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Eczema Miracle!

I'm doing the Jason Vale juice program.

The photo shows what a change there has been since Sunday. :-)

...and the SLF plot thickens

I've just been told by a friend that SLF is in some toothpastes as well. As it's a foaming agent this makes perfect sense but hadn't occurred to me. She discovered this was the cause of her mouth ulcers. As I too suffer with them, I think its worth changing my toothpaste also. Maybe it will help with my mouth eczema too?

She has recommended a toothpaste (corsadyl) and a shampoo from Boots the chemist.

I'm off to town in a bit so will update you all later with what I end up buying.

Sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) and eczema

Well, I'm back after a long absence. I've had a very sore and dry neck and scalp getting increasingly worse over the last couple of months. I got to the stage last night where I came to the conclusion I must have nits!

My hubby had a good look and said that I had eczema all the way up to the parting on the top of my head. Well that explained a lot! I took this photo to see how bad it was and I'm horrified. Believe me it looks worse in reality.

Soooo....I figure the only thing that's changed in the last few months is that I started using L'Oreal shampoo. I'd won some in a competition. I googled shampoo and eczema and found a lot of stuff about Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) so decided to investigate further.

I popped in to the bathroom and lo and behold ALL my shampoos contained this ingredient! Quite concerned I thought I'd best use my little girls baby shampoo...only to find it was in that too!

Here is a lot of info about SLS. http://www.babycentre.co.uk/worry-watch/sls/

I'm now on the search for a natural recipe for shampoo. Does anyone have one they can recommend?

I can't take much more

This is all doing my head in. One minute I'm starting the diet and then I'm not. Then one doctor says I can but then another says wait.

Well,  I've had enough of waiting!

The nutritionist said to wait until either the end of October or my eczema stopping improving. Whichever comes first.

This is because we thought the b12 jabs might improve it.

I'm now putting that initial improvement down to me coming off my period. Pure coincidence. My eczema always worsens when I'm due on. It then improves as my hormones settle (another blog post methinks). Anyway,  it just so happens that this time it coincided with the b12 jabs.

The difference that I have noticed however is that it heals quicker. I can have a really bad breakout which would normally lead to me waking up sore and having to bandage my hands. Now I'm always pleasantly surprised when I wake up.

I had chicken tikka 2 nights ago because I swear that is a bad one for me. True to form I had a breakout. I've also noticed a few hours after ice cream my fingers itch,  burn and swell.

So,  I'm going to email my nutritionist to inform him I'm doing the diet and that's that!

...and then it ends

This is soooooo frustrating.

I've just had an email from my nutritionist telling me to not start the diet!!!!!!!!

I've noticed an improvement in my eczema since the b12 jabs. He reckons that if I do the diet and my eczema clears up then we won't know if its because of cutting out the food or the B12 jabs.

As the doctor said it could take 6-8 weeks to give their full effect then I guess that's the end of October?

I'd got myself all psyched up to do this so am really disappointed. I guess that makes no sense because if its the B12 jabs that help then that's a great thing. I'm sure you understand. Sigh.

Day 2 - here goes everything!

Right,  my days of easing myself in are now over.

The photo shows my breakfast.

Todays meal plan:

Breakfast -  3 rice cakes
Snack -  grapes
Lunch - chips in sunflower oil with turkey
Snack -  apple
Dinner -  baked potato with dairy free butter,  shredded turkey and cabbage
Drinks -  water with a treat glass of 7 up

Thank god for the 7 up being on the list. I need to convince myself that it has caffeine in it because the withdrawals from no daily dr pepper will kick in. Good job I don't drink coffee!

Wish me luck.