Just thought I would provide a bit of first hand knowledge regarding how ignorant licensed healthcare professionals can be about, well, health.
For about the first 18-24 months of my 5-year-old son’s life, he had patches of dry, red skin on his face…“baby eczema” as it is commonly called. Being new parents, we obviously wanted to get it treated as quickly as possible, so we talked to our pediatrician (who is a very nice woman) and she prescribed a topical steroidal cream, which is a very common treatment as it turns out.
I wasn’t really comfortable with applying a steroid cream to my son’s mug. After all, this was a topical treatment, not necessarily something that would actually heal the problem.
At the time, my wife worked with a guy that was big into herbal supplements. His daughter had the same problem so he started giving her a little flax oil in her milk/juice and it cleared the shit right up.
We started putting a little flax oil in our son’s drinks and it cleared his skin up beautifully.
I remember discussing this with our pediatrician and she acted surprised. She actually said she had never heard of flaxseed oil before. While my son’s eczema hasn’t been a problem since then, we still give him some flaxseed oil everyday. We also give it to my 2-year-old daughter who has never had any eczema.
Today I went to a Shoppers Drug mart and asked for flax seed oil and they didn’t know what i was talking about…and then i asked for fiber tablets and the lady gave me a weird look and was like “What do you need that for?” I said it was for someone and she was all weird and shit…
[quote]gottatrain wrote:
Just thought I would provide a bit of first hand knowledge regarding how ignorant licensed healthcare professionals can be about, well, health.
For about the first 18-24 months of my 5-year-old son’s life, he had patches of dry, red skin on his face…“baby eczema” as it is commonly called. Being new parents, we obviously wanted to get it treated as quickly as possible, so we talked to our pediatrician (who is a very nice woman) and she prescribed a topical steroidal cream, which is a very common treatment as it turns out.
I wasn’t really comfortable with applying a steroid cream to my son’s mug. After all, this was a topical treatment, not necessarily something that would actually heal the problem.
At the time, my wife worked with a guy that was big into herbal supplements. His daughter had the same problem so he started giving her a little flax oil in her milk/juice and it cleared the shit right up.
We started putting a little flax oil in our son’s drinks and it cleared his skin up beautifully.
I remember discussing this with our pediatrician and she acted surprised. She actually said she had never heard of flaxseed oil before. While my son’s eczema hasn’t been a problem since then, we still give him some flaxseed oil everyday. We also give it to my 2-year-old daughter who has never had any eczema. [/quote]
Doctor’s are ignorant.
There is some…controversial data…linking flax to increased incidence prostate cancer. Not sure I totally believe it, and I do take flax on and off…but perhaps for a 5 year old fish oil would be safer if he tolerates it (some people get the runs from fish oil).
Doctors are not taught “herbal supplements” in medical school. I believe there may be some benefit to acupuncture, but I don’t know jack shit about the procedure beyond minor knowledge. Does that make me ignorant in general? Flax seed oil isn’t exactly going to cure all instances of “eczema” so I am not sure what the point of this post was. Are you saying this is the new cure for all cases of this? Of course it isn’t.
I do have questions…was the topical cream used at all?
I have some mild patches of eczema and have used a cream called elocon whenever it (the eczema) comes out.
I’ve been taking 2-3 tablespoons of Udo’s flax oil for a while now, and I still get the eczema, mainly with stress and dry weather.
I learned a lot about the type of steroid that was in it when I asked a question about the possibility of getting a false possitive on a drug test on another site I post on.
Here’s the very thorough reply I got:
"while Elocon is classified as a “steroid” it is not chemically related to anabolic steroids. It’s a synthetic corticosteroid. Corticosteroids mimic hormones produced in the adrenal cortex: mineralocorticoid (aldosterone) or glucocorticoid (cortisol). They’re used in the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. They’re basically catabolic, rather than anabolic (sorry!).
Corticosteroids are also restricted substances for athletes, since they can be used to mask injuries and also can enhance performance in endurance events by keeping blood glucose elevated, stimulating lipolysis and easing stress on joints; but exemptions are made for topicals.
In any event, the tests for anabolic steroids vs. corticosteroids are different, and your use of a poorly absorbed corticosteroid compound, is extremely unlikely to generate a false positive result, in the extremely unlikely situation of a drug test for the presence of anabolic steroids"