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Children's Eczema doubles and nobody knows why??? This is CRAZY!

Locust Fork
My grandson has eczema.....none of my kids had this issue.   We cannot name a single person in our family that has had this problem until him.     What bothers me are the numbers of people I am hearing that have kids with this these days.    I even ran into a stranger at the park this past weekend who had a 2 year old with a worse case than our 2 year old has.    

Its VERY bothersome and you feel just horrible for the babies dealing with it.    Our grandson had little red patches here and there as an infant, but now that he is older he can scratch and it has gotten harder to manage.    The tops of his feet are the worst areas by far.....you cannot let him have access to his feet or he will scratch the tops until they are a bloody mess.    Its heartbreaking to say the least.   

So, we are constantly slathering him down with the best salves we can get our hands on......dabbing neosporin here and there .....footie pjs with socks on.....diluted bleach baths from time to time....and when it gets really bad they get the topical steroid creams for him.   

I just wonder HOW this has grown to be an issue with our kids?      Is it chemicals in our foods.....pollution.....what on EARTH has done this to our children???      You cannot tell me there isn't some reason for the number to double like it has.    

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/eczema/news/20141124/eczema-cases-rising-among-us-children-report#1
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  • bustedknee
    My grand sons, and their friends, have all kinds of allergies.  I personally think babies get their immunity from mother;s milk.  If they are going to sell milk for babies it should be real mother's milk not a chemical concoction. 

    I am also convinced we are killing ourselves with food additives.  I have suffered daily headaches my entire life.  Since going on the caveman diet (If I don't shoot it, catch it, or grow, it I don't eat it - Yeah, its a difficult diet) I have actually had multiple days without a headache.  Wow!  What a feeling.

    Try cutting salt out of your diet for a week and see if your skin clears up.  Just try it and let us know.
    I had "dry skin", per the GQB (Greedy Quack Bastard) where my fingers would crack and bleed.  Until I cut out salt.
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  • Ditch-Runner
      I hope you find a way to clear it up or control it . my mom told me whaen I just a baby I had it on the side of my head but so far the rest of life it has never came back    i agree  to the what we come in contact with think of the chemicals added to every thing we eat or touch 

    as for salt I dump it on every thing (  and yes I have had bypass surgery ) a couple years back my BP was so low I could hardly stand up went to the doc  and  then my cardiologist . he said well I can give you some drugs that have nasty side effects . or try  eating  more salt    LOL    I told him I was not sure it was possible but  I would do it .. 
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  • Locust Fork
    Give this stuff a try......Waxelene....its the BEST we have had so far.       Dealing with a 2 year old we've had to make sure its something he can get in his eyes and eat without worrying about what he's got smeared all over his hands.   He spent this past weekend with us and his hands both had two fingers that were bright red with flare ups....so I was smearing this on him every time I could get him to let me.

    https://waxelene.com/collections/retail


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  • susie

    Kasey, we struggled with the skin of daughter #2 for years. When she was older for some reason I can't recall she switched to almond milk from regular milk. Her skin began to clear up. She noticed this and cut back on cheese as well. Skin improved even more.


    Now she watches her intake of dairy to include yogurt and her skin has stayed fairly clear. She lives cheese and yogurt so she does indulge on occasion.

    Might try the no dairy route for a couple of weeks and see if there is improvement. Multiple doctor visits and prescription creams only treated the symptoms for my daughter. They never pinpointed the cause.

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  • mohawk600
    Another consideration is that in this modern age we are exposed to chemicals unknown one hundred years ago......on a regular basis. Don't discount environmental exposures.
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  • BobJudy
    Sometimes switching to a no additive laundry detergent helps. Also fabric softener can cause problems. If that is the problem then socks and footie PJs can increase the problem. Simple things to try and can't hurt anything. Bob
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  • Mobuck
    " If they are going to sell milk for babies it should be real mother's milk not a chemical concoction. "

    Sign me up as a recruiter for those dairies. "hands on" inspection of every applicant.
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  • Locust Fork
    Its been a long drawn out ordeal and they've tried to alter his diet to see if it helped.    He started breaking out almost immediately after he was born......maybe two weeks old.     It gets worse and better in a matter of hours sometimes.    He will be clear.....then in a few hours the bends of his elbows will be bright red patches.    I think we are lucky its not happening to his face.    The poor baby that we saw at the park had it on his face and his chin had a scab.     
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  • gjshaw

    This is what my parents used for eczema on me when I was a little kid.

    Bag Balm

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    This is something else that is good for skin problems.


    porter's salve

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  • dpmule
    So, my eldest son married a girl that eczema runs bad from her fathers side of the family.
    She has it and so do all four of the kids two girls, two boys 12 down to 4,to varying extents, from small patches on legs, arms, to very bad ones behind the ears on the eldest granddaughter.She has tried many things, changes in diet, creams, ointments, etc, some with limited success, some basically a complete waste of money.
    Her pediatrician suggested this, and  it's been working
    Her sister had a baby recently and has been nursing, she will pump and give my DIL a jar of breast milk and DIL will mix it with cortisone cream and rub it on out break areaswith absolutely amazing results on hers and the kids both.
    Not sure if it's enzymes or what in the breast milk, but it has far more successful result than just the application of the straight cortisone cream.
    I know availability and access to breast milk will be a limiting factor, but I know my DIL has enjoyed the relief that it has given her and the kids.
    Just one families story.

    Mule
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  • Butchdog2
    My BIL had it bad when he was a child some 70 years ago, goats milk fixed it for him.
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  • susie
    I noticed the advertising of A2 milk and got curious so I looked it up for more information.  Interestingly this is what I found:

    Milk is a good source of protein, containing 8 grams (g) per 8-ounce (oz) glass. The two major proteins in milk are casein and whey.

    Casein accounts for about 80 percent of the protein in milk. There are also different types of casein, one of which is called beta-casein.

    Beta-casein makes up about 30 percent of the protein in cow’s milk. A1 and A2 are two variants of beta-casein.

    Historically, cows produced milk that contained only the A2 form of beta-casein. Today, most of the milk available from the local grocery store contains mostly A1 proteins.


    I'm wondering if this might be one of the reasons we are seeing a rise in inflammatory reactions to milk.

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  • hillbille
    don't know it it has anything in common but most of us growing up had either the chicken pox or the vaccine, I don't think they do either for kids now. with it causing shingles in older folks just wonder if having it or the vaccine may help with not getting or reducing eczema????
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  • Butchdog2
    Thoughts.
    Look around at the younger ladies you see, 8 to 12 years in age, they seem to be getting the coke bottle shape much younger and boys more tater shaped. I would bet the GMO's that we feed the animals in the food chain are being passed on to the human animal. And no I am not a child molester,  I have yung'uns in my family.
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  • Smitty500mag
    The population today is 328.2 million people. In 1960 the population was 180.7 million. So there is about twice, minus a few million people, as there was back then which might be the reason you see double the cases of Eczema. 
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  • Locust Fork
    I cannot help but be concerned about the prevalence of this these days.    I can understand if there was an explanation.....like a common medication that mothers took while they were pregnant or if they saw it happening in specific areas, but to have it just double in numbers without it being a major news story makes me worry that whatever is causing this will go on and on and more people will suffer.


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  • Butchdog2
    Yes and the time it takes for "news" to travel from point A to point B is milliseconds instead of days.
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  • Mobuck
    Multiple generations of people raised inside could be the answer. No exposure to the outside world and it's allergens. Processed food and treated water. Air conditioning and enclosed loop winter heat.
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