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xta
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About Me
I'm the mother of two children and married to a visual artist. I am a writer, and I write grants for a living. My husband and I started a non-profit called www.spacetaker.org, which provides emerging and mid-career artists with tools and resources to advance and manage their professional careers.
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Close Eczema
At 3 months, my son began to show signs of eczema. His pedi first diagnosed it as seborreah, but as it got worse and worse, as people started shying away from us, or staring at us with disbelief, it was rediagnosed as eczema. Our naturopath linked his skin problems to food allergies, and sure enough, once we cut out gluten, dairy, citrus, etc. his skin improved immensely. His skin is not as cracked and infected on a daily basis; however, we're still struggling with severe itchiness daily.
Treatments
- Eucerin Working / Worked
- keeps skin well hydrated to avoid the cracking open
- Hydrocortisone Working / Worked
- Hate! Using! It! but have needed to because the skin got so bad. Side effects are that when the inflammation gets bad again, the effect is worse on him -- cracks more easily because the skin has thinned.
- Melaleuca Tea tree oil Somewhat Helpful
- antiseptic
Close Food Allergies
Young Son has food allergies: wheat, dairy, eggs, citrus.... Somedays it seems he's allergic to everything
Treatments
- Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
- Avoiding Gluten and Dairy works pretty well, but still am dealing with allergies.
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