u/welcomehomesays

Someone makes a post about a magical moisturizer that cured them and everyone celebrates the solution

Someone posts an entire lifestyle 180 degree changeup that cured them and people grab their pitchforks

Wow! This really has become an echo chamber of quick and easy fixes.

Listen! It's unfortunate that many of you think this globally recognized phenomenon has a secret cure or one step fix but human biology is so much more complicated

For those that are able to cure yourselves with just ONE change in your life, you are lucky! It means you just had one trigger because eczema is actually a symptom of disease for most people. One symptom of many! That symptom of eczema can be from stress, dairy, allergies, moisturizer, kissing, absolutely anything and we need to understand the only way to completely get rid of eczema is to find every single trigger that has made our immune system so over reactive. I had over so many triggers it's absolutely heartbreaking to think.

But oh well if you want to continue jumping at the posts that preach one magic moisturizer, good luck on your journey, you're probably going to be on this Reddit board for awhile.

I'm posting this after my last post got flamed and it honestly made me question why I even came back here to help everyone out.

I'm well on my way to healing and I don't need anything from this community anymore, I just returned to give back to everyone and help relieve suffering but I don't see myself posting here any longer

Don't shoot the messenger if you don't like what I'm saying but if you think your eczema only has one trigger, you are going to be fighting this thing your entire life.

I had to completely change up every inch of my life and I was left hopeless for years and decades before coming across this solution.

The doctors said this was impossible but guess what they say now?

"Oh wow you figured it out."

Lol, all this from the geniuses who think steroid creams are the best solution for eczema

The whole industry and its ideologies are hurting you my friends.

God bless you all.

Here is my original post if you're curious :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/eczema/s/sFhN325oOo

Hello friends and sufferers,

I write with good news.

After 5 years of worsening cheilitis, it seems I have found the cure.

First, what did the troubles look like?

- Dry, scaly, chapped, peeling lips

- Lips would continuously restart exfoliating/peeling cycle with no intervention

- Vaseline, lip balm, oils all seemed to make things worse

- Diet, poor sleep, stress, cold weather, lip licking made it worse

- Oddly enough, I also got eczema type stuff on the backs of my hand, arms and heels (dry, scaly, you could scratch my hand with your nail and it would leave a white scratch mark)

Now, what was the solution?

1. When in the shower, mix your bodywash/soap into your loofah with vinegar. Yes. Literally, vinegar. Step one put bodywash on loofah. Step two put vinegar in loofah. Do not mix the 2 liquids in a bottle, only on loofah. Scrub your body down with the loofah, exfoliating thoroughly. Add soap and vinegar as needed while continuing to scrub your body, top to bottom.
2. Cut out milk, wheat, cheese, chocolate, caffeine, eggs, nicotine, smoking, chewing gum, sugar, artificial sweeteners
   1. So, what can you eat? Well, this is where you can start something similar to an elimination diet to see what works for you. Go organic whenever possible. Grow your own food whenever possible.
3. Diet: Cucumbers, lettuce, chicken, olive oil, jojoba oil, castor oil, coconut oil
4. Lip Ointment: Canesten (Antifungal ointment) + Fucidin (Sodium fucidate, fucidic ointment) + Polysporin Triple Antibiotic (Polymyxin, Bacitracin Zinc, Gramacidin 2-3x PER DAY UNTIL symptoms are completely going and then continue applications for 1 week additional, that is every 8-12 hours. Apply the Canesten/antifungal or cream like solution first, next apply the oil or antibiotic based ointments subsequently.
5. Get outside, get some sun. No sunglasses, no sunscreen. Phototherapy, UV light therapy, red light therapy are all just trying to replicate what we already have. The sun is an anti-everything.
6. SPECIAL DRINK: 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar + 1 tsp avipattikar churna (weird ayurvedic powder, you can probably create your own using the recipe) mixed with 500mL of water - you can have this drink 1-2x per day, morning and night (or only at night before bed)
7. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS: 1 vitamin B tablets during day, 1 multivitamin during day, 1 fish oil during day, 1 fish oil at night, 1 vitamin d anytime, 500mg magnesium at night, 3-4 Dequadin/Antifungal+antibacterial lozenge
8. Add salt to all your meals, your skin is better able to hold onto nutrients and water with the right type and amount of sodium. I like himalayan salt and celtic salt but you can go for anything that isn't heavily processed and without preservatives/additives as with all your other foods.
9. Exercise, facial yoga and massage
   1. Walk as much as you can, go for 10,000steps per day, preferably outside
   2. Stretch out your face, either while singing or engaging in facial yoga mixed with myofascial release in your face using your hands or a gua sha or facial lympatic roller/face roller
   3. Body massage using massage gun all over, helps to buy 2 so they don't overheat
10. Sleep as much as you can. If you're exhausted during the day, you're probably sleep-deprived and your body won't be able to repair anything.
11. Lips are actually a sponge, it's not like the skin on the rest of your body. Think about why kissing feels great. It's because the skin is entirely different. So, that means if the lip skin is a sponge, it absorbs everything in and will take much longer to clear up from the inside out. It's not just an "outer" layer problem, it's very much a DEEP ROOTED ISSUE. All the way in your belly AND on the flora of your skin (Google 'Microbiome')

I will keep you guys posted but I think in a few more weeks, maybe a month I'll be much happier. I'm already pretty ecstatic after seeing results. Only been doing the medicated portion for about 7 days so far, expecting to go for at least 30 days. Have been doing the diet, sleep and shower changes for 2-3 months. I had better air quality/mold free etc for a few months before it helped a lot.

Remember guys, eczema and skin issues are inflammation and inflammation is not a binary action. It's not on or off, biology is rarely so simple. Inflammation is like a % and each 1% can be added on by triggers like mold, dairy, sugar, mites, fungus, stress etc.. that's why you need to address this from a holistic point of view (Merriam Website definition of holistic: an approach that emphasizes the study, treatment, or perception of a system as a complete whole, rather than just as a sum of its individual parts. The word stems from the Greek word holos (meaning "whole") and is widely used across healthcare, ecology, business, and education

Good luck to you all. Feel free to comment any messages!