Aug

23

Keeping a Food Diary to Prevent Eczema

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You may consider keeping a detailed food diary recording down what you ate and at what times. This should help you in a systematic approach in determining what your food triggers are and hence prevent eczema from happening. Eczema skin reactions may be immediate after consuming a particular food or may take 24 hours to appear. I have also observed a full blown eczema happening to myself after 24 hours.

Your food diary should also include notes about the supplements that you are consuming. You may consider taking flaxseeds, evening primrose oil or zinc as they have been shown to produce beneficial healing and inflammation reduction results with eczema. Monitor your results and see if they have been helpful in reducing the incidence of eczema.

All this may sound like a lot of work. However, by keeping a close tab on your diet can you be closer to a nutrition plan that helps prevent eczema.

Read the full details of this in Diet and Nutrition to Prevent Eczema.

Aug

20

My Eczema Battles at Night

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During the day, my skin does not itch as much. It is in the night that my eczema skin gets really irritated.

The current treatment that I am undergoing now with my eczema has meant that I will wake up several times a night due to the intense itch. This has caused me to lose sleep by over a month now. Initially, it was really bad. I woke up once every other hour. This translates to waking up
about 3 times every night. Each time I woke up, I took about another 2 hours to fall asleep.

The intense itching at night caused me much distress. My neck will be inflammed, as will be my legs and hands. I know now what eczema pains are like. The pains were so severe that they were like a tight rope around my neck. I felt strangled. The itch was so bad that I felt a high level of stress as I tried to scratch my neck and hoping fervently, but to no avail, that the pain will subside.

I have also had a history of insomnia. Perhaps that is why I took so much to get back to sleep again. However, with exhaustion from itch that lasts for more than an hour, I will finally get back to sleep until the next eczema attack.

After six weeks of emu oil treatment, my sleep got better. Itching in the night still wakes me up but that has reduced to about 2 times a night. I also took less time to fall asleep. What a relief!

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