I actually was half way thru writing a long reply but it was just so hard to get all i wanted to say in words so i just deleted all of it.

Keeping it short:
Steroidal medications is really really bad in the long run- go wikipedia some of the active ingredients and look at their side effects. Good on your friend for realizing this.

Treatment that has been most effective for me- still ongoing btw (been around 3 months and big improvement in that time) is acupuncture together with chinese herbal medicine in KL at 'The Tole' run by Master Tole, try googling it.

He and his clinic appeared in the star newspaper early this in year, january or february i think (google). Saw it then but it somehow slipped my mind, only when i had a really bad breakout a few months ago did i remember about it and went for it. (kinda like a last resort thing)

Am really glad i went but there are some downsides. One is that you have to boil and drink the medicine which is really horrible- might get used to it i guess.

Some people are afraid of needles, but they don't go deep- just feels like an ant bite at the moment of insertion.

The cost of the herbal medicine might be a bit high.

He treats many kinds of diseases so the place is almost always packed so patients usually have to wait a long time.

Considering it's been working this well for me and no awful side effects i think its damn worth it in my opinion.

Oh yeah one more thing my diet with the herbal treatment is super restricted-
easier to say what i can eat than what i cannot

most types of vegetables, grains, fruits
most types of fish
some sweeteners

and that's it.

Hopefully after 3 years of this can eat normally again.

Yeah like siaoand2 said- going for a blood test is a good idea as well. Did the alcat test at pathlab where they test your blood against various foodstuf for food intolerance.

By the way its a food intolerance test, not an actual allergy test. Allergies are actually pretty rare and confused with intolerance.

Anyway that only helped me a little. Your friend might have a milder case of eczema than mine though.

Acupuncture with herbal medicine is working very well for me.

I go to 'The Tole' run by master Leong Hong Tole. He's very famous- appeared in The Star and Straits Times Singapore. Treats many kinds of diseases not just eczema.

Its at Menara Promet now called menara kh i think.

Google it



This post has been edited by ilikeweetbix: Dec 19 2011, 07:38 PM

Article in The Star.

http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?fil...9057&sec=health

That's where i found out about it. People with eczema go try it and if it works go tell other people.

f*** steroids and all their f***ed up side effects.

By antibio you mean antibiotics?

What sort of cream were you prescribed?

Cured in 2 weeks?

I don't think you know what eczema actually is.



And another poster above suggested Tacrolimus-claiming it has no side effects.

Tacrolimus has lots of side effects- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacrolimus

People keep recommending steroids and more steroids and it's really starting to piss me off.

Steroids will f*** up a person's body in so many ways, i know this because i've been there myself thanks to advice from people who don't know anything.

Google the active ingredient of the steroid you are using and check out the side effects yourself.

Also the longer a person is on steroidal medication the harder it is to get off it.

People who don't know anything really shouldn't say anything.