WHY DOES MY CHILD FLARE AND THEN HAVE PERIODS OF CLEAR SKIN, THEN FLARE AGAIN?!

I get asked this question so often, and it's a great one.

"WHY DOES MY CHILD FLARE AND THEN HAVE PERIODS OF CLEAR SKIN, THEN FLARE AGAIN?!”

It's soooo frustrating.

Your child's skin clears up, looks great, then boom, back to square 1.

And nothing has changed. Diet is the same, no environmental triggers you can pinpoint, it just doesn't make sense, and comes out of nowhere.

AMIRITE?

Here's the deal, aside from coming into contact with external triggers, there are internal [normal] biochemical/hormonal changes that can happen and trigger flares.

Also, in my experience the primary reason especially when you can't ID a trigger, are changes in the skin and gut microbiomes.

  • Microbes, especially dysbiotic ones, on the skin and in the gut have life cycles.

  • When they die they release toxins.

  • Those toxins trigger flares.

Does this help? LMK what you think!