Re: Childhood excema, Please take a look at my son's diet

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I have a 2.5 year old son who up until about 1 month ago was not having any skin

problems. He has always had very sensitive skin like me, but never anything

that couldn't be fixed by switching to a natural detergent. Over the last month

though, he has started getting a skin rash that looks very much like excema to

my untrained eye. It comes and goes and I was relating it to how much " junk " I

allowed him to have. (snip) I don't keep processed foods in our home, so as

long as we stayed home and didn't go out too much it r! eally hasn't been a

problem. But, we have been home

all week, and he hasn't had any junk, but this morning, his rash appeared on his

arms, and it looks worse than it has been in awhile. So, I was hoping if I

write down what he eats during the day, someone can offer some insight into what

he may not be getting that he needs, or perhaps, what I need to take out.

I hate to say this -- but this sounds very similar to what we experienced with

our 2 year old daughter. We recently found out she has multiple food allergies,

which were causing her eczema and diarrhea. What you might want to do, is to

keep a detailed food diary for a couple of weeks, including his symptoms, and

look for patterns which might give you a clue as to the cause of his rash. You

might also consider adding a bit of variety to his diet. Even if you can't

purchase all organic, pasture-fed foods, giving him more variety to his meals

might limit exposure to whatever is irritating his system. I know my kids like

to eat only their favorite, familiar foods all the time, but variety helps

eliminate sensitivities, and also provides a greater nutritional support to

their growing bodies.

HTH

Rebekah

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,

If it were me, I'd remove all grains, including corn (it often has its own

problems even though it doesn't contain gluten) and see how that helps. Your

mention of pasta waved a red flag for me.

Then I'd remove cheese and all dairy that isn't raw.

For the apples and other produce that isn't organic, you can peel it. That will

take off many of the pesticides. You can also soak it in a bath of 3% food grade

hydrogen peroxide. The stuff in drug stores has preservatives and other junk in

it, but if you get food grade you won't have that problem. H2O2 can remove a

good bit of the pesticides etc. I get mine from Family Health News in an 8%

solution and then water it down.

Good luck.

Nenah

Childhood excema, Please take a look at my son's diet

I have a 2.5 year old son who up until about 1 month ago was not having any

skin problems. He has always had very sensitive skin like me, but never

anything that couldn't be fixed by switching to a natural detergent. Over the

last month though, he has started getting a skin rash that looks very much like

excema to my untrained eye. It comes and goes and I was relating it to how much

" junk " I allowed him to have. For instance, on the week-ends, if we were over

at someone's house, and all other kids were having store bought cookies, I would

let him have one. Or if we were out all day long and needed to stop and get

something to eat, he would have some fast food. This was happening more and

more because we have been really busy lately, but I would always reign in the

junk food, and then within a few days the rash would leave. I don't keep

processed foods in our home, so as long as we stayed home and didn't go out too

much it really hasn't been a problem. But, we have been home

all week, and he hasn't had any junk, but this morning, his rash appeared on

his arms, and it looks worse than it has been in awhile. So, I was hoping if I

write down what he eats during the day, someone can offer some insight into what

he may not be getting that he needs, or perhaps, what I need to take out.

Breakfast:

Raw milk

1 pastured free-range egg scrambled with some cheese and butter

sometimes a banana

Lunch:

Raw milk

apple (I cannot afford to buy organic apples all of the time, so I'll buy a

bag of organic one week, and the next week buy regular apples, and I alternate

like that. This week, the apples are NOT organic)

raisins, prunes, or other dried fruit

Dinner:

Raw milk

Whatever we are having, usually, burgers or other grilled meat, pasta with

meat sauce, enchiladas, tacos, or some other normal dinner food

Vegetables cooked in butter

Sometimes for lunch instead of what I wrote down he will have a peanute butter

sandwich. It is natural peanut butter, and homemade bread that is made with

freshly ground grain, but it is not sprouted. Dinner is really the only time

there is any processed food in the diet. I have not gotten to the point yet

where I am making enchilada sauce, or spaghetti sauce from scratch. I use whole

wheat pasta, and whole wheat tortillas, but they are not organic. Out meats are

just regular meat from the supermarket. I am hoping within the next three

months that we will be able to switch to pastured.

Please Help!

[Guest guest]

, Could you provide me with a sample menu of what you feed your toddler

right now? Thanks for the food journal suggestion, that's a great idea. I am

going to start doing that!

Grains and corn, huh? He did have some creamed corn on Monday. And yep, it was

the stuff out of a can. Dh loves it and since it was a holiday I bought it. I

wonder if that might be what set him off this time. Do you think that it would

take that long to show up, because he ate the corn Monday evening and the rash

showed up this morning. Do you think soaking grains would help him at all?

[Guest guest]

, Could you provide me with a sample menu of what you feed your toddler

right now? Thanks for the food journal suggestion, that's a great idea. I am

going to start doing that!

Sure.

Breakfast: amaranth flour or millet/quinoa flour-based muffin, or

millet/quinoa hot cereal. Spread with coconut oil or ghee. No eggs or milk,

we're allergic. Homemade beef or lamb sausage, or Applegate farms turkey bacon,

or Shelton's turkey sausage. Occasionally have coconut or nut milk based

smoothie, made with frozen fruit, which is rotated.

Lunch - Beef, lamb or chicken broth-based soup. We rotate our safe veggies,

so the soup may have celery, mushrooms, onions, swiss chard, squash, etc. in it.

Beef hamburg patty or baked chicken or fish. One raw veggie or salad or fruit,

such as apple, apricot, melons, berries, etc. Homemade salad dressing on the

salad, made with sunflower or nut oils, and apple cider vinegar and spices.

Snack - Trail mix - rotate safe nuts of pecan, walnut or sunflower or sesame

seeds, along with 1 piece of fresh or some dried fruit. Or leftover muffin

(spread with coconut oil or ghee)and nuts. Can include homemade beef or fish

jerky or meatballs.

Dinner - Pretty much the same as lunch, minus the soup, adding an additional

cooked veggie. For occasional dessert, homemade gluten free baked goods, or

date-coconut balls (chopped dates and unsweet coconut pureed together and rolled

in more coconut) or baked fruit topped with coconut oil/ghee and nuts, or fruit

sorbee.

She drinks water, kombucha and herbal teas during the day.

My kids eat a lot. I think my 2 year old eats as much as I do, and I KNOW my

5 year old eats MORE than I do

HTH

Rebekah

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