RE: Baby with eczema (FLAG AS TIMELY ISSUE) [s]

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Colleen writes,

 

Hi, I have a friend whose 5 mo baby has severe eczema... he is breastfed,

has had no vaccinations... she eats fairly healthy -- SAD but tries to eat

whole foods and organic. She did an elimination diet, thinking that dairy or

wheat was the culprit, but had no success.

 

Does anyone have any experience in a mama switching to raw foods to clear up

a breatfed baby's eczema? How would she go about it? I am still learning so

much that I wanted to have some more info to give her before I even brought

it up.

 

Any input is appreciated.

_____

Hi Colleen,

 

First, I would treat this as a fairly urgent situation. Right now, the level

of symptoms is confined to skin reactions, but this is a strong indication

of more severe problems to come, if things aren't put right.

 

The thing that jumps out at me is the attempt to move this child onto ANY

whole foods at such an early age. There is a period of time where the only

ideal food is mother's milk. All the other mammalian species recognize this

instinctively but we are cut off from much of our own self-awareness. Beyond

this observation, your comments do not provide enough information to say

more.

 

" Eczema " in this case is, in all likelihood, the baby's body working hard to

eliminate incoming toxins. I would immediately ask about the baby's pooping

patterns -- frequency, physical consistency, smell, and time between eating

and pooping for starters. I would want to know much more about the other

foods the baby is eating, the proportions of breast milk to these other

foods, etc.

 

And I'd immediately look beyond foods, at carpets, draperies, laundry and

overall household cleaners, paints, soaps, shampoos, things in the car,

toys, ANY sources of chemicals that might irritate tender young skin. Then

I'd look ... well, you get the idea. This is definitely not an email

project!

 

One more thing. I admire you for speaking on behalf of your friend, and at

the same time, I encourage you to encourage her to make her own inquiries.

Someone telling you telling her is not going to work, in all likelihood. I

find that we can often help people more by encouraging them to stand

straight, on their own, than by means of any information we can ever share

with them.

 

Beat,

Elchanan

 

 

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