Eczema sufferer’s skin made worse the by use of steroid creams? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eczema-sufferer-who-felt-like-9262871. The person in this report’s condition improved when she stopped using steroid creams.
Why might steroid creams have made her eczema worse?
She was using too much cream too frequently and therefore her skin became addicted to the use of steroid creams [she was also on oral steroids] and needed more and more quantity to get any relief. Eventually the only solution was for her to go ‘cold turkey’ and not use the creams, which she had been using for 20 years.
Despite the fact that steroid creams are about the only treatment doctors have to offer patients, steroid creams need to be used VERY sparingly. Use of steroid creams thins the skin.
There was another route for her [and all other sufferers] apart from the use of steroid creams
- to find out the foods she was intolerant of.
- to change the products she was washing her clothes with to the brand ‘Surcare’.
- start using fragrance and colour free soaps, shower gels, shampoos etc for example the brand ‘Simple’ and
- take a zinc supplement.
Read my book ‘Food Intolerance Solutions’ for more information.
