Something to try
Eczema is basically your body reacting to your dry skin, as my doctor
tells me. Common sense leads to the assumption that keeping your skin
hydrated would cure the problem, right? Creams designed to ‘dry’ the
fluid often associated with eczema can in most cases make the
reaction worse the next time it comes up.
I have a solution. I’m not going to say it works for everyone. But it
worked for me. I just recently found it. Last night I took the advice
of a friend and added a pinch of salt to my iced tea. I’m an iced tea-
aholic. My friend told me that adding salt to my *sugared* iced tea
would make the water in it much easier to absorb. My hands and legs
were broken out badly. I have bad ezcema. I woke up this morning. The
affected spots weren’t vanished. However, they had lost
the ‘reactive’ quality. That is, the spots weren’t raised or itchy or
oozy. My worst spot, on my hand, now is normal, although it still has
to heal, like a cut would. I believe my skin ‘cleared up’ because my
body absorbed a great deal of the water in the iced tea last night. I
woke up this morning with my skin (in general) slightly puffy and
moist, completely hydrated like it gets after being on an iv for a
day.
This is the honest truth. It won’t cost you anything to try it, and
it’s not risky. It’s just a pinch of salt in whatever you like to
drink, be it coffee or whatever. (as long as it is made of water… I
don’t know if it’d work for hard alcohol or stuff like that). I’d
imagine iced tea or koolaid or such would be the best. Or just a
glass of sugar water, if you can stomach that. The key, it seems, is
sugar AND salt added to water. I used about 1/8 teaspoon to a BIG
(48oz.) glass. A pinch of salt in an 8 oz glass would be enough. And
the great thing is, you use so little salt in the drink that you
can’t taste the salt. If you can taste the salt go easier, you don’t
need that much salt in it. Please let me know if this works. It’s
based on common sense, but it may be that it only works for me. I’d
really like to hear about it if you try. Like I said, it costs you
nothing, unless you count the cost of a pinch of salt, and it’s not
going to harm you (providing you don’t have to abstain from salt).
Thank you, and I really look forward to hearing any comments.
Laura