My Holistic Tips To Conquer Eczema

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About thirty minutes ago, I was surprised to find a ton of comments that I have to moderate on this blog. Why this blog has not alerted me about the comments pending, I do not know. So I have gone ahead to approve most of the comments but wish to apologise if I have not gotten round to replying your questions individually.

Additionally, my email delivery system appears not to be working for the past one week. I’ve already requested for help from the company; so hopefully, I can resolve this problem soon.

Due to time constraints, I can only reply to some of the more common questions. I’ll also be explaining in a minute why I have been burying myself in the caves somewhat.

A couple of subscribers wrote to ask me if I am completely healed of my recent eczema flareup. Well, I’m glad to report that I’m on the recovery path. I hope to post some pictures in my next update.

What caused a minor flareup? I cannot declare with full certainty since I am not a medical doctor and will not be in a position to establish a direct link. My guess is that I had gotten back to eating some of my food triggers. These triggers have time and time again, proven to be toxic to my body. As a Singaporean, I’ve found it hard to give up on local favorites like laksa, mee siam and sambal prawns - all of which used the dried prawns ingredient. Sigh….

In the meantime, I’ve gotten back to my fruit-only diet in the morning. Dr Sebastian Liew also pointed out that oats is in the same family as wheat. I’ve been eating oatmeal for breakfast in the past few months and have given that up. Lunch is mostly salad. Dinner is rice with fish or chicken with vegetables.

I’ve also doubled up my efforts in moisturizing the affected part of the skin. Instead of 3 times, I can apply up to 6 times. I do the same for my daugther too. In the middle of the night, I will also sneak into the bedroom, to give her an extra dose of lubrication.

As for the leaky gut test, results only come out after a few weeks. Incidentally, Dr Liew is also away this month to Europe to upgrade his knowledge. I hope to be reporting more on these when I visit him next, upon his return to Singapore.

However, what I’m excited to share this time round in my bid to overcome my eczema, is that I found out that I had not given myself “permission” to be healthy. Those who have followed this blog will remember that I wrote sometime back on the mind-body-spirit approach to healing eczema. All this time, I have been continuing to clear past anger issues. An inability to forgive myself also surfaced during one of my inner healing sessions.

There are several layers to our emotions, apparently. It is necessary to remove them, to be completely free. Sometimes, layers can be peeled off in one go but sometimes, it is necessary to work on them layer by layer.

I was beginning to feel despondent over my inability to deal with my flareup. It was minor, to say the least but I was starting to fear that it would worsen. It then dawned upon me that there could be some missing elements in my subconscious mind that I had not looked at. Through my investigation, I found out that these were the thoughts that were holding me back:

- I am not healthy.

- I do not have the permission to be healthy.

- I do not have beautiful skin.

- I do not believe that I can conquer my eczema without the help of my doctor (since Dr Liew is away).

- I do not love how I look.

After clearing these issues, I noted that I had a turnaround. Interestingly, I also discovered that my daugther had similar negative thoughts.

After helping my daugther clear hers as well, I then help reinforce our subconsious minds with using positive affirmations. Together, my daugther and I will say simple sentences like:

- I am and choose to be healthy.

- I love myself and how I look.

- I have beautiful skin.

- I choose to release my negative emotions in a helpful way.

My daugther repeats after me. And the last I’ve checked, the more empowering thoughts are anchored in her belief system.

If you are interested to read more about inner healing, do check out my other blog here. I’ve chosen to spend more time writing self help articles because I believe that the mind holds the key to plenty of the problems that we face, including our physical health. While I continue to want to write on eczema issues, a greater proportion of my time is now spent on inner work. (So do forgive me if I now take a longer time to respond to emails. I feel that I can best serve the community if I continue to investigate the mind-body connection and report my findings.)

Amazingly, I am being called to a higher purpose; that is to help people out of their misery and suffering, and in the search for an abundant and more fulfilled life. In my case, eczema is an indication of repressed emotions waiting to be released. The fight to conquer eczema signified the beginning to a process of self discovery. From the pain and suffering, I found out much about myself. I’ve never looked at myself more deeply. Somehow, in that understanding, I discovered a higher purpose to my life.

The one sign of well being that my close friends can say of me is that I’ve never looked happier! And it’s true - I’ve never felt more at peace and joyful!

Mar

28

My Recent Eczema Flareup

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I seem to be having another round of mild eczema attack, although at a much smaller scale. The affected parts are now pretty much localised to my right and left heel and a spot on my upper right leg, that refused to go away even after 2 months. I had gotten a cut sometime ago on my upper right leg and I started to scratch it. The spot soon became bigger and as it appears today, it is about a circle measuring a radius of about 2 cm of slightly reddened and darkened skin, occassionally itching around the edges.

Here is my latest eczema picture on the heel of my right leg…

I attribute one of the triggers to food. I’ve become less vigiliant over the last 3-5 months as I just could not resist tucking in to a few of my known food triggers. If you need to know, I’ve got a weakness for sambal (chilli fried with dried prawns). It has been difficult for me to resist laksa or sambal chicken while watching my husband eat these delicacies! Not many hours later after some of these meals, I could feel a tingling sensation that soon set off a mild level of itch.

What luck, I thought, here’s my chance to do more investigation so that I can truly erradicate eczema.

So a couple of days ago, I consulted a Naturopathic doctor, who as I found out later, was also an ex-eczema sufferer. Dr Sebastian Liew runs the clinic somewhere near Holland Village, which is not too far from where I live.

I also brought my younger daugther along with me. She had been having a round of itching around the creases of the inside of her elbow.

As it was our first consultation, I had to fill up questionaires about our medical history. The questionaire was very thorough, asking everything from emotional to physical ailments previously suffered. Dr Liew explained that an eczema treatment is best based on a holistic approach because mental states such as emotional stress could also contribute to a flareup.

His diagnosis? Dr Liew observed that my case was at best mild. He recommended that I take the food allergy and leaky gut tests. A food allergy test will help to determine what food substances I should be avoiding, while a leaky gut test will help determine whether my gut is leaky and in need of repair. Dr Liew explained that the food allergy test done will require a blood sample.

My previous food allergy test was made using a non-invastive bio-feedback testing system known as the Avatar, done at least 3 years ago. (For those who are interested in finding out more about the Avatar, please refer to this site runned by Shazar Robinson, a practitioner from Australia whom I consult whenever she stops by in Singapore).

Just the thought of having blood taken from me, and even for the slighest dose, is enough to make me squeamish. I decided to give the food allergy test a skip as the cost of doing it is prohibitive and I was wondering if I could still rely on the results of my previous test with the Avatar. Perhaps I should check with Shazaar on its continued validity, I thought.

In the end, I bought only the kit for the leaky gut test plus the following supplements as recommended by Dr Liew:

1) EFAs (essential fatty acid)
EFAs help to hydrate the skin from the inside. The supplement that he put us on is a blend of evening primrose and fish oils.

2) Centella
Centella is a herb that is known to aid in the healing and repairing of skin wounds.

3) Probiotics.
Probiotics is to help improve gut flora, which may be in a state of imbalance causing eczema to show up as an indication.

4) Triphala.
Triphala is a blend of three Ayurvedic herbs (herada, amla and behada) used to promote digestion and for cleansing. It is also used to tonify the colon, thereby aiding in internal cleansing naturally.

For topical application, he prescribed me a spray which is made out of wheatgrass. As I’ve previously reported, wheatgrass has excellent skin enhancing properties due to its high chlorophyll content, found to be beneficial for detoxification.

For my daugther, Dr Liew suggested that she take the EFAs, probiotics as well as to topically apply wheatgrass cream.

Well, I came home laden with all these goodies. I had expected the consultation to be a short one but as it turned out, the visit lasted 1 1/2 hours. My daugther and I have started on our cocktail of supplements but it will be too prelimnary at this point to say if they are helpful or not. However, do stay tuned over the next few days on a post about the leaky gut test which I’ll be taking.

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