Root Causes of Eczema: bacterial imbalances
Eczema and skin rashes are not just one trigger, but often a “perfect storm” of many triggers.
Today, let’s talk about bacterial overgrowths.
Bacterial overgrowths are kind of like weeds in a lawn. There are many situations that allow weed overgrowth and too many of them shift your lawn (or microbiome) from looking lush and beautiful to looking, well, weedy.
The same thing can happen as a root cause of eczema. Again, there are usually a few co-factors, like digestive inadequacies or the skin acting as an organ of elimination, but an overgrowth of “weeds” or opportunistic bacteria is a common root cause I see in practice.
Let’s take the case of Eli:
Case Study: Eli’s eczema flaresEli’s eczema had an interesting pattern. A couple of days before he got common cold symptoms, his skin would start flaring. When we saw his stool test, there was no denying his eczema was...
