As you may have seen on our Facebook post, my daughter has had a TERRIBLE flare up on her ankles and feet that I couldn’t figure out! Her eczema was going crazy and I was going insane! Grrr… Normally her eczema is triggered by food so I’ve been rehearsing her rolodex of food, hoping she hasn’t become allergic to one of her staple items.
Flash back a few days prior, I had gotten into a rut with her lunch and wanted to spice it up some. My little little deserves something new, something different. So I sent daddy on a mission before school. We were running late and lunch items were low, so I gave him a short list of things he could purchase on the way to school: veggie straws, fruit cup, fruit pack, fruit, or something without her allergens.
Flash forward! I picked her up from school and she was fine. Turns out he bought a fruit cup. It didn’t even cross my mind that she was allergic because she’s eaten fruit cups in the past but it was a longggg time ago. After 3 days of eating one fruit cup a day, I picked her up from school and she was scratching her belly which is HIGHLY unusual for her. I asked what snacks she had at school, everything checked out. Played back dinner for the past couple of nights and everything checked out. It wasn’t until I looked at the empty box of mandarin oranges that she had been LOVING! and quickly realized that was it. We rarely have an orange in the house, so it didn’t even click that maybe she would have a reaction, especially because it wasn’t an immediate one.
Citrus and/or acidity has made my little girl’s eczema fly through the roof! We’re back to the basics:
- 15 minute baths
- Heavy emollients
- Covered fingers and toes
- Practicing – Things to do when itchy
- NO MORE ORANGES
We’re on the move towards recovery and hopefully we can get her skin and itching under control without steroids. Also a chance to see how our Calendula Cream works under pressure.