10-13-2009, 04:37 AM
Take serious consideration of your general health, digestion issues, gluten (wheat) tolerance, dairy tolerance and allergies (environmental and food). Get your house and diet clean and simple. No junk food. No artificial anything. Get rid of dust mites, and animal dander.
Read everything you can. Be careful with steroids, as well as complicated over the counter topical lotions. Many have chemicals that cause additional problems in them. MD's tend to jump into steroids and in my experience it only helps for a short while and then there is a terrible rebound with spreading and continuous flares. If you do take steroids, follow the taper off rules and instructions.
Stress does not help.
Some people have good results with moderate exercise sun, good diet, and removing irritants. Some theories past "immune disorder" are allergies, hypothyroidism type 2, compromised adrenal function, liver and digestion function. Body toxicity is in question.
Skin issues do not creep up overnight and do not usually go away quickly either. Sometimes you get super reactive to things that never bothered you before, a sort of general toxicity overload.
For scalp stay away from sodium laurel sulfates. You might try a vinegar rinse . Dilute it if skin is irritated. Smells bad but will go away when dry. Dead sea salts in bath. Remove soaps and store bought shampoos, as well as fabric softeners, detergents and perfumes from home and clothing.
This is a complicated situation, but try not to let it get out of control.
Read everything you can. Be careful with steroids, as well as complicated over the counter topical lotions. Many have chemicals that cause additional problems in them. MD's tend to jump into steroids and in my experience it only helps for a short while and then there is a terrible rebound with spreading and continuous flares. If you do take steroids, follow the taper off rules and instructions.
Stress does not help.
Some people have good results with moderate exercise sun, good diet, and removing irritants. Some theories past "immune disorder" are allergies, hypothyroidism type 2, compromised adrenal function, liver and digestion function. Body toxicity is in question.
Skin issues do not creep up overnight and do not usually go away quickly either. Sometimes you get super reactive to things that never bothered you before, a sort of general toxicity overload.
For scalp stay away from sodium laurel sulfates. You might try a vinegar rinse . Dilute it if skin is irritated. Smells bad but will go away when dry. Dead sea salts in bath. Remove soaps and store bought shampoos, as well as fabric softeners, detergents and perfumes from home and clothing.
This is a complicated situation, but try not to let it get out of control.