How to Heal Your Child’s Eczema and Adult Eczema as Well

When my grandson Ty stopped breast feeding he developed Eczema. My daughter began feeding him the Shaklee fish oil. She would pierce a capsule and put it in applesauce. She also gave Ty the Shaklee Optiflora. And WHA LA! the awful itching eczema went away.We are so thankful for knowing about Shaklee Products. If you read my post about choosing a good probiotic you probably know that most probiotic supplements do not even deliver enough freindly bacteria to the lower colon. Read Post

Below is another testimony from a little guy who had a severe case of eczema and was helped by making some dietary changes and adding Shaklee supplements.

The following suggestions come from Pam Hoeppner,who used Shaklee products to successfully help her son Josh overcome eczema. These suggestions are excerpted and rearranged for clarity from her testimonial in Healthy Kids More information on this booklet and others like it can be found at the end of this section.

Diet: Foods to Avoid Eggs, dairy, peanut butter, tomatoes, nuts and fried foods should be eliminated or avoided at least until it’s known whether or not some or all of them are affecting the child.

Avoiding Household Chemicals: Chemicals in detergents can create all kinds of problems. What bed sheets are washed in can aggravate a child’s skin condition and keep him or her up at night coughing and sneezing. Shaklee laundry products and Basic-H are wonderful to use to prevent skin and respiratory conditions in children and adults.

Bathing: A child with eczema does better if given cool baths, never hot, or even REAL warm. Josh’s skin was ALWAYS cleared up in the spring in Florida when he would get in the pool and the water was 65º. We always thought it was the water, sun or chlorine, and then as it got hotter and hotter in Florida and the temperature of the water got higher; he’d start breaking out again. It was years before we realized it was the temperature of the water.

You can start a bath out with warm or luke warm water and slowly add more and more cold, as cool as the child will allow. We made a game out of it. Josh’s skin responded so well. Cool or cold water brings the pH back to alkaline inside the body. People with eczema are excessively acidic.

Topical Creams: Another thing we discovered when using a topical cortisone cream, the skin must be totally cleansed between applications or the next one will be ineffective. Shaklee Hand Wash and Body Lotion worked great for this. It was gentle on the skin and had a softening effect. The new Shaklee Baby Products are gentle on the skin.

Supplementation Suggestions: 1-2 Shaklee GLA Complex: helps the body to regulate many normal bodily processes. 2-4 Essential OmegaGuard: Fish oil supplement that has shown to greatly improve eczema, psoriasis, colitis, arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. In general, little children won’t have an aversion to the taste and smell of the fish oil contained in Shaklee OmegaGuard Complex unless the parents react to it. Kids will usually chew them, get the juice out of them and spit the jackets out. For small children you can puncture the capsules and drizzle out the fish oil in to food. (Editor’s Note: Shaklee now has a wonderful orange flavored DHA (dha is the fatty acid in the fish oil needed for brain health and healthy skin called Mighty Smart

Optiflora System: Tiny children only need the capsule 2 or 3 times a week and just ¼ tsp to ½ tsp of the powder. You can put the tiny pearl in mashed baby food or applesauce. The child will often will swallow it without knowing it’s there.

Editors. Note: The above suggestions for babies and children with eczema are excerpted from Healthy Kids a booklet of over 100 children’s health success short stories from people using Shaklee products to deal with children’s issues from ADD to Zits. However, please note; it is NOT published by the Shaklee Corporation, nor has it been reviewed or approved by the Shaklee Corporation.