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When I tell you guys my eczema is completely healed and SMOOTH like butter all because I used Snail Mucin 92 All in One Repair Cream and ate supplements. It contains 92% of snail mucin filtrate and 1000 ppm hyaluronic acid. My neck, shoulders and arm creases shoulders were itchy, flaky and so dry that I had to do something about it. I knew that eczema is related to internal issues so I ate 2 pills of collagen with ceramides, zinc to get rid of the inflammation, vitamin D and omega-3 tablets each day. For the skin, I took daily baths using the Aveeno Soothing bath and moisturize the affected skin with the snail mucin moisturizer and then lock it up with the ceráve healing ointment. The cream is not oily or greasy and you’ll literally feel your skin hydrating. 😭😭😭 My skin is healing so fast as if the eczema wasn’t even there in the first place. I’m currently working towards getting rid of the hyperpigmentation. I forgot to mention that I also occasionally used organic rosehip oil on my eczema. It worked amazing with the moisturizer!

Oh my goodness, I could actually cry right now. Tears of joy. I’ve been suffering from dyshidrotic eczema since 2018. I had it as a child and it went away, then came back with a vengeance when I had a stressful job with insane hours. Cue the multiple doctors’ and dermatologist appointments, all just prescribing steroids, dismissing diet, and asking me to moisturise (that last one made me so mad, like my skin is peeling on my hands, I’m scratching myself bloody in my sleep, and you think it never. Occurred. To. Me. That. I. Should. Moisturise?) After nearly two years on strong steroids, with my eczema starting to break through even then, I started researching myself desperately. As part of that I stumbled on this subreddit, which really opened my eyes to the variety of possible causes behind eczema. From reading the many stories, I started trying probiotics and supplements. But u/kishbish and u/ben101’s threads in this sub looked promising, so I gave that protocol a shot. I’m now 19 days in, and for the first time ever, my blisters are healing without steroids. I’m genuinely tearing up right now. So I wanted to say thank you so much to everyone on this sub for sharing your stories and encouragement. I’m a massive lurker so I may not have commented, but they brought me consolation even on my roughest days because I knew I wasn’t alone. I hope everyone in this sub manages to find a treatment that works for them, and in the meantime be supported and comforted by this amazing community. Thanks again. EDIT: Sorry all, I’m an idiot and should have shared the protocol. I have dyshidrotic eczema mainly on my hands, but also a rash that shows up on my torso and ears and rosacea on my cheeks, so started suspecting they were all gut related. Protocol: - Managed to convince a doctor to prescribe Nystatin (Nilstat tablets). I started off taking 2 3x a day at 6am, 1pm and 7pm. After 2.5 weeks moved up to 2 4x a day at 6am, 11am, 4pm and 9pm. I get mild nausea each time (don’t exercise after taking if you get nausea, I made that mistake once and it was terrible). My herxheimer reaction didn’t show up until a week later: small bumps all over the back of my hands and tiredness/brain fog, my eczema got worse. I started stressing out when it didn’t resolve within a week/5 days like I read online often, but it seems to be resolving now. Will continue this for 28 days in total and then see how I go. - Diet: I tried an elimination diet earlier this year that helped my stubborn eczema to go away (while on steroids) for a little while, but the results seemed to be inconclusive / I didn’t seem to react to anything in particular except cinnamon making my rosacea worse. But the low carb nature of that diet seemed to help so I stuck with it, but as soon as I dropped off it things went to hell again, so now on an anti-candida diet for 3 months to see how that will go (Candida Crusher website/videos/shopping list seems to be the best resource for this, so many online sites contradict each other). It’s so good to be able to have rice and potatoes again! - Probiotics: I started off taking Lifespace Broad Spectrum, but moved to food probiotics as it seems those are better (sauerkraut, milk kefir) - Supplements: First time around for elimination diet I megadosed Vitamin D (10,000iu or more a day) for 4 weeks, fish oil tablets as well (forgotten the brand sorry, but I took 3x of the strong triple fish oil tablets a day). I also played with oregano oil (6-7 drops 2x a day). This time on the nystatin I’m not doing the oregano oil but stuck with NOW Vitamin D (between 2,000-10,000iu a day), Blackmore Magnesium, Blackmores Ashwagandha, and 2x Telfast 180mg a day. I’m also carefully mega dosing Vitamin A this time, between 25,000-50,000iu a day with meals. Only going to do the Vitamin A one at this level for a month or two because I’m nervous about Vitamin A poisoning (note: also don’t do this if you are or are planning to get pregnant!) I wish I was disciplined enough to have trialled out the supplements more so I could tell which one is really helping but when you’re desperate you just sort of want to machine gun everything. I suspect though that the Vitamin A and D are helping the most. - Anti-inflammatory measures: I’m Intermittent Fasting 18:6 (eating roughly between 1-7pm only) and once a week fasting for 24 hours, since IF is meant to reduce inflammation. I’m trying to keep to a regular sleep pattern at least 6 days a week and get 7 hours of sleep at least. Also I’ve picked up meditation for the last year based on all the science around that, and do between 3-10 minutes a day which I think is helping. -Lotions: Using coconut oil to reduce the itch since I’m no longer on steroids. Also Activance Hypoallergenic conditioner (it’s actually bizarrely a lovely light leave-in moisturiser on the skin that I find really soothing). Disclaimer: I know the owner of Activance and know the ingredients are all super high quality which is what

Just thought I'd share a couple of things that I did which helped my skin heal significantly and the severe eczema I had is almost all gone, which is amazing. Please note that this is **not medical advice** though and **everyone's body is different** so while this worked for me, it may not work for everyone. I posted in this sub a few weeks ago about how to fix the eczema on my left arm. What happened subsequent to that was absolute torture and the most severe flare up I have ever experienced. In the space of 2-3 weeks, I had the following symptoms happen all at the same time: * My right ear was completely covered in eczema including the surrounding skin areas behind the ear and around the scalp, and the worst thing is that the eczema was infected, so it was weeping disgusting yellow liquid and crusting all around the ear when it dried up. My entire pinna was infected as was my ear canal which was also discharging yellow liquid - the ear canal discharge condition is called otitis externa. At one point the ear was so itchy that I felt like scratching my entire ear out or cutting my ear off. * My left arm got so itchy one night that I scratched in my sleep and the next morning I woke up with bleeding wounds all over my arm including a particularly large wound in my elbow crease. They were incredibly painful. After the rashes and wounds began healing, my arm suddenly got swollen and became red all over which signalled another infection. * My neck had massive patches of bleeding, dry scaly skin and cracked skin all over, including towards my shoulder. These also hurt a lot. * Dry patches of eczema also ended up on my eyelids and on various parts of my face. * I also had dyshidrotic eczema on my left hand, particularly near my ring finger. I was an insomniac for about 2-3 weeks, barely sleeping at night. Showering was an ordeal because I could not bend my left arm due to the swelling from the wound and because the wound was healing in my elbow crease, so I was pretty much one-handed for that period. I went to the hospital emergency department when I first had weeping and crusting all over my right ear and I was drip-fed antibiotics, plus a course of oral antibiotics. I went to the emergency again the night my ear itched until I felt like scratching the whole ear off, because the itch was so severe it lasted about 4-5 hours (I could barely sit down the entire time). I went to my GP (doctor) twice. In the end, the combination of the below is what helped me: 1. I was given 2 courses of antibiotics - first by the doctor at the ED, and second by my GP. The antibiotics definitely helped to cure the bacterial infection I had. 2. My doctor friend asked me to put betadine (it's a dark yellow/orangey ointment that is antiseptic and contains iodine) on my wounds on my left arm plus on the entire right ear. The betadine cured the infection on the ear really well and fast. After applying betadine, we applied jelonet on top of it (it's a dressing covered in paraffin so it is a pretty oily dressing which locks in the betadine and moisture onto the skin). For my left arm I then wrapped the whole arm in a crepe bandage after that to prevent me from scratching - I did the wrapping mostly for night time. 3. I also applied Dermeze ointment which is a really good ointment to moisturise dry sensitive skin with. I previously used Cetaphil but Dermeze ointment is the best. Use that for moisturising dry patches. 4. My GP prescribed me 2 creams - Elidel and Kenacomb. Elidel is a non-steroid cream and it didn't work for my neck but it worked for my face. Kenacomb contains a tiny amount of steroid but it is largely antibacterial and antifungal so it helped with my neck, ear and left arm. She did not prescribe me any steroids because I specifically told her not to. 5. My GP also got me to do LED treatment. I have done 2 treatments so far and it has been good. 6. I completely changed my diet. No refined sugar, no processed food, no dairy, no wheat, no red meat, no citrus, no night shades (class of vegetables), no alcohol, no coffee. Drink at least 3L of water each day. I mostly have fish, a lot of vegetables and liquidy foods like oats/porridge and soups, and fruits for dessert. Sometimes I have sweet potato or potato as well. I avoid strawberries and citrus though, as mentioned. I will continue this diet for the next 3 months. 7. Upped my supplements intake. Everyday I take a Defense Support multivitamin which includes vit A, C, K, zinc and magnesium. I also take Lysine, activated vit B, probiotics, triple-strength omega 3, and I double my vit D intake (1000iu x2) because I am vit D deficient. 8. I went to see a naturopath as well and she is a herbalist too so she makes powders from natural herbs so she gave me one to help 'settle' my digestive gut and another one to clear eczema. I take 2 small scoops with water in the morning and at night, alternating. After all the above, and after 3 weeks, my ear is completely healed save for a