Aqueous cream should never have been prescribed as a moisturiser. It is a soap alternative which contains emollients. Why didn't doctors know this?

Aqueous cream aggravates eczema. When used as a moisturiser it thins the skin and makes it more vulnerable to irritation. Read this BBC News report, where you will see that "it is also frequently recommended by doctors for its moisturising properties - one recent poll suggested nine out of 10 GPs recommended it for childhood eczema."

How on earth can UK doctors - reputedly the highest paid GPs in Europe - not know this? How can 9 out of 10 doctors have been recommending it for childhood eczema when it makes the condition worse? It contains sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS), a harmful chemical if left on the skin.

If you have had it prescribed or recommended for your child you may like to print out the BBC article and take it to show your doctor. This would surely not only help your own child but other children currently being damaged by the use of aqueous cream as a moisturiser.

Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) use in adolescents linked to doubled risk of asthma

New evidence linking the use of acetaminophen to development of asthma and eczema suggests that even monthly use of the drug in adolescents may more than double risk of asthma in adolescents compared to those who used none at all; yearly use was associated with a 50 percent increase in the risk of asthma.
Read article at physorg.com

Comment by Dr Rath Foundation: Based upon research involving more than 300,000 13- and 14 year old children in 113 centers throughout 50 countries, the results of this study follow hot on the heels of independent research that links acetaminophen (Paracetamol) not only to asthma but also to hearing loss and adverse vision events. As such, as the leading cause of liver failure in the United States and carrying a much increased risk of stroke and heart attack, it is becoming increasingly clear that the dangers of acetaminophen are far higher, and more numerous, than the business with disease and its friends in the drug regulatory agencies would have you believe.

Some researchers suggest that gut worms protect against allergy

Some researchers - Dr Carsten Flohr et al, of the University of Nottingham - are suggesting that gut worms protect against allergy, as reported here by BBC News. I've only read this one article on the subject, so obviously I am not in possession of an abundance of evidence, but going by the article itself, I doubt the logic of the argument.

The article states that "British and Vietnamese scientists gave local children treatment to clear their body of worms.

They found this led to an increase in dust mite allergy among the children."

And the researchers state that "this strongly suggests that gut worms have the potential to tone down human immune responses."

I myself am led to a completely different conclusion. - My conclusion is that it was the tablets (the 'treatment') that increased the dust mite allergy among the children, and that the further research they plan will be a waste of time and money, exploring in a blind alley.

What do you think?

A safe, drug-free way to reduce both the incidence and the severity of allergies, including asthma and eczema, in children, is to protect them from high sodium intake. Children should avoid salt and salty food. As well as reducing allergy problems, it also protects them from obesity and the many health problems associated with obesity.

See Children and Obesity

See also FAT RETENTION

How scientists are linking eczema and asthma

BBC News reports how scientists are linking eczema and asthma and hope that "Early treatment of the skin rash and blocking TSLP production might stop asthma developing in young patients with eczema."

Well for all I know the scientists may be right about this. But what I know for sure is that both eczema and asthma conditions are improved by reducing salt intake significantly, and that reducing salt intake is completely safe, with no adverse side-effects, and benefits the health in countless other ways too.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Sodium in foods

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amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See advice for pregnant mothers

Children and Obesity

Associated health conditions

and FAT RETENTION

Laughter improves breast milk's health effect - New Scientist

Laughter improves breast milk's health effect - New Scientist

Extract:

"Breastfed babies with eczema experienced milder symptoms if their mothers laughed hours before feeding them, according to a study by Hajime Kimata at the Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka, Japan."

Both mothers and babies would benefit if mothers reduced their intake of salt/sodium and salty food to a minimum. This would improve many aspects of health, including the severity of eczema, and it would lower the risk of the babies gaining excess weight. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Acne? Eczema? - Tried everything? - Try this! (It costs nothing...(o:)

Salt has bad effects on some people, and that's not surprising when you think about it. - Our long-ago ancestors did not eat salt; at least, the only salt they ate for thousands of years was the salt naturally present in their food - and that was a very small amount of salt indeed. - All food and all water has tiny amounts of salt/sodium in it, and it is on this small intake of sodium that our species evolved. We do not need the addition of further salt. - Logically, then, a low salt intake would be likely to be best for us.

Likewise, the present low potassium intake of most people differs markedly from the potassium intake on which our species evolved.

To improve health in general it is logical to assume that cutting down on salt and salty food, and eating more potassium-rich food (fruit and fresh vegetables) would be advisable.

Some people are susceptible to problems with salt; other people seem to be little affected or not to be affected all the time. Steroids, HRT, some antidepressants and many other prescribed drugs increase sensitivity to salt and can precipitate acne and eczema. - I am suggesting that cutting down on salt and eating more fruit/veg will gradually lessen problems with acne and eczema. - Why not give it a try? - It worked for me. - It could work for you. - It costs nothing; no drugs are involved; and there are no side-effects - other than benefiting your health in many diverse ways - lower blood pressure, lower risk of stroke, heart disease, enlarged heart, type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, obesity, etc...(o: - Go on! - Try it!

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