Food Is Not The Root Cause of Your Little One's Eczema! Bold statement? Read on!

Is your little one on an elimination diet for her eczema, beyond common triggers like gluten, dairy and eggs? Or maybe she’s on a “healthy” diet that removes whole real foods, food groups, and categories of foods?

Diet culture promises health and healing if we restrict the fuel our bodies need to grow, develop, repair, function, and thrive. This culture is so pervasive it’s even promoted by our healthcare system.

Let me ask you this, has your elimination diet or “healthy” diet solved the problem? If you’re reading this I’m guessing it hasn’t.

Here’s why. Your body runs off nutrients from foods you eat. When they are missing, imbalances develop and symptoms and health problems follow (healthy skin for example needs a lot of different nutrients that come from diet). This can be even worse in children because they are growing and developing at a quick pace and need nourishment. Diet restrictions in children also set them up for an unhealthy relationship with food in the future (fear of food, disordered eating habits and eating disorders).

Every process in the body works using nutrients, which come from foods we eat. Those nutrients are the fuel for our engines.

Your car won’t go anywhere without the right fuel… how can the body?

We are led to believe it can and this is simply not the case.

Food is not the root cause of your little one’s eczema! If you’ve removed common trigger foods and it didn’t help, and her diet is getting smaller and smaller, we’ve got to dig deeper.

We need to nourish her body and stop restricting the fuel it needs to grow, develop, repair and function so she can thrive.

We need to identify reasons she’s not getting that nourishment, there are 3 common ones:

They are not being included in her diet (elimination diets and “healthy” diets can be to blame).
Gut problems are preventing the digestion and absorption of nutrients from foods she does eat.
Chronic stress (yes little ones have it too) burns through nutrients and steals them from other processes in the body, like building and repairing healthy skin.

Together we can identify, and address root causes like these, and restore your little one’s health!