So I've had a rash of clients with skin conditions of late (excuse the pun!) who have been suffering with eczema. I wanted to share with you my successes to help people understand that you can get better, significantly better with Naturopathic Medicine.
One case I have been helping is with a 6 yr old little girl who's mother was at her wits end with this poor little thing scratching all night and developing welts and bleeding from her sores from scratching so much. She had also started reacting to multiple foods and her diet was really getting quite restricted. To add to this she had had a number of trips to the hospital due to asthma flaring up. So life was quite stressful. Unfortunately as is often the case they were doing and had tried all the mainstream pharmaceutical answers and she was just not getting better. She had undergone some allergy testing but just avoiding these foods was not really getting her better and she seemed to be developing more allergies.
As a naturopath I took a detailed case history. This is no small thing in terms of understanding someone's health. I can see that is one of the ways that the medical profession misses patterns and fails to join the dots. It became clear to me that this little girls gut was really dysbiotic and basically messed up. She had had to have repeated antibiotics when she was younger as part of the treatment for her asthma. Her gut flora was not happy to the point she had sloppy and very smelly stools. Clearly there was a degree of gut inflammation and leaky gut.
So we got started on a protocol to help reduce her allergic reactivity, support her immune system, strengthen her digestion and repair her gut. I also chose suitable herbal medicines for her to reduce her allergies and repair the skin. Slowly but surely she has made steady progress and I'd like to share a photo of the transition below:
Needless to say I am thrilled to bits to be able to help this little girl and her mother is so very thankful that she saw the process through. We still have a little way to go but she is improved about 70%. To add to this she has not had a single asthma attack as normally by this time of year she would have had numerous trips to the hospital. I hope this encourages others to consider seeing a Naturopath.
Herbal medicine is truly amazing.
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