The Eczema Diet Eczema-Safe Food To Stop: Eczema-Safe Food to Stop The Itch and Prevent Eczema for Life

The media could not be loaded.  The eczema diet has been a game-changer for me! My job as a nurse aggravates my hand eczema to the MAX! But This diet got to the root cause of my inflammation. Amines? Salicylates? I had never heard of them and they were hurting me. I understand my condition so much more now. The elimination diet is not easy as first but it is temporary and you will get relief!

This book has been a GOD sent for us. We were completely in the dark on how to control our daughter's so called Severe eczema. Actually, the Steroid creams we had used on her had resulted in a condition called Red skin syndrome (RSS) or Topical steroid addition (TSW) or Topical Steroid withdrawal (TSW). Because of the RSS, our kid had developed a lot of food sensitivities all of a sudden. Her eczema would suddenly flare up for no known reasons. We were at a breaking point unable to see our kid's pain. At this time, we came across this book by Karen. We went through each chapter multiple times. Karen has written this book with so much thoughtfulness and care that she has tried to address the problems for all age groups starting from infants to old people with multiple other conditions like heart ailments, diabetes etc. We immediately started on this diet program for our kid and she has shown a great improvement. We had spent countless nights without sleep. Now, our kid is slowly coming back to normal thanks to all the information from this book. There are no quick fixes to eczema, RSS, TSW or TSA. But this book has helped us gain our sanity back and put us on the right path. We could figure out that our kid is more sensitive to amines and amine rich foods rather than salicylates. So, I would say that each person is different and they might have different problems leading to eczema. My suggestion is to go through each chapter multiple times and relate to one's own condition / situation in life and figure out what is best for them. This book gives almost all the information needed to manage one's eczema.Karen, we cant thank you enough for your research and insightful book.

Wow! I'm ecstatic! I've had eczema most of my life. It has really flared in the last six years. I've been to allergists, dermatologists and integrative medicine doctors and they all had different ideas which I tried with minimal to no relief. I foolishly decided to take myself off the strongest steroid ointment which I had started using quite liberally and of course my body reacted negatively when I abruptly stopped it. I had steroid withdrawal syndrome which lead me on an internet search. I found this book and learned about the "itchy dozen". I eliminanted them from my diet (dairy being the hardest) and bingo my eczema cleared completely for the first time in years. I'm starting the process of adding things back in to determine which of the dozen is/are the culprit/s. I highly recommend trying this diet if you are suffering like I was. Good luck!

I have never written a review before but felt I had to if it helps another parent to help their baby who has eczema. My 13 month old baby has had mild-medium eczema since about 3 months old on and off. While breastfeeding exclusively I went gluten and dairy free for several months which really helped. However the eczema came back once she started eating solids and the last few months it has been quite bad. We started the eczema diet (for both of us since I am still breastfeeding her) 3.5 weeks ago. At almost 3 weeks the eczema had almost completely gone, a vast improvement, so I have started introducing other foods. The first was organic natural yoghurt for 3 days and her skin is still great. I will continue to introduce new foods as advised in the book. Thankyou Karen, this diet is wonderful and means I have been able to avoid using external products on my baby.

I've been struggling with my nursing baby's for the past year and half and have read many reports online and met many professional both conventional and unconventional and have eliminated many things out of our diets but I could never make heads or tails out of this eczema/allergy situation.After following all the recommendations in this book in all areas diet, bath, creams and vitamins and amino acids etcI can finally see a diference in my baby, i keep going back to double check things in the book , i use it so much that i bought a real book after getting one on my kindle, highly recommended, very thorough book.

excelente informacion , muchas alternativas y una guia que si bien no es para latinoamerica da tantas opciones que se puede dar la oportunidad. mi niña ha mejorado me falta ser mas aplicado pero en mi caso ha sido super este libro

It doesn't contain easy to follow detox, like I thought it would. It does provide recipes and foods to eat, but I was hoping for a clearer description for help and it did not provide that. I have ready many other naturopathic books and was hoping this would be an easier read. I was disappointed. If it's your first book you are purchasing, I'd say it's a great place to start.

So first, the Kindle edition doesn't look too great everywhere. It's readable and usable, I just don't understand why it is so difficult to get this right.As to the diet and book: the writer seems very informed, and very knowledgeable, but it's still a little 'suspicious' that apperently the scientific community isn't quite behind her yet. However, I've put it on my to do list to someday try to follow this diet, but I would really have to set aside a serious amount of time to figure out where to get all the ingredients, learn how to make the recipes, and to have the mindset to stick to it. (For now, if you're interested, I'm finding that a really greasy moisterizing cream is helping me quite a bit with my eczema.)

This book does contain some useful information on eczema. However, most aspects of the diet are not actually based on science or evidence, which I find worrying because the author claims that the diet *is* based on the latest research. I suspect that the author relies on the fact that, understandably, 99% of readers probably won't check the references in detail. If you do look at the referenced articles, you'll find that their findings have been distorted or misinterpreted in the text of the book. Either the author doesn't understand the referenced articles, or they are being deliberately misinterpreted.For example, a key aspect of the diet is the avoidance of salicylates, which are claimed to be the most common chemical sensitivity in eczema sufferers (p. 32). The only reference backing this up (Loblay & Swain) is from a non-peer reviewed article about a study in the early 80s when patients were given aspirin tablets (these contain acetylsalicylic acid which is not found in food) i.e. the article says nothing about the risks to eczema sufferers of ingesting salicylate rich foods. So the whole idea of avoiding salicylates seems based on very weak evidence, and in fact salicylate elimination diets are not recommended (see e.g. Gray PEA, Mehr S, Katelaris CH, et al. Salicylate elimination diets in children: is food restriction supported by the evidence? Med J Aust 2013; 198:600-602.)Another example: page 111, the author claims that diets high in fat decrease skin hydration, but the referenced article by Boelsma et al. cautions against making such an inference from their study (which was cross-sectional, so casusation could not be inferred).

I followed this diet for three months, in that time my eczema got no better at all (in fact, it was worse) and I lost a lot of weight and generally had very little energy. Although I followed the diet precisely, it is worth being aware just how limited it is (mung beans are a key ingredient, most fruit and vegetables are banned) and how much time it takes to shop and prepare the food. Lots of the ingredients were difficult to get and the book is not particularly user-friendly and the recipes are repetitive and at times contradictory. I'm not convinced by the science behind it, and there were too many opportunities made to promote the author's own supplements. I can't imagine how children could follow this diet and it just isn't very practical for anyone working full-time. However, it has worked for others and so it could be worth a try, but i didn't feel healthy while I was on it.

I bought this for my wife given her allergies and eczema that she suffers very badly . Followed the recommendations and she is so much better it is fabulous . Very highly recommended

This book is easy to read, informative and a fantastic guide. Unfortunately, my partner, who has had chronic eczema all his life is not willing to submit entirely to the requirements so it's not possible to review it's effectiveness. What is said makes great sense and I am sure, if I can convince said patient, the diet will be very effective!

The book provided good back ground but the initial stages are very extreme