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March 11, 2016

How We Healed My Son’s Eczema Rash Quickly… without changing his diet!

How we healed our son's eczema rash quickly... without changing his diet! - The Family That Heals Together

When you’re a natural mama and you pride yourself on knowing about natural remedies, eating weird foods, and being Dr. Mom, having a setback like eczema is really humbling. When my son developed an eczema rash last fall, I was really disappointed. I felt like I was failing him.

We were on the GAPS intro diet, and instead of just taking his health to the next level (he’s never had any other health concerns), it uncovered an eczema rash we thought we had taken care of long before. That’s both the good and frustrating thing about GAPS: it uncovers hidden health conditions. For my little guy, it was eczema.

We continued with GAPS intro, but once we were done, the eczema was still there. Then the holidays hit and we really slacked on our diet, eating lots of starches and some natural sugars. His eczema flared worse than ever.

We struggled on through winter, mostly ignoring it, and occasionally putting some lotion on it. By mid-winter his skin was starting to crack in a couple of places. It was so disheartening, knowing I could fix it, but feeling overwhelmed with the thought of going back on GAPS at that point.

What causes an eczema rash?

Eczema is not really a skin condition, so much as a condition of inner ecosystem imbalance. It results from a lack of good bacteria in the gut, which allows the overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria. When the pathogenic bacteria take over, leaky gut can set in, and food proteins begin to leak out of the gut undigested.

When these undigested proteins leak through the gut rather than become digested nutrients the body can use, they can affect the skin, resulting in conditions like eczema. Eczema is essentially an autoimmune condition in which the skin becomes the target.

It can also be strongly associated with other conditions like asthma and behavioral problems.

Diet changes

I tried to remove dairy from his diet. We had had success in the past with easing eczema by removing dairy. But every time I tried to get strict about dairy, he ended up getting it anyways because everyone else in our family was still eating it. We would forget, or he would accidentally get some, or we would just get lazy.

It was frustrating knowing that I knew what I should do, but not being disciplined enough to do it.

He’s three now, but when he was one, we had a similar experience. He developed eczema out of nowhere, which improved with removing dairy from his diet.

Changing his diet then helped, but, ultimately, there was something else that cleared it right up, and he was able to go back to to eating dairy with no problems! We utilized the same treatment recently when he had this eczema flare and got quick results: clear, smooth skin in a matter of weeks.

And, we didn’t even change his diet. In fact, his diet was probably worse than it’s ever been. Following GAPS, we reintroduced starches like potatoes and some gluten-free grains, and even ate out at restaurants a few times- including gluten!

I was feeling the pressure and knew we needed to get control of our diet again, but I also knew I had a secret weapon to combat the eczema rash.

My secret eczema weapon

I wrote a while back about how to choose a good probiotic. I’ve tried lots of different probiotics: cheap ones you can buy at the grocery store, pricey ones you can get at health food stores, even really expensive ones you order online. I have never had such great success as I have with Smidge Sensitive Probiotic.

Because Smidge was meticulously created for those with sensitive guts, it is gentle, but because it is highly concentrated, it is incredibly effective. We had out of Smidge for a little while when the eczema popped up, but started back up on a fresh bottle just over a month ago.

Look at these before and after pictures:

How we healed our son's eczema rash quickly... without changing his diet! - The Family That Heals Together     How we healed our son's eczema rash quickly... without changing his diet! - The Family That Heals Together     How we healed our son's eczema rash quickly... without changing his diet! - The Family That Heals Together

The first picture is only about a month or so ago, the second one a couple weeks ago, and the third one was yesterday.

Smidge healed my little one’s eczema right up without us doing anything differently!

Smidge really is unlike any other probiotic we’ve used. Although it is pricey for the small bottle, it is highly concentrated, so one bottle lasts our family of six for four months or longer. If you add up the cost of buying lesser-priced (and lesser quality!) probiotics, the price of Smidge is actually considerably more affordable, it’s just a bit of an investment up front.

Diet isn’t the only cure

Don’t get me wrong, diet is tremendously important. I wouldn’t recommend someone continue eating the standard American diet full of refined grains and sugars, processed dairy, and trans fats if they had eczema.

Because we already had a clean diet, inflammation wasn’t such an issue. Additionally, our little guy has never been vaccinated or taken antibiotics or other pharmaceuticals. All of these things helped to give his body a good shot at getting over the eczema quickly.

But I think there is a lot of nutrition to be found in dairy products, particularly raw milk and cultured foods like kefir, yogurt, and creme fraiche (sour cream). I’m glad we were able to find a cure for my son’s eczema rash without having to give up the nutrition of dairy.

Some parents may even be stuck on trying to cure their little one’s eczema, to no avail, even with major diet changes. We were certainly eating better than ever when our little guy got it. Sometimes a good probiotic is the missing link.

If your little one is struggling with eczema or other gut health issues, Smidge is definitely worth trying!

Read more about healing eczema.

How we healed our son's eczema rash quickly... without changing his diet! - The Family That Heals Together

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By: Jaclyn · Filed Under: Blog, Healing Happens · Tagged: eczema, gut health, gutpro, probiotics

December 8, 2015

Ultimate Healing Pack Giveaway from Corganic

I have used Corganic products for the past few years, and have never been disappointed in a single one that I’ve tried. The company’s integrity and high-quality products continue to impress me and I trust their products for my family, even as we are going through intensive healing on the GAPS diet. In fact, Corganic products are recommended specifically for those on the GAPS diet! Today, I am launching the biggest giveaway this site has seen: an Ultimate Healing Pack from Corganic, worth over $200! Let me tell you what it includes:

GutPro

The only probiotic our family has used on a continual basis, GutPro is a gentle yet therapeutic probiotic, which is strong enough to promote healthy gut flora, but formulated for those with even severe food intolerances and allgeries. GutPro contains absolutely no fillers, nor does it contain any allergens like gluten, corn, dairy or soy. I wrote in detail here about why this probiotic is the only one we’ll use.

GutPro has healed so many issues in our family, including eczema (literally, within two weeks of using it for the first time, my son’s eczema disappeared, without changing anything else!) and chronic constipation. I cannot say enough good things about this amazing probiotic. The best part is that one small, concentrated bottle lasts our family of 6 4-6 months, as only tiny doses are needed for therapeutic benefits. Check it out here. The giveaway will include one bottle of GutPro, with the option of choosing GutPro Infant, formulated for children under one year of age ($99.95 value).

Extra Virgin Cod Liver Oil

Rosita’s Extra Virgin Cod Liver Oil: a fresh, clean cod liver oil you can trust for your family

I’ve written pretty extensively about our switch to Extra Virgin Cod Liver Oil. I won’t hash it all out here, but if you want to read more about that, you can here and here.

That being said, I am so impressed with the manufacturing and production of Rosita’s Extra Virgin Cod Liver Oil. It has a fresh, fishy flavor and is easy to wash down with a drink of water, even if you don’t particularly care for fish (like me). Watch the following video to see how it’s produced:

This giveaway includes one bottle of Rosita’s Extra Virgin Cod Liver Oil too ($49 value)! But that’s not all…

Extra Virgin Butter Oil

 

 Organic3 Extra Virgin Butter Oil: an excellent source of vitamins A, E, K2, & much more!

Last but not least is the Extra Virgin Butter Oil, a perfect and potent combination with the extra virgin cod liver oil. From the Corganic Web site:

“Unlike many brands of ghee and clarified butter that use high heat to extract the oil from the milk solids, destroying the lower fatty acid chains, EVBO is processed minimally to preserve all of the nutrients, freshness, aroma and color. Many lactose-intolerant people find no difficulty digesting EVBO which is also the perfect complement to our Extra-Virgin Cod Liver Oil, further accentuating the bio-available nutrients.

A natural source of vitamin A, E, K2 (MK-4), Butyric Acid, Wultzen Factor and Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), Extra-Virgin Butter Oil is small batch produced seasonally in the late spring and early fall. No grain, no corn, no GMO feed – just 100% pure untreated lush green grass!”

Because of Corganic’s special proprietary methods of separating the oil from the milk solids and moisture, this butter oil retains more nutrients and greater digestibility than others that use heat or centrifuge processes of separation, setting extra virgin butter oil apart as a supplement-quality food rather than something to eat and cook with like ghee, though the rich, buttery taste is no less delicious. This giveaway includes one jar of Extra Virgin Butter Oil ($39 value).

In addition, Corganic will include the measuring spoons needed for the GutPro, and, of course, shipping is free ($20.45 value).

Wait! Corganic also has some very special offers for the holiday season!

Primal Gut, a probiotic developed by Organic3, is a newer probiotic that I’ve been using for a few months with great success. It is more aggressive than GutPro, so is ideal for those with stubborn gut bacteria problems like SIBO. Right now, Corganic is offering buy one get one FREE on Primal Gut- you seriously can’t beat that! AND- they are also offering 25% off GutPro infant, so if you are in need of this perfect first supplement for baby, now is the time to try it out. No coupon codes necessary. Buy those items here.

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By: Jaclyn · Filed Under: Gaps Diet · Tagged: butter oil, cod liver oil, corganic, extra virgin cod liver oil, gutpro, probiotics

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