Sammy's Skin: Crystal Clear

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Crystal Clear

(Sam has a slight obsession with his sister's rain boots)

How beautiful is this boy!? I snapped this photo yesterday morning after coming off a 10 day course of oral steroids. Absolutely flawless skin with not a single blemish or hint of pink anywhere. It was great while it lasted. He slept so well all week! Now he is off the medicine entirely, and as expected last night we started seeing traces of red creeping back to the surface. Then today he woke up an absolute mess, fully erupted again and covered head to toe in itchy, blotchy rashed-over skin.

I feel like we've exhausted the allergy angle and route for now, and I'm losing faith in modern/western/traditional medicine (as far as this particular ailment is concerned). I am ready for a new approach and a couple of different conversations I've had within the past week are pointing me toward natural healing and homeopathy type therapies. My Aunt Susan gave me a book called Healing Psoriasis by Dr. Pagano that approaches skin disease from a holistic angle. I can't apply this exactly because Sam is so young but I hope to follow it loosely ... still need to actually finish reading the book to fully evaluate it but the first few chapters have me excited because they are suggesting some things I have suspected intuitively along... basically that this is not a SKIN issue at the core, but an outward manifestation of something amiss internally in Sam's little body. Also, I myself have some eczema/psoriasis (not sure which) on my right hand that is quite bothersome. It started on a small section of my little pinky about 4 years ago, then grew to cover the whole finger, and in the past couple of years has spread further to cover two other entire fingers and is starting to creep onto my palm. It is dry, blistery, and cracks, bleeds, and peels in cycles but is almost always present in some form. If it can spread that much in 4 years I feel nervous about it covering my entire hand in very little time so I am very interested in this healing method for myself also.

1 comment:

UnknownMay 27, 2012 at 5:45 AM
Have you read doctor rapaports paper about red skin......?? Here is the link to a teleconference with him talking about red skin.....https://www.freeconference.com/Recordings/ConferenceRecording-11672357-134245.mp3

And his paper and info is here. http://itsan.org/research-and-resources.html#Dr._Mototsugu_Fukaya

We have gone down the homeopathic route and the allergen route and nothing helped!! Xoxox Loren
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I am CJ, mother of three. Our youngest, Sam, has had eczema from birth. At 9 months that eczema became severe (covering 95% of the body). From that time forward Sam's body was constantly inflamed with the only relief coming from topical steroids and other drugs. As soon as we'd stop a drug, Sam's skin would flare right back up from head to toe. I knew this band-aid method would never get to the root of the problem. Like many mothers of children with eczema, I quickly became frustrated with the lack of answers from our pediatrician and allergist and unwilling to accept that a lifetime of steroid cream and allergy medication is the only cure. I knew there must be something causing the eczema that we could uncover and eliminate. This is the record of our journey- how I came to find a long term and drug-free solution for Sam's eczema.