Title says it all, a child of mine has terribly sensitive skin. We have tried various things, mainly no fragrances, but wondering if anyone had any good outcomes from strickly natural solutions. Thanks frens!
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Wondering if he gets enough salt in his nutrition.
Like others my go-to response would be to cut grains out entirely and go carnivore, but if it's more than that, I'd say his skin irritation reflects cellular dehydration. Eczema as I understand it means skin so dry that it cracks and peels. Lotions are the instinctive reactions, but you have to be careful because some are problematic. You want the ones with saturated oils.
You can drink lots of liquids, and it courses through your circulatory system just fine, but if the liquid doesn't have enough salt (OR if the blood is overloaded with something else like sugar or citric acid) the cells cannot absorb the water and they become dehydrated, and the liquid simply goes out the other end, wasted. That's why a hospital IV has saline solution not water.
I've had eczema on-and-off for years, never a huge problem, but I recently went carnivore + heavy sea salt for different reasons, and the skin on my hands and feet immediately improved, going from fairly dry to supple and younger-feeling. Took 2-3 weeks for me to notice, but I wasn't really paying attention. If you're interested I'll give you the website of the health guy I follow, who pointed me to salt and explained why it helps.
Or you could just limit other drinks and add in a lot of Pedialyte / Gatorade / salt for a few weeks and observe.