Anyway, carrying on my story, I got home from Auckland with my 'Eczema Treatment Plan' and got started. Part of the plan is food avoidance. The biggies are Dairy food, Chocolate, Citrus fruits, Tomatoes, Soy, Peanuts and a few other simple things. Oh my gosh, I am such a lazy eater, I hate cooking, but determined to stick to the plan, off I went to the Supermarket to shop for my new foods. Well, I spent four hours just reading the ingredients of everything. And, did you know that most of all the packaged and processed foods have Soy in them, all the snack bars have peanuts or chocolate in them. I could go on and on.
My shopping basket consisted of - Pita bread and Wraps (it's dairy free), Rice bubbles, Cornflakes, A2 Milk, Olivani, Bananas, Pears, Apples, Oaty Snack Bars, Chicken, Meat, Vegetables (but no pumpkin). For something sweet I brought Golden Crumpets (dairy Free) and I put Golden syrup on them...Yum ! Not happy that I have to cook and prepare food, but I must do it!
The treatment began - Use Cetaphil or Aveeno Body Wash or Sunlight Bath Soap in the shower. Apply Aveeno Cream to skin first and then Dr Joe's Eczema cream on top two times per day. This all takes time when it is my whole body I must cover in two kinds of cream. But, I am used to that. Stick to the food avoidance diet and take my anti-histamines twice daily. It's not hard and it's not rocket science, rather quite simple to do.
Seven days after I began the Plan, here I was sitting watching TV of an evening and suddenly I realised I'm not itchy ! What ? I'm not itchy ! How can that be ? 54 years of my life, my parents and I tried everything there was to try and help me and suddenly after seven days I have no itch. Such a weird feeling. A feeling of "What do I do now" It was almost like I just lost a best friend.
I am amazed at the improvement in my skin in such a short period of time. Incredible, who would of thought ?
I'm going to get real brave now and include some before and after pics, here we go -
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| Eyes Before Treatment Plan |
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| Eye's after three weeks of Treatment |
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| Before |
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| After...only scars left |
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| Hands Before |
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| Hands After |
