartame and Nutrisweet are WORSE.

I still drink too much coffee, but sports and clean living keep me sain.

Oh yeah, the grains and additives in wine and beer- I^ve been aa/na clean for
seven years now - and LIFE continues to get better one day at a time.

Perhaps time for another pilgrimage into 100% neutral diet again.

Good Luck All -



--- In eczemapsoriasis@yahoogroups.com, Susan Jong <vui_shan@...> wrote:
>
> Poor thing!
> I understand how you feel.
> It does get worst in the evening.
> I even scratched the itch till it bleeds and soiled my bed sheet most of the
time.
>
> I am having terrible itch too but I am controlling it with VICKS (ingredients;
petroleum jelly & menthol) and wearing my winter gloves to bed.
> Bathing with menthol mouthwash mixture works too.
> And for my scalp i kind of like Jason's Tea tree oil organic shampoo which is
SLS and soap free.
>
> Even have to beware on what you are wearing too!
> I do get bad itch on my bottom but it gets better without wearing underpants
to bed.
>
>
> Suez
>
>
>
>
> Janet Henry <jhe58864@...> wrote:
Sounds ghastly! poor you thank goodnessyu have a bit of relief - you deserve
it. never give up I say....IOt is a job to keep track of all the thngs one does
to try and help. i just do everything and hope. I am really well now. Best
wishes JH
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karen
> To: eczemapsoriasis@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:17 PM
> Subject: [eczemapsoriasis] Re: my wit's end!!!
>
> I can tell you how bad the itching is, but you will never know until
> you've experienced it. This is a bit on the graphic (gross) side, but
> at age 14, I would wake up in the middle of the night in a violent
> itching fit on the palms of my hands (nice place for a teenage girl
> to have it, too -- never would hold a boy's hand all through
> school!). The ONLY relief: Rubbing them so hard against the sharp
> corner of my nightstand that it shredded the skin completely off my
> hands before I stopped, and didn't even feel it -- UNTIL I stopped!
> My eczema is the 'mapping' type where large squares of skin would
> just peel off following the contours of the lines on my palms,
> leaving raw, weeping, bleeding skin behind. It would be WEEKS before
> my hands would heal enough for me to wash them properly without
> gasping and crying. I noticed that they would not itch any more until
> the skin started to heal over. Then, as soon as they reached a bit of
> a comfortable to touch point, the itching would start again. Shedding
> the skin was the only relief I could get at the time. Lidex ointment
> helped some, but I couldn't use it over too long a period of time
> according to doctor. Every trip to the MD caused violent reactions in
> my skin because a new round of 'something different' was prescribed.
> Not one of them, outside the Lidex, helped me one bit, and in fact,
> made it worse 99% of the time. I learned to live with it. But then, I
> had a baby who suddenly developed it. I couldn't stand watching him
> suffer the way I did. I decided I had to do something, and since not
> a BIT of treatment progress had come about over the past 20 years at
> that time, I was really aggravated and desperate to help my son.
> Soooo, I was off work one summer, and happened to read somewhere
> about an old, 100 year recipe for a balm that helped skin problems. I
> decided it was worth a try. I bought the ingredients, but I had to do
> a little research and change a couple since some of it was wild stuff
> and not available commercially, if at all. I read about all the herbs
> and their effects on the skin, and picked two sister plants to the
> originals and substituted them. It took me several weeks, but I
> finally found a fantastic combo of herbs that worked like a charm for
> me and him both! For the first time since I could recall, I slept all
> night without clawing some part of my body raw! I tried it on him
> too, and we both found instant relief. It's not a CURE -- nothing
> cures it. Eczema is sort of an auto-immune disease that responds to
> the environment-chemical and physical, oh, and psychological
> (stress). That's my understanding of it anyway. The most important
> thing to do first is to control the itching which reduces stress and
> allows healing to a certain point. After having suffered all these
> years with it, I'm tickled pink just to control the itching -- curing
> it isn't even a consideration anymore, so long as I can control the
> itching. That itching can cause you to wreck your car (nearly did
> that too), scream and snap at family members, feel as if you're going
> to explode, cause serious depression and anxiety, and many, many
> other things that are no good for you. Whatever you decide to put on
> eczema to control itching, make sure it's an ointment. My homemade
> ointment is made from pure beeswax and olive oil with essential oils
> and vitamin E (from a natural source). I extract the healing
> properties from Calendual, Chamomile and Lavender buds and flowers
> for over a 10 day period, slowly and surely coaxing out the good
> stuff. Patience is definitely a virtue here! It's a bit labor
> intensive, but it's worth it. I've tried the Burts Bees balm, but it
> has something in it that bothers my eczema, but it might help yours.
> The cost is high (mine and theirs and others too) but it is expensive
> and time consuming to make, so the cost is warranted. You can try to
> make your own by finding a natural healing book (Rosemary Gladstar
> has good books). If you're dedicated to it, you can master it. It
> isn't hard, just time consuming and expensive. for most people, it's
> cheaper and more convenient to purchase the ready made product, but
> do try to make it one time and see how it goes. You might enjoy it
> and be really good at it. If not, see my website. I'll ship a fresh
> batch to you same day. Good luck with it, I am very sympathetic to
> the pains of both eczema and psoriasis. I have both. I don't think I
> mentioned my psoriasis earlier, because it is pretty much under
> control. My eczema is much worse than the psoriasis, and by the way,
> the balm does not seem to help the psoriasis, just eczema, but I
> suggest trying it just the same. you never know what will help.
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