My personal experience with Eczema

My personal experience with Eczema

Eczema is extremely irritating to handle due to its lingering symptoms on your skin and they seemingly come and go as they please. I have my fair share of dealing with eczema due to my genetically more prone to skin problems, and I’m telling you it is the utmost annoying thing to deal with recurrent eczema.

Weather plays a huge part in triggering my eczema symptoms. Whenever it gets cold, my skin tends to be more dried than usual, and before I know it my skin starts to get scaly and irritating. My arms, my thighs and some times my face starts to have rough skin hence my skin color during those time is grey and unpresentable. They usually don’t go away, and those greyed out skin area stays for a long time afterwards even after itchiness and irritation have gone away. Fortunately, I am a man so I don’t really care as much about my skin appearance. With that being said, I can absolutely understand what it feels to deal with eczema being a woman.

There are multiple causes of eczema ranging from pollen to genetics. The true cause of eczema is still unknown, but fortunately there are lots of ways to treat eczema. The most important thing regarding treating eczema is that keeping your skin moisturized. Eczema causes your skin to get dry and from there it leads to inflammation and itchiness therefore keeping your skin moisturized is key to relieve the symptoms.

Diet is another very important aspect of treating eczema. Many people who have eczema because of food allergies. Common food allergies that associated with eczema are: soy food, eggs, dairy products, gluten, nuts, shellfish, fish. Having an eczema-friendly diet is key to keeping your symptoms at bay because allergic-triggered food can also trigger inflammation. Fortunately, there is a wide variety of food for you to healthily and naturally treat eczema. You can eat fatty fish (like salmon or herring) due to their high omega-3 fatty acids levels which are good against inflammatory. Quercetin-rich foods are great at reducing inflammatory, and for examples: apples, kale, broccoli, cherries, spinach, blueberries. Last but not least, probiotic foods (yogurt) is important to help improve your immune system that helps with reduce flare-up symptoms.

Eczema used to be a pain for me to deal with for a long time, but fortunately I didn’t give up. I tried every possible way to help me reduce the symptoms as well as treating it. After a long while, I have finally found a way that works for me the best. A combination of a healthy allergic-free diet like I mentioned above as well as using a strong over-the-counter cream such as tremotyx, and of course lotion to make eczema goes away.