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Just wondering others thoughts on differential diagnosis and treatment approach. I know skin is usually the last to really improve during treatment, but the constant flare of the itching blisters and crusty sometimes oozing ulcers is really starting to wear me thin. I was doing some searching as was looking into my new dry scaly sometimes scabbing patches on my scalp. While doing this search it brought up several types of eczema one involving the palms and soles of your feet. I get a few itchy spots on my hands, but mostly affected on my feet and toes and now scalp. I know all coming from my internal gut imbalances, but do you think it matters if we are approaching from a yeast/fungus standpoint vs eczema? Has anyone gone to the dermatologist for accurate diagnosis and did it matter in regards to treatment? Also would love to hear from those who had either athletes foot or eczema and now have healed, how long did it take to clear? Thanks!
CP you can connect yeast and
CP you can connect yeast and fungus overgrownth with all kinds of skin disturbances. The disturbances in health caused by yeast overgrowth are dangerously underdiagnosed and poorly understood by the western medical community. So yeast is associated with eczema and psoriasis, other microbial imbalance with rosacia and acne, but yeast is also associated with acne and rosacea. We both know that when there is a predominance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in our gut and a lack of goodguys, this means a lot of immune functions are not happening, detoxification is not happening, and yeast is overgrowing. It is kind of hard to point to one particular microbial or yeast imbalance although I read in many places that holistic doctors see yeast overgrowth linked to ALL of the skin conditions. I don't think in any way that your treatment would change. But always worth talking to Dr. Brizman to see what she says. Anyay you know that even things like "Raynaud's Syndrome" is a name given to a set of clinical observations by a western trained doctor. To an eastern doctor that uses a different set of diagnostic tools and a different treatment paradigm, these names have no intrinsic value in terms of approach to healing. I think you know this well, and I understand the temptation to better name something, especially when it is so bothersome, in an attempt to understand it better.
If we don't excel at health, the only other option is disease.
Mimi, I totally agree
Mimi, I totally agree everything goes back to the overgrowth and the deep seeded imbalances. Just seems to be getting worse and worse. It gets to the point sometimes that I have joked about cutting them off. I think it is just human nature to look for answers and know exactly what I am dealing with, but in the end I know in chinese medicine it does t really matter. Just hoping it will eventually ease and heal completely. After I was reading more I started to remember issues I had as a child with my hands. I had these huge fluid filled blisters that we initially hought were just ordinary blisters that my parents tried to pop and instead each morning we were alarmed as they would grow even larger and baffled all the Dr's. Eventually they surgically removed them. Never did get a diagnosis, but now wonder if in someway linked? And the mystery continues!
Yes, indeed! So sorry about
Yes, indeed! So sorry about those childhood symptoms. Honestly the more I read Healingnaturallybybee (I realize she is just one perspective) the more I think that something like the blisters on your poor little hands was your body's way of trying to detoxify from something (byproducts of vaccination or antibiotics or some other medication or exposure?)
If we don't excel at health, the only other option is disease.
Totally possible, who knows?!
Totally possible, who knows?! Hoping I won't have to relive that symptom again through a healing crisis, but will take everything in stride. Weird how I totally blocked it out of my mind until now. I will have to remember to tell Dr. M about it at my next appointment.