21 Quick & Simple Eczema Tips

Want to improve your skin, RIGHT NOW?

Here’s a list of tips I personally used to follow which I found to have greatly improved my eczema.

Every little thing adds up so don’t overlook on any of them.

These are all experience-driven, practical and simple.

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1. Learn to say no for your own health.

That means if you know you’re going to fall into some trap e.g. a party, to dine in a restaurant with potential allergens, to eat something due to social pressure.

Say no.

2. How to kill an itch (my top 3 ways).

The hierarchy of what I would do:

1. Apply herbal medicine (my favourite is Chickweed gel).
2. Ice your affected area (always prepare some blocks in the freezer).
3. Slap the affected area because pain relieves itch.

Read how to make your own herbal medicine for eczema.

3. Get support from people you hang around with.

This includes your family and friends.

Tell them about your problem and how they can help you for example, if they catch you breaking a diet rule then get them to stop you.

4. Moisturize the skin with a light coat of Vaseline.

Because I live in Shanghai, it’s really hard to get hold of natural skin products. The only product I resort to using is Vaseline.

But I only use light coats of it or else it traps my skin too much and irritates, causing itches.

5. Get an allergy test to get a clue about your sensitivities.

I said “get a clue” because allergy tests are not 100% accurate, they only give you a general idea of what you could be allergic to (I actually learned this from Selena, my friend who runs Amazing and Atopic).

Check out the basic idea of a food allergy IgE blood test she experienced.

6. Eat your way out of eczema with the right foods.

Eat lots of fish for omega-3 and lots of vegetables for alkalization.

Food is actually nature’s best medicine.

I recently discovered an eBook A-to-Z of 50 Natural Beauty Ingredients that you can get for free over here. Don’t miss out, it lists out key foods to improve your beauty – obviously, skin too. Really useful.

7. Go into an extremely restrictive diet.

I said extreme because I’m a man of efficiency, I like maximum speed no matter how “bad” the foods taste.

Here are the general guidelines of how I eat:

• No dairy products.
• No gluten.
• No artificial chemicals.
• No foods with naturally unwanted substances e.g. tomatoes, grapes with natural MSG.
• No excessive flavourers e.g. salt, vinegar, sugar, spices.
• No yeast.
• No more than 20% of acidifying foods in any one day.

Click here for my food shopping list.

Or if you like a preparation approach, try an elimination diet like Jennifer did and found great results (my friend who blogs about itchy skin).

8. Make water your only drink.

Water is nature’s best healing medicine.

“Drinking water will hydrate your skin” is a myth, not true. It helps flush away your body of toxins.

9. Sleep early and wake up early.

Okay, that doesn’t really happen to me all the time. I have way too much work from school and I stay up late up to 1 AM.

But it’s the best rule to follow it whenever you can, and don’t lie to yourself.

Sleep is the most critical factor in recovery because sleep is required for body maintenance and that includes repairing body tissues such as the gut and the skin.

10. Reduce stress with deep breathing.

Many things get us pumping up with adrenaline in life: anger, frustration, getting stuck.

My favourite stress-relieving technique is deep breathing:

1. Forget everything, close your eyes.
2. Breathe in slowly with your nose and expand your gut.
3. Hold it in for a few seconds.
4. Exhale with your mouth and close in the gut.
5. Repeat as necessary.

Stress greatly impacts our inflammatory responses and how the body works. Being an eczema sufferer, I’ve learned to be very calm as a person and know how to reduce stress at will.

11. Chemical consumption also means usage not just eating!

This step is for the extremist. Even I only follow half of the rule.

I eat no man-made substances at all, but I still use chemically-based toothpastes, Vaseline (yes it’s unnatural), body wash and fragrances.

And yes, I don’t use any shampoo at all, my hair is used to it and it’s completely fine.

12. Read the labels of everything you eat and use.

General rule: if you can’t pronounce all of the ingredients, throw it away.

Okay… even if you can, trash it if you don’t know where they came from.

13. Make yourself in the most suitable humidity and temperature.

You need air cleaners/purifiers and the AC.

This only applies if you live in a really extreme environment for the humidity, and for the AC – we all need that for seasonal changes.

14. Sweat a lot because it helps detoxification.

It’s a love-hate relationship.

I hate doing exercises (I think everyone) but I love the reward after sweating a bucket of sweat.

After a refreshing shower, my skin feels SO MUCH better than before, it feels like as if all the bad stuff has been eliminated from my skin cells.

Sweat often!

15. Wear clothes made of 100% natural cotton.

Don’t wear fake stuff, please.

Especially polyester, find out why it’s the devil’s textile.

16. Wash your bedding and pillow cases regularly.

Because there’s this thing called house dust mites that eat your dead skin cells all over the place in your bed, clothes and even on your skin right now.

Millions of them.

Find out more about dust mites.

17. Always wash newly bought clothes before wearing or after long idleness.

Wash new clothes because they ALWAYS contain residue from the factories of dyes, chemicals and all types of crap.

Wash clothes you haven’t wore in a long time (e.g. seasonal changes) because they are often filled with dust mites, pollen, dander and all annoying allergens.

18. Take showers as cold as possible and as short as possible.

Obviously, no baths.

But aim to hit the coldest shower you can and shortest because the more you do the opposite, the more moisture and oils get stripped away from your skin.

19. Become a better person as a whole.

While this may seem off-topic on the surface, it’s actually really important. This includes:

• Knowing when to say no (as mentioned earlier).
• Have discipline so you don’t break your dietary rules.
• Don’t pile up everything to do at the last minute, learn the art of preparation and do tasks ASAP.
• Learn to become a better and social person, having more friends will give you more confidence and happiness, and reduce stress.

I’m not here to give you smart-ass tips but becoming a better person will improve everything as a whole.

20. Stop the use of all steroidal drugs and pharmaceutical treatments.

Unless for emergency.

Or else, don’t use anything that do nothing but temporarily suppress your symptoms. Don’t use steroid creams at all, it makes it worst – learn more about cortisone creams (the poison doctors give you).

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