Over the years I’ve seen many different conditions that are serious and potentially fatal if left untreated. The interesting part no one is concerned about treating a health challenge as much as the average eczema or psoriasis patient. The inconvenience, irritation and social implications all play a role creating a sense of urgency that can be counterproductive to properly getting to the root cause. Out of desperation people typically bounce around to different practitioners and treatments without really sticking it out to give any a fair trial to see if it works. This is of course understandable but it does get in the way of getting the job done. This article will talk about the process and time frame for best results.
When patients come in they are often on corticosteroids or some other form of suppressive therapy. These are great to get bad flare ups under control but it does change what our options for testing and treatment are. One of the most useful tests to do, if not on corticosteroids or immune suppressants, is food sensitivity testing. I generally prefer to test for IgG and IgA antibodies through a blood test. This will give us a snap shot of how irritating various foods are to your system. This is not an end all and be all test but a great foundation to get a good idea of how different foods affect you. When we find out most of the key triggers it is generally recommended that you avoid most of these foods for at least a few months if not longer while we work on the underlying cause for the food sensitivities in the first place.
The next step is to work on cleaning up and repairing the GI tract. Through Asyra, Functional Bio-Analysis and Acugraph testing we get an idea of what your weak links are (see http://doctorgallant.com/treatments/). Depending on what we find, digestive support, liver and hormonal support may be implemented to support the healing process. Testing is typically done every couple weeks to see what new layers present themselves to be worked on.
While nutrition, botanical, and detoxification is being done treatment that is vital to rebalancing of the nervous system is also implemented. Settling down stress responses via meditation, yoga and improving sleep at night is crucial. Nervous system imbalance leading to allergy tendency also needs to be addressed. NMT and TBM are implemented a couple times a week to desensitize to allergens over 6-8 weeks. Information about NMT can be found at www.nmt.md. It is a mind body therapy where the practitioner uses verbal questions and muscle response testing to get yes or no answers to increase mind body awareness of the “errors” that are underlying the cause of allergies. Through this communication with a patient’s subconscious nervous system and corrections through tapping the spine allergies are dramatically reduced over time. In fact, Dr Leslie Feinberg DC (founder of NMT) has a video on the NMT website demonstrating correction of anaphylactic allergy (peanut allergy type reaction) in only one visit. http://www.nmt.md/NMTVideoANAshort.cfm
This is perhaps a bigger process than most people assume. Many would ask for a natural skin cream but this is rarely effective by itself. Worse yet if the underlying cause has not been addressed other more serious conditions can emerge. It is very common for a child to have eczema treated improperly to later on manifest asthma so treating these layers will improve overall health not just treat your skin…