Dust Mites

Our new Leather furniture has just arrived. This is great news as it means the old ones can go and we will no longer need throws to cover them. The throws are bad for me because of the dust mites they contain. Eczema is often triggered by Dust mites in your home. The Dust mite is the number one eczema trigger. About ten percent of the general population develops an allergy due to dust mites. An allergic reaction to dust mites is characterized by eyes that are itchy and watery, sneezing, a runny nose, nasal congestion, ears that are blocked, chronic respiratory problems such as head colds and post nasal drip and asthma. The most common form of eczema, atopic dermatitis, develops next.
Dust mites are not visible to the human naked eye. When viewed under a microscope, they are extremely small. Dust mites are shaped like an oval, have eight legs and are cream in colour. Dust mites have sticky pads on their feet that enable them to burrow into almost any kind of fiber in your home. They are most often found living and breathing in your furniture and carpeting. It is only the particles of dead dust mites that can efficiently be cleaned up with a vacuum cleaner.
Dust mites thrive on consuming the shed skin ( there is lots of that in my house ) of people as well as human fingernails and hair. They also eat animal fur, bacteria, fungi and pollen. Dust mites thrive in environments where the humidity is anywhere in the area of seventy to eighty percent. They also require temperatures anywhere between seventy-five and eighty degrees. A humidity level of below forty will not allow dust mites to live or thrive for very long. Thus, if you stay in fairly humid environments, you should keep dust mites out of your home as much as possible to avoid eczema flare-ups. As such, it is best to avoid having carpets in your home. I have laminate flooring in the majority of my home and I am now looking to start replacing all curtains with blinds

Eczema and Diet

Having helped my eczema a great deal by learning about my food intolerance's and allergies I have become much more interested in how healthy Living and eating help conditions which people otherwise find untreatable. I watched Amanda Hamilton's documentary called The Spa Of Embarrassing Diseases and this really opened my eyes to Holistic health. I found the following whilst looking more into this subject.

There are two main reasons why you are suffering with eczema. The first reason is because your body is overwhelmed with toxin and waste.The second reason you may suffer with a disease is because of insufficient nutrients caused by improper or insufficient diet. The main causes of this are (1) inadequate consumption of foods that supply healthy nutrients; (2) poor absorption where your digestive system has great absorption problems and (3) excessive loss of nutrient where nutrients are being used up to ward off other illnesses.If you do not eat the appropriate amount of, or quality of nutrients which make up a healthy diet over a long period of time you will suffer some sort of health crisis. When your body is suffering a health crisis it will produce symptoms that act as early warning signals. When you go to the doctor they will prescribe something, anything that will suppress these symptoms or warnings. But just like the rats in the underground tunnels, these symptoms become stronger and become immune to the treatments and drugs.Then, when you return to your doctor they will prescribe even stronger drugs and medicines.You need to look at the foods you are eating to ensure they are supplying your body with the important health enhancing nutrients that your body is crying out for.The foods that usually effect people who suffer with eczema are common. Deficiencies in essential fatty acids, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin E, Zinc, Calcium, vitamin B, Silica and Selenium to name just a few.With sufficient and regular supplies of these nutrients eczematous skin will begin to heal and disappear completely.