Home Remedies For Eczema

Home Remedies For Eczema

Home remedies for eczema usually require simple ingredients to treat the external condition as well as the underlying causes.

What causes eczema?

Eczema is actually atopic dermatitis, but the word eczema is used for all kinds of skin disorders. Eczema usually displays itself with:
  • overall dry skin
  • patches of flaky skin
  • red patches of extremely dry, itchy, cracked or bleeding skin

The eczema itself is the symptom of something else awry in our body. The problem is trying to be eliminated through the skin. Home remedies for eczema such as these will help the body to eliminate these toxins and to relieve the dryness and itching.

For some, eczema is genetic, but for most it is a sign of allergies. Those who have eczema also have higher levels of serum IgE. We all produce serum IgE, but those with allergies produce larger amounts. High levels of serum IgE is the indicator of allergies.

Another cause can be the fact that some people cannot metabolize EFAs (essential fatty acids), which produce prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are anti-inflammatory in nature.

Most of the time we just want a quick fix and get a prescription for some cortisone cream (a steroid) from the doctor. I have problems with this.
  • It doesn't deal with the underlying cause of the disorder.
  • Constant use of cortisone cream can permanently thin the skin.
  • Know that the skin is not a barrier, whatever we put onto our skins does go into our bloodstream.
These home remedies for eczema are natural and help provide nutrition and support to the skin, purify the blood, and provide anti-inflammatory relief to skin disorders.

Home Remedies For Eczema

Blood Purifier Tincture
Any kind of skin eruption requires a little help to purify the blood. These are herbs which strengthen the blood building organs, namely the liver and spleen. Since skin conditions are the body's way of eliminating impurities from the blood, than the blood purifier herbs help the process along quicker and with less discomfort.

Essential Fatty Acids and Zinc
Supplementing with Evening Primrose Oil, Flax Oil, or fish oils will all help to restore healthy levels of essential fatty acids in the body as well as offer anti-inflammatory properties. Zinc helps with the metabolism of the essential fatty acids.

Whole foods
Whole foods should be consumed, avoiding the chemicals in processed foods.

Determine allergies
Discovering what foods you are sensitive to requires a visit to a doctor. You can also determine this by an elimination diet. Elimination diet simply means avoiding one food at a time for a good 3 or 4 weeks and then reintroducing it. If that food is the culprit you should notice eczema symptoms lessen over the 3 or 4 weeks and then come back when the food is eaten again. Foods that people tend to be allergic to are wheat, dairy, eggs, peanuts and soybean.

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No more smelly laundry detergent containing all kinds of perfumes to irritate the skin! Here is a simple homemade laundry soap recipe that uses all natural ingredients. Safe on the skin and the pocketbook!

Oatmeal Bath
Use an oatmeal tea bag in the tub when bathing. Soaking with oatmeal helps reduce itchiness. Just place a 1/2 cup of oatmeal in a muslin bag and place in tub. Add some burdock root or dandelion root to the bag to increase the effectiveness.

You can get burdock root and dandelion root at Mountain Rose Herbs

Herb Poultice
This poultice can be used on irritated skin. It will help relieve itchiness and inflammed skin. Don't let the word "poultice" scare you, all it is is an herb tea bag! The herbs to put in this bag are comfrey, licorice, and calendula. I'll show you how to make it!

Chamomile Compress
Chamomile is very effective at treating eczema. Just soak a tea bag and apply it to the inflammed skin. Chamomile offers soothing relief to the itchy skin of eczema.

Moisturizing Body Oils
After the Oatmeal Bath or Herb Poultice, apply a natural body oil. A good one that I've used for my grandson when he had some eczema is avocado oil. You can also make the Moisturizing Body Oil recipe combining a few oils and put in a pretty bottle for home remedies for dry skin.

Using these home remedies for eczema should offer some relief!
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