SolveEczema.org is about helping families problem solve and eliminate their children's eczema, without drugs or treatment of any kind.

Problem

Pediatric eczema and allergies are a rising global epidemic. In some parts of the world, every 3rd or 4th child suffers from this problem, often with attendant asthma. Many researchers acknowledge the problem is primarily environmental, yet research efforts focus on treatment. For over seven years, SolveEczema.org has been helping parents from all over the world to end their children's eczema and allergies, without medications or treatment at all; if parents are given the information to understand the environmental cause, they can give their children normal lives simply by eliminating the cause from their home environment. The greatest barrier is demonstrating this through medical research and publication, in order to change the paradigm of thinking about allergies and eczema. Parents in rural and third-world countries can protect their families without dependence on interventions.

Solution

The SolveEczema.org solution gets to the cause of skin barrier disruption at the root of eczema, shows parents how to identify and understand it to give their children normal skin and lives without treatment. The problem comes down to how modern detergents - ubiquitous in homes across the world today in cleaning and personal care - impact the skin barrier and increase membrane permeability and allergic sensitization. Eliminating this influence is not as simple as changing cleaning products. The SolveEczema solution gives families the detailed information to identify how they may be affected and what they can do to solve the problem. A medical study is needed to put the information in the hands of medical practitioners.

Example

I receive email from families all over the world whose children suffer immensely. Many of these children haven't slept a single night through in their lives from the itching, or have been in the hospital because of infections, or ostracized because of their broken, oozing skin. I met a little boy recently whose mom used the site to solve his eczema when he was about 18 months old. He's now 7. Eczema doesn't usually scar, but this boy's eczema had been so bad, he has a scarred area along the side of his face and neck. I realized, if his mom hadn't stumbled across my website one late night, this child would have been disfigured for the rest of his life. Instead, he's a beautiful, bright, sweet child with normal skin. For a detailed example of how the solution made a difference for another family, see http://www.sammysskin.blogspot.com Everyone thinks eczema is something wrong about the children. Imagine what that does to a child, for the family to believe the child is weak or "defective". This problem has a genetic component, but it is fundamentally an environmental one, and unnecessary for most of these children to ever suffer. This solution allows these kids to lead normal lives and see themselves as healthy. Enlightening and demonstrating this would have a profound global impact. Demonstrating this solution with eczema would also highlight the benefits of the problem-solving approach used to come to this solution, potentially leading to further simple solutions for other diseases currently deemed intractable.

Marketplace

I only wish there were competitors to solve the problem. There are many expensive treatments that fall short. I read the medical literature and see a lot of sincere effort and billions spent on research. I see study after study of eczema quality of life, quality of life in infants, adults, families, proposed measurement instruments for measuring quality of life, comparing measurement instruments, measurement instruments for eczema severity and prevalence, comparing and reviewing measurement instruments for severity and prevalence, etc. But I don't see empirical problem-solving. The biggest challenge is old myths and beliefs about what causes eczema and allergy. It's difficult for anyone to accept that the answer is simple (although not obvious). I'm not associated with an academic institution, so I do have to publish to be taken as a peer.