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		<title>By: elroy_1600</title>
		<link>http://www.seborrhoeic-dermatitis.ev-by.org/2006/12/28/new-member-story/#comment-2052</link>
		<author>elroy_1600</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Since you have had SD for a while it will take a bit longer for you to recover.&#160; Eczema and asthma are related and IBS well your not the only one.&#160; I mentioned in my posts the importance of cleansing or detoxification.&#160; I would be careful with the asthma part...take it slow.&#160; As you clean your body you will experience greater symptoms.&lt;BR&gt;
Everyone does some worse than others.&#160;&#160; Remmember to focus on the cause not the symptoms.&lt;BR&gt;
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For supervision I used a natural holistic type md actually a chiropracter, general MD practiotioner (integrative medicine) and nutritionist to guide me.&#160; You just need one...I had many problems besides SD.&#160; The MD was good for a few blood tests etc. Seeing another mainstream doc is a waste(disease management).&#160; You'll never get to the root of the problem.&lt;BR&gt;
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Your body might not be able to support the vitamins.&#160; I would not give up.&#160; If you need a product recommendation let me know.&lt;BR&gt;
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Shampoos. Natural only with ingredients like tea tree oil, selenium, or neem oil.&lt;BR&gt;
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I sent you articles.&#160; Let me know your thoughts.&#160; You call the shots. I'm not a doctor.&lt;BR&gt;
I'm just educating you not medicating you.&lt;BR&gt;
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<p>Since you have had SD for a while it will take a bit longer for you to recover.&nbsp; Eczema and asthma are related and IBS well your not the only one.&nbsp; I mentioned in my posts the importance of cleansing or detoxification.&nbsp; I would be careful with the asthma part&#8230;take it slow.&nbsp; As you clean your body you will experience greater symptoms.<br />
Everyone does some worse than others.&nbsp;&nbsp; Remmember to focus on the cause not the symptoms.</p>
<p>For supervision I used a natural holistic type md actually a chiropracter, general MD practiotioner (integrative medicine) and nutritionist to guide me.&nbsp; You just need one&#8230;I had many problems besides SD.&nbsp; The MD was good for a few blood tests etc. Seeing another mainstream doc is a waste(disease management).&nbsp; You&#8217;ll never get to the root of the problem.</p>
<p>Your body might not be able to support the vitamins.&nbsp; I would not give up.&nbsp; If you need a product recommendation let me know.</p>
<p>Shampoos. Natural only with ingredients like tea tree oil, selenium, or neem oil.</p>
<p>I sent you articles.&nbsp; Let me know your thoughts.&nbsp; You call the shots. I&#8217;m not a doctor.<br />
I&#8217;m just educating you not medicating you.</p>
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		<title>By: Neva Marjory</title>
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		<author>Neva Marjory</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the input. I guess I misinterpreted &#34;chemicals&#34; in the
first responder's reply. I assumed this meant alcohol or drugs as in
substance abuse. Newbie mistake.

I'm all for a natural cure. I've been a health nut for a while now.
I just wonder how long a course of the natural remedies will take show
an impact on my skin. For the record, I used Nizoral before not
Hydrocortisone. Nonetheless, I hear your point loud and clear.

If it means anything I've also recently been diagnosed with asthma and
IBS. Both are thought to be diseases of inflamation. All this stuff
seemed to come down all at once, which suggests some deficiency
somewhere.

How much fish oil is reccomended per day? Is there a preferred
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DHA/EPA split I'm looking for? Ironically, I stopped taking a
multivitamin two yrs ago b/c I didn't think it made a difference.

My interest in chemicals is due largely to a lack of patience. I'm a
single guy wanting to see Mr. Red Face every time I look in the
mirror. It zaps the confidence just a tad. Thx for helping me see
the big picture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the input. I guess I misinterpreted &quot;chemicals&quot; in the<br />
first responder&#8217;s reply. I assumed this meant alcohol or drugs as in<br />
substance abuse. Newbie mistake.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m all for a natural cure. I&#8217;ve been a health nut for a while now.<br />
I just wonder how long a course of the natural remedies will take show<br />
an impact on my skin. For the record, I used Nizoral before not<br />
Hydrocortisone. Nonetheless, I hear your point loud and clear.</p>
<p>If it means anything I&#8217;ve also recently been diagnosed with asthma and<br />
IBS. Both are thought to be diseases of inflamation. All this stuff<br />
seemed to come down all at once, which suggests some deficiency<br />
somewhere.</p>
<p>How much fish oil is reccomended per day? Is there a preferred<br />
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DHA/EPA split I&#8217;m looking for? Ironically, I stopped taking a<br />
multivitamin two yrs ago b/c I didn&#8217;t think it made a difference.</p>
<p>My interest in chemicals is due largely to a lack of patience. I&#8217;m a<br />
single guy wanting to see Mr. Red Face every time I look in the<br />
mirror. It zaps the confidence just a tad. Thx for helping me see<br />
the big picture.</p>
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		<title>By: elroy_1600</title>
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		<author>elroy_1600</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;FONT FACE="arial,helvetica"&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE="2" PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"&gt;Jr,&lt;BR&gt;
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Welcome to the board.&#160; Seems as though stress and poor diet triggered your SD.&#160; Me too years ago when I was in college.&#160; Common pattern in most.&#160; So you changed your diet and things looked good from there, switching from processed chemical based foods to nutritious whole foods that actually heal the body.&#160; Fish oil - good choice. &lt;BR&gt;
So if this makes sense then why would you continue to use chemicals on your face or scalp?&#160; Chemicals are toxic your body knows this.&#160; Steroids or non steroid creams suppress the immune system...not very good.&#160; Your body will&#160; never heal.&#160; The medical system is about&#160; disease management and sympton suppression. Your body is sick so heal it..&#160; I used at least 15 different creams over the years that did nothing.&#160;&#160; Elidel worked well till I think it gave me Rosacea(not confirmed) and then I found out about the long term cancer warnings on it so I&#160; stopped cold.&#160; Went natural and now I'm in complete remission and&#160; drug free.&#160; Review some of my pervious posts and I will email you some articles.&#160; &lt;BR&gt;
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R&lt;BR&gt;
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Here's a good explanation of what's happening:&lt;BR&gt;
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This is evidence that the hydrocortisone is not addressing the cause; it simply suppressing the symptoms. I cannot express to you how dangerous this is. You really need to address the cause of the irritation in order to receive true healing. Your skin is manifesting those symptoms to warn you of the dangers taking place within your body. Silencing the symptoms gives a false sense of security. It is like taking the battery out of a smoke alarm so that you no longer hear the annoying beep. The purpose of the smoke alarm's high pitch ring is to alert of impending danger and to save life. Silencing that warning signal is dangerous. This is the same thing that you are doing with the hydrocortisone; you're shutting off the body's warning signal. Your body is warning you of the high toxicity that exists within it. The inflammation, redness, etc. is evidence of the fight existing between your immune system and those toxic invaders. Hydrocortisone (steroids) suppress the immune system and impedes their ability to fight and defend against those toxic invaders. Hydrocortisone is an anti-histamine. A natural anti-histamine is vitamin C; thus, you can achieve that type of relief naturally without the harmful side effects of your cortisone treatments.&lt;BR&gt;
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Nonetheless, the most important thing that you need to address is the identification of the toxic allergen/irritant that is promoting your distress. When you get rid of the thing that is promoting your distress than the body can truly heal. Hydrocortisone is not addressing the cause; its simply suppressing your body's warning signal to alert of the danger happening within the body. In addition, and because the body sees the medication as an additional foreign allergen/irritant it is causing further damage to the immune system and promoting the longterm suffering.&lt;BR&gt;
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My same recommendations still apply. You need to rid your environment of the allergen/irritant promoting the irritation, feed your body the nourishment needed to replenish the deficiencies that are represented with the flareup (beta carotene, zinc, selenium, essential fatty acids, vitamin C, D, &#38; E) through your whole food intake, and feed your skin the nourishment (through natural/organic product) it needs to promote true healing. Healing and symptom suppression are not the same thing. With the steroid/hydrocortisone treatments, you're simply covering the problem; thus the problem remains. You need to remove the problem so that the healing can complete its course&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;" SIZE="3" PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
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<p>Welcome to the board.&nbsp; Seems as though stress and poor diet triggered your SD.&nbsp; Me too years ago when I was in college.&nbsp; Common pattern in most.&nbsp; So you changed your diet and things looked good from there, switching from processed chemical based foods to nutritious whole foods that actually heal the body.&nbsp; Fish oil - good choice. <br />
So if this makes sense then why would you continue to use chemicals on your face or scalp?&nbsp; Chemicals are toxic your body knows this.&nbsp; Steroids or non steroid creams suppress the immune system&#8230;not very good.&nbsp; Your body will&nbsp; never heal.&nbsp; The medical system is about&nbsp; disease management and sympton suppression. Your body is sick so heal it..&nbsp; I used at least 15 different creams over the years that did nothing.&nbsp;&nbsp; Elidel worked well till I think it gave me Rosacea(not confirmed) and then I found out about the long term cancer warnings on it so I&nbsp; stopped cold.&nbsp; Went natural and now I&#8217;m in complete remission and&nbsp; drug free.&nbsp; Review some of my pervious posts and I will email you some articles.&nbsp; </p>
<p>R</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a good explanation of what&#8217;s happening:</p>
<p>This is evidence that the hydrocortisone is not addressing the cause; it simply suppressing the symptoms. I cannot express to you how dangerous this is. You really need to address the cause of the irritation in order to receive true healing. Your skin is manifesting those symptoms to warn you of the dangers taking place within your body. Silencing the symptoms gives a false sense of security. It is like taking the battery out of a smoke alarm so that you no longer hear the annoying beep. The purpose of the smoke alarm&#8217;s high pitch ring is to alert of impending danger and to save life. Silencing that warning signal is dangerous. This is the same thing that you are doing with the hydrocortisone; you&#8217;re shutting off the body&#8217;s warning signal. Your body is warning you of the high toxicity that exists within it. The inflammation, redness, etc. is evidence of the fight existing between your immune system and those toxic invaders. Hydrocortisone (steroids) suppress the immune system and impedes their ability to fight and defend against those toxic invaders. Hydrocortisone is an anti-histamine. A natural anti-histamine is vitamin C; thus, you can achieve that type of relief naturally without the harmful side effects of your cortisone treatments.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the most important thing that you need to address is the identification of the toxic allergen/irritant that is promoting your distress. When you get rid of the thing that is promoting your distress than the body can truly heal. Hydrocortisone is not addressing the cause; its simply suppressing your body&#8217;s warning signal to alert of the danger happening within the body. In addition, and because the body sees the medication as an additional foreign allergen/irritant it is causing further damage to the immune system and promoting the longterm suffering.</p>
<p>My same recommendations still apply. You need to rid your environment of the allergen/irritant promoting the irritation, feed your body the nourishment needed to replenish the deficiencies that are represented with the flareup (beta carotene, zinc, selenium, essential fatty acids, vitamin C, D, &amp; E) through your whole food intake, and feed your skin the nourishment (through natural/organic product) it needs to promote true healing. Healing and symptom suppression are not the same thing. With the steroid/hydrocortisone treatments, you&#8217;re simply covering the problem; thus the problem remains. You need to remove the problem so that the healing can complete its course</font><font COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;" SIZE="3" PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></p>
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		<title>By: Neva Marjory</title>
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		<author>Neva Marjory</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the input. What topicals seemed to make things worse for you?

The itching/redness was so infuriating that I had convinced myself it
was diet-related. I'd moved to Chicago and was indulging regulary in
the city's GI delights, mostly cheap beer, deep dish pizza, and hot
dogs. I'd previously been very healthy, so in the last six months
I've rededicated myself to my healthy lifestyle. I've probably had 3
beers since January and dropped almost 40 lbs from a diet rich in
protein, green veggies, and healthy fats. I haven't noticed many skin
changes as a result of the change.

I currently take a packet of Coromega fish oil every day. Have people
had success managing SD by supplementing a greater amount of fish oil?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the input. What topicals seemed to make things worse for you?</p>
<p>The itching/redness was so infuriating that I had convinced myself it<br />
was diet-related. I&#8217;d moved to Chicago and was indulging regulary in<br />
the city&#8217;s GI delights, mostly cheap beer, deep dish pizza, and hot<br />
dogs. I&#8217;d previously been very healthy, so in the last six months<br />
I&#8217;ve rededicated myself to my healthy lifestyle. I&#8217;ve probably had 3<br />
beers since January and dropped almost 40 lbs from a diet rich in<br />
protein, green veggies, and healthy fats. I haven&#8217;t noticed many skin<br />
changes as a result of the change.</p>
<p>I currently take a packet of Coromega fish oil every day. Have people<br />
had success managing SD by supplementing a greater amount of fish oil?</p>
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		<title>By: Neva Marjory</title>
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		<author>Neva Marjory</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JR,

Glad to hear that you don't have rosacea that stuff is wicked.

I have facial SD with the accompanied raccoon redness.

I tried many topicals which did nothing but make things worse. This
is not to say that these chemicals will not work for you but I just
feel you need to be very aware that if the meds make things worse,
don't get caught in the cycle of going from one med to the next.

I started to clear once I abstained from chemicals and focused on a
healthy diet and lifestyle.

Good luck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JR,</p>
<p>Glad to hear that you don&#8217;t have rosacea that stuff is wicked.</p>
<p>I have facial SD with the accompanied raccoon redness.</p>
<p>I tried many topicals which did nothing but make things worse. This<br />
is not to say that these chemicals will not work for you but I just<br />
feel you need to be very aware that if the meds make things worse,<br />
don&#8217;t get caught in the cycle of going from one med to the next.</p>
<p>I started to clear once I abstained from chemicals and focused on a<br />
healthy diet and lifestyle.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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