Over the counter moisturizers can help to relieve the dryness of the skin but usually aren’t enough to beat eczema. The prescription drugs that are treating eczema must be used with supervision to make sure that the side effects that you risk with this kind of eczema treatments do not result in a condition worse than the disease itself.

 

Steroids for treating eczema range from mild to potent strengths, they can help to suppress the symptoms, but they don’t cure them. The itching and inflammation symptoms come back.  These eczema treatments are usually only intended for short-term use, as prolonged use of steroids can reportedly, and ironically, make the skin more thin and fragile.  If used over large areas and absorbed, they can also reportedly cause hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression.  Then, because they have an immonupsuppressive action, they can also promote skin infections.  Get this eczema treatment in your eye and you can prepare for cataracts or glaucoma. Alrighty then.

 

You can also go the oral steroid route to get rid of eczema for short periods of time, after which the eczema usually returns.

 

Topical Immunomodulators (TIMS) such as Elidel and Protopic  given to get rid of eczema have a risk of developing lymph node or skin cancer and carry a black box warning.  They are usually only prescribed here when all other eczema treatments have failed, and carry other such side effects as severe flushing, headaches, sensitivity to sunlight, flu-like symptoms, and they can also interact with other meds and foods. I personally would be afraid to take something such as this to try to beat eczema.

 

Oral immunosuppressants  drugs given for eczema are Tacrolimus and Pimecrolimus. Tacrolimus is also called Prograf, which is given after an organ transplant to try to keep the body from rejecting the foreign tissue.  Their lists of side effects is long, and you must realize that immunosuppressants suppress your immune system—leaving you wide open for lots of other uglier things.

 

There are so many other methods and home remedies with which to treat eczema. Antihistamines to reduce itching which in turn decreases scratching and traumatizing the skin, although, really, it seems that the patient is too sedated to scratch, rather than the itch going away. Tar treatments to reduce itching can work for a while and stink to high heaven the whole time.   Phototherapy to help beat eczema is rather like simple sunlight therapy. I am thinking the light is supposed to help kill bacteria, but I am not sure.  Risks of that are premature aging of the skin and skin cancer.

 

Other home remedies abound in the treatment of eczema, such as simply applying the  sense of cold. Cold is supposed to soothe the irritated nerves and cause them to settle down. Methods such as AC, cool water baths, cold compresses etc can help to temporarily stop the itch.  Soaking in bleach baths reduces bacterial infections.  Chiropractic spinal stimulation is said to help some.   There are Chinese herbs used for eczema  treatment that are said to have decreased eczema symptoms, but are toxic in themselves and can cause other problems.

 

Bathing as an eczema treatment is debated, some saying it is too drying, others recommending three baths a day with lavish cream afterward to seal in the moisture. In addition to using cool water, oatmeal baths are supposed to  help to decrease itching.   Sea water or salt water baths are supposed to help too, but they can really burn. So who knows.

 

A newer eczema treatment that I found was behavior modification to change habitual itching. The theory is that eczema causes the scratching which irritates the skin and causes more eczema. OK, I will buy that, makes more sense than a lot of these other eczema treatments and I can’t really see any side effects from that one. Unless it involves hypnosis, and they also make you crow like a rooster every time someone says “good morning”.  At least, that will be entertaining for the rest of the family.

 

Confused about how to treat eczema?  I was too.

 

One of the reasons that there are SO many different eczema treatment and home remedies is that no one seems to agree on what causes eczema in the first place.  Look at this quick list of “causes” that I found:

 

· Sweating (wait, isn’t that a natural body function?)

· Scratchy fabrics (cause we’re so freakin’ fragile.)

· Getting too hot or too cold (well, hell-there go the seasons!)

· Stress (if that was the case we would ALL have eczema.)

· Hormonal Imbalances (then every woman in my family should be one big rash.)

· Anything that dries your skin (thought we were mammals, not fish!)

· Air pollution (guess eczema of the lungs is next, call it lunczema and remember it was my idea.)

· Chemical irritants (perfumes, cleaners, make up, lotions, etc. No deodorant for you, Stinky.)

· Medication side effects (what if you’re not on medications?)

· Environment being too dirty (You pig.)

 

· Environment being too clean (You neat freak pig. Now you have kept the place too clean and junior hasn’t built up the proper immunities, and his rash is all your fault. Always blame the mama.)

 

I mean, come on. To avoid all of those eczema causes, you’d have to sterilely transport babies from the womb into a big plastic climate-controlled silky moisturized soft bubble, and then you’d still have to give them everything they want to keep them from stressing out.

 

We’d have a race of moist, lukewarm, wussy, spoiled, bubbilized brats. And I will bet you anything that they’d still have red itchy rashes.

 

Because, as this guide teaches,  I suspect that the real cause of eczema comes from within, not without.  

 

 

 

I believe that there is a darned good chance that we don’t understand what causes eczema because eczema may be a symptom, rather than a disease. We can focus on how to get rid of eczema, but we will never do that until we understand exactly what causes eczema.

 

You must consider your skin itself, if you want to beat eczema.

 

The skin is your largest organ, one that is extraordinarily capable of healing itself. So why the chronic itching, redness, dryness and inflammation unless the skin is trying to perform one of its main functions.   Your skin performs many vital functions including protecting you from pathogens; protecting you from chemical impact; protecting you from water loss; protecting you from ultraviolet radiation; holding in your organs; maintaining a constant body temperature; providing awareness of your environment through touch and continually sending this feedback to your central nervous system; protecting your from harmful stimuli through the sensation of pain; serving as a communication system , for example by blushing; storing extra blood; metabolizing vitamin D; excreting waste products; and absorption of vitamins, minerals and medications….but, in addition to all of these functions and more--the skin also acts as an alert.

 

I used this same example once while talking about acne, but I feel it is also a good scenario to consider when thinking about what causes eczema. As mentioned, like a smoke alarm, skin serves as an alert.

 

Observing the skin can give an experienced health care provider clear clues about deeper, internal problems. Yellowing and itching of the skin indicates liver trouble.  Frequent infections and itching can hint at diabetes.  Your skin tone can indicate your iron level and your oxygenation level. The appearance of your skin can reveal vitamin or mineral deficiencies.   Some even swear they can tell your blood pressure by looking at your skin.

 

So, doesn’t it make you curious…here is an organ-very adept at self-healing…yet in eczema, it remains inflamed, irritated, itchy, maybe even infected and this goes on and on and on.

Doesn’t that make you wonder WHY?

 

You know how when you’re cooking and the oil smokes, it sets off the smoke alarm and you are frantic to TURN THAT DARN THING OFF!? It’s because it’s upsetting and it hurts your ears--it’s painful.   If you’re like many of us, you run in there with a broom and frantically wave at it to clear the smoke away so that it will cease.  But every time you take 4 steps away from it, it starts shrieking again. Meanwhile, the kitchen is on fire. You have worse issues than the alarm, but the alarm is the one demanding all your attention.

 

Work with me on this…..Because to me, eczema and eczema medications run a close parallel to that exact scenario.  There is a root cause in your body that sets your skin to alarming with itching and inflammation. You rush to stop it because it is upsetting and painful. You get it to quiet down but it keeps going off again. Your attention stays with the alarm while the problem itself  goes on. That is a losing situation and you don’t have to be a dermatologist to see that.

 

FIND THE ROOT CAUSE OF WHAT CAUSES ECZEMA AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET RID OF IT.  Not necessarily as a disease, but as a SYMPTOM.   There are so many things that we are doing that impairs our health to a great degree such as the pH effects of the foods we eat, and we have no clue. NONE at all.  

 

 

Read this guide and you will learn how to Beat Eczema and do it with:

 

· No harsh chemicals

· No crazy medication risks

· No immunosuppression leaving you vunerable to everything that comes along

· No bothersome side effects

· No exotic ingredients or expensive products

 

 

This simple guide shows you how to deal with your eczema in an all-natural way. This is important for your own health, and mega-important if the eczema sufferer in your life is a child. We both know it’s way past time you learned, and you can spare that child a lifetime of anguish and self-consciousness by teaching him or her how to get rid of eczema NOW.

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The Eczema treatments listed below are intended to treat the itching and inflammation symptoms of the disease, because there is no known cure or method to get rid of eczema.