Blemishes
Blemishes such as eczema are an allergic disease; it’s more common in people who have other allergies, particularly asthma and hay fever. The best approach for controlling blemishes like eczema is similar to that of controlling other allergies. The first step is to try to identify allergenic foods. Women improve dramatically when they eliminate allergenic foods from their diet: Eggs, milk, dairy products, chocolate, peanut, soy, potatoes, and the glutens found in wheat, oats, rye, and barley are common offenders. An allergen-free diet should be followed for four to six weeks in order to allow improvements.
In infants, cow’s milk is the most common allergen, so it’s important to breast-feed babies as long as possible. In addition, if the parents of a child are allergic to certain foods, the baby may carry that allergy as well, and those foods should be avoided. It’s not uncommon for babies with eczema to develop chronic ear infections.
One recent well-controlled study on blemishes like eczema found that the food additive tartrazine can provoke eczema in some people, though the reaction is not common (sometimes it’s difficult to make a connection between blemishes like eczema and a particular cause because the symptoms can vary from one day to the next). It was reported that of the 12 children studied, one showed severe blemish / eczema symptoms after the ingestion of tartrazine. Tartrazine, or FD&C Yellow Dye No. 5, is found in many foods.
There’s a great deal of evidence that people with eczema have a problem with their digestion of essential fatty acids. Over half of eczema sufferers improve when they take evening primrose oil (as a supplement as well as topically). Evening primrose oil can relieve the symptoms of eczema and help to normalize the digestion of essential fatty acids.
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