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Really dry/flaky/cracked skin
Grant,
I am, and she breastfeeds. We were eating a variety of low A foods for a little over a month before the servere reactions started. Then we moved to beef, rice, and oatmeal for a couple weeks. However, I stopped giving her any meat or rice directly because she would react so severely (swollen eyes, hives, itching, weeping eczema, diarrhea, malaise, etc).
I know histamines play an important role in the immune system, inflammation, and healing. I believe in trusting the body's ability to heal itself in most cases so I'm hesitant to take make any drastic changes. Especially since the oatmeal has helped her make such significant improvements overall. I just hate to watch her suffer with the hives and itching from the high histamine response.
If anyone else has had similar experiences with histamine intolerance or overreaction, I would like to hear about it as well.
Regards,
If the restricted diet is not healing her, then she could have some deficiency.
As for histamine, there was a mention of vit C being a natural antihistaminic. I gave a lot of applesauce fortified with vit C for a few days to my toddler and it helped resolve his runny nose issue.
That's the thing though. The restricted diet is healing her eczema, but the histamine response from the gut flora repopulating is causing hives and itching. I think it's just that her other metabolic processes just haven't caught up to help mitigate the itching and hives. If her mood, sleep, eczema and overall inflammation hadn't improved so much I would think there was a deficiency as well, but she's made so much progress so I don't think that's the problem.
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into adding more C into our diet.
Side note: I also read that vitamin D is necessary for producing a histamine lowering enzyme as well. She's too photosensitive for me to put her in the sun, but I can focus on getting some extra sun myself since she's breastfeeding.
Update: Today my face, neck and decolletage are all baby soft for the first time in years. There have been some fluctuations with my cycle so I thought for a long time that my really dry rough face was due to low estrogen or not enough progesterone (after experimenting with bioidentical prog) .
It has been 7 weeks of low/no vit A and I am in cycle day 4. It might change again but this is a huge milestone for me 😀
Quote from Guest on January 2, 2019, 5:48 amI have had dry, cracked and sometimes bleeding lips during winters for the my whole life but on detox they got extremely bad for a month in late November and early December and now are ok, still dry but not that bad. I haven't noticed a difference in the rest of my skin on detox which has been and is now slightly dry but again not bad though my heels are cracked but not painful. Some of my chronic problems (insomnia and fatigue) haven't gotten that much better 3 months in but I expect them to someday. Your dry skin will probably resolve itself once winter is over and you've had more time on the diet but I unerstand how wanting to get better now as my insomnia is really tough to deal with and can't wait for that to get better.
I really feel for you with the insomnia, Guest!! I do not have insomnia anymore, but I did so for 7+ years. For me, low caloric intake was the cause, and eating enough calories was the cure. I can easily get insomnia again through caloric restriction. I doubt everyone is the same, but if you have a poor appetite/low caloric intake it might be a factor worth considering.
Update: Today my face, neck and decolletage are all baby soft for the first time in years. There have been some fluctuations with my cycle so I thought for a long time that my really dry rough face was due to low estrogen or not enough progesterone (after experimenting with bioidentical prog).
It has been 7 weeks of low/no vit A and I am in cycle day 4. It might change again but this is a huge milestone for me
@liz That’s SO exciting!!! I hope it is a sign of things to come for you. 🙂 My cycle affects my skin as well, and it looks like there may be a connection between hormonal imbalance and vitamin A toxicity (but I’m not a scientist, so I can’t explain how, but I am going to post about it when I have time xD). I used progesterone cream for a while several years ago, but I think it stayed in my skin and is now converting to androgens... We have a lot of similar history (with dieting, too). Anyway, I hope your skin is still doing better! Has it changed at all?
Hi @puddleduck . Skin was baby soft for 2 days then it got rough again. But those 2 days were still huge improvements 🙂 i took bioidentical progesterone cream to treat my endometriosis ,for maybe 1,5 years and that has probably caused a lot of problems,yet I thought I did very thorough research before trying it but clearly not enough. At least now I am warning others from trying it. It is hormones after all.
I have just had excessive surgery, it took 8 hours and I was under anasthaesia (spelling?) for 10 hours, and a lot of endo has been removed incl I think 500+400 ml of cysts from both ovaries. They managed to save both. I will make a separate endo-topic about this soon, just need to get well first. Been in hospital since 31st and was just released. I have decided not to take any hormonal post-op treatment and I have some rant about why. Doctors think I am insane and to some extent so do I, but I for 1. Fully believe God is with me on this and 2. That my earlier use of synthetic hormones + vit A + dioxins and other have caused this in the first place. So i dont see how putting me in chemical menopause will help me in the long run.
Anyway, will make a progress post and a separate endo post soon enough.. 🙂 great to see you back 😁
@liz Oh my what an ordeal. 😟 That’s a crazy amount of cysts! I’m so glad it was a sucessful surgery, though. Having that outcome must’ve made the decision to not do the hormonal treatments a bit easier. I respect your reasons for that choice. It does seem like they recommend fighting fire with fire...
I hope you’re not in too much pain, Liz. Wishing you comfortable rest, and solid recovery! 💐
Update now I am roughly 5 months into vit A diet (but have had butter on and off the past month): cycle length has been fluctuating since surgery. This time period appeared cycle day 21 (!) but, since cycle day 18 i have had soft skin in face again, so for 4 days now which is a record. Also decolletage is insanely soft.
I have had a ridiculously tough detox week though with skin so itchy and flaking when scratcing it hurt and burned as if legs were on fire. After itch subsided was when face got soft (I dont think there is a connection to the leg itch) and red marks appeared on legs. I still have a bit of the marks left but no itch other than sporadically now and then. Looks like A trying to escape via skin... It was like small red confetti spread out but only a couple are left.
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