Lesser-Known Causes of Childhood Eczema—and What You Can Do
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.6 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Everyone has dry skin every once in a while, but if it's constantly dry, itchy, red, and sore, eczema may be the culprit. Dr. Stephanie Davis is no stranger to eczema — she battled it herself and now empowers children to do the same. Listen in as she discusses how the everyday air we breathe and the food we consume impacts eczema and what natural solutions provide relief.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:31.0 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat |
| 0:36.4 | any disease. Please do not apply any of this |
| 0:39.2 | information without first speaking with your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke |
| 0:45.5 | with Dr. Stephanie Davis on the topic of eczema and children, but this really does broaden out |
| 0:51.1 | and apply to adults also. However, we wanted to make the central |
| 0:54.6 | theme and focus, eczema and children. One of the things that comes up in this conversation |
| 1:00.3 | that we have not discussed in a while that I feel important to resurface is the impact that |
| 1:05.8 | chemicals have on your skin, on your brain, on your GI, and how pervasive they are in products that we |
| 1:15.1 | use for personal care, for cleaning supplies. And so this was a good opportunity to go through |
| 1:23.2 | toxins as pertains to home care and I guess self-care products and also the importance of |
| 1:32.3 | environmental toxins. We additionally tie in gut health and stress and especially stress for |
| 1:40.8 | while mom is pregnant and just had what I found to be a very clinically applicable |
| 1:46.9 | and useful conversation on all these factors, chemicals, toxins, gut health, stress, |
| 1:56.1 | predominantly positioned around eczema. But remember that eczema is in a way a proxy for immune system |
| 2:02.5 | health. So there really is broad applicability. This is one of the things, of course, I love |
| 2:06.8 | about integrative and functional medicine. We intervene upstream. So one approach, |
| 2:12.7 | more of a perhaps reductionistic medical, conventional medical approach might be to use a cream for the |
| 2:20.0 | eczema, and that will help with the eczema. However, if we treat the source of the problem upstream, |
| 2:28.5 | then we may see eczema improve, plus, as we discussed in this podcast, behavioral issues in the child also improve |
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