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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think it’s very telling that Americans would rather smear their children with steroids instead of laying off the Doritos and whatever fell into the vat at the Kraft factory.[/b] I battled on and off horrible eczema for 20 years due to a gluten and dairy allergy and then topical steroid withdrawal in my late twenties for two years because my parents were told food allergies couldn’t possibly be causing my skin issues and to just smear on more creams. Children don’t NEED junk, they eat it because parents are lazy and don’t want to cook. Kids are perfectly fine with fresh fruit and vegetables and meat and fish. An apple and some carrot sticks is a snack, not Pirates Booty and granola bars that have more sugar that a Snickers. The western diet is killing all of us slowly, the rest of the world sees it, Americans just refuse to admit it. [/quote]

This made me laugh and is unfortunately true. I am with you, I had eczema as a kid and it sucked and I wish I’d made the dietary connection sooner than my 20s. I am eczema free now and can still eat smaller amounts of dairy but not nearly as much as before. I still shudder thinking of the ever present, greasy steroid creams of my youth[/quote]

There's so much idiocy on this thread. OP says her kid can't eat "wheat, dairy, eggs, corn, tomatoes, chocolate, nuts, preservatives, annatto, sorbitol"

Ok so no Kraft cheese for her kid. But no wheat? No dairy? No eggs? I'm one of the PPs with kids with eczema. Contrary to what you people think I don't actually load my kids up with Fruit Loops. But guess what? Wheat, dairy, eggs, corn, tomatoes and nuts are actually healthy foods! Or are we supposed to eliminate all of that as well?

OP sounds like she has orthorexia and Munchausen's by proxy quite frankly. [/quote]

Well…yes, actually.  Yes, a child can be allergic to healthy foods…and those reactions can include eczema flares.
I’m a PP who has a toddler who is anaphylactic to egg.  Upon her (frankly very terrifying) anaphylactic reaction upon her very first bite of scrambled egg at 9mo, we were referred to a pediatric allergist.  One of the first questions he asked was about eczema.  She’d had severe eczema on her face and back that we managed with triamcinolone, but it magically cleared up when she weaned ar around 7mo.  I ate tons of egg while breastfeeding.  Scrambled, omelets, egg in baked goods, casseroles, etc.  Her allergist is of the opinion that the severe eczema that we dealt with for the first 7 months of her life was tied to exposure to egg protein through my breastmilk.
I’m sick of people pretending allergies aren’t legit.  Trust me, I would rather NOT have a young child dealing with a life-threatening allergy to a food as difficult to avoid as eggs.[/quote]

It frankly boggles my mind as well that people still don’t believe in food allergies to what they consider “healthy foods”. They can absolutely exacerbate eczema and of course cause anaphylactic reactions. because they cause inflammation. There’s a reason that companies are required to label things like eggs in processed foods and why schools don’t allow nuts. Most doctors and dermatologists have very little training in nutrition. If you’re lucky to find a health professional that reads the latest research, it’s a different story. I still remember when doctors would dismiss probiotics after antibiotic treatment and now it’s standard practice to recommend it. For years the food guidelines in the US were absolutely wrong and we pushed low fat diets because the sugar industry bribed Harvard into publishing BS studies.[/quote]

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