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Eczema: 6 Steps to Improve Your Child’s Confidence
By Aradhana Pandey (Bio below) Preparing your little one for school ought to be one of the proudest moments of your life. It seems like just yesterday that you held them in your warm embrace for the first time. Today, you see them all grown up and set to face a brand new chapter in their life. Until now, your child…
Read MoreEczema Awareness Canada: How You Can Celebrate it
Each year Eczema Awareness month is celebrated in November by Canadians with the help of the Eczema Society of Canada – an outstanding organization for their efforts in eczema education and supporting patients. You can read more about Executive Director, Amanda Cresswell-Melville’s, personal journey with eczema here. It’s easy to see where her passion for helping others with eczema stems…
Read MoreEmotional Health: Coping with Eczema
By Abby Lai (Bio below) Eczema was the hardest time of my life. For those who suffer with it (or have a close friend or family member who suffers with it), you’ll probably know that eczema comes with a lot of physical and psychological baggage. When I was going through my own personal journey with…
Read MoreStarting an Eczema Support Group
In honor of eczema awareness month, please welcome our guest, Mei, as she shares her experiences with starting her own eczema support group! Dealing with eczema is stressful (read more about that here), but you’re not alone. Everyone knows someone effected with eczema, sadly it’s too common these days. There are online blogs like this…
Read MoreOctober: American National Eczema Awareness Month
October is eczema awareness month in the United States. In Canada it will be celebrated in November (more to come on that next month). To help support eczema awareness, The Eczema Company will donate $1 from every online order during the month of October to the National Eczema Association. Let’s spread as much eczema awareness…
Read MoreChicago Integrative Eczema Center Announces an Eczema Treatment Breakthrough
Honestly, I am quite beside myself over the launch of this new clinic, the Chicago Integrative Eczema Center. I met the co-founder, the amazing Dr. Peter Lio, at the National Eczema Association Patient Conference last summer, and he mentioned this clinic was in the works. So, I waited patiently for the launch and now that…
Read MoreEczema Cure: Running to the Ends of the Earth
I read about Shane’s unbelievable journey and immediately wanted to share his courageous story here in hopes of further helping him to raise awareness for a cause very near and dear to him. Please help me share his story with others in order to make his goals of eczema support and awareness a reality. Bio: …
Read MoreCoping with Food Allergies, Eczema, and Asthma – A Parent’s Guide
By Elika Kormeili (bio below) I remember as an adult telling my mom about my food allergies and her face dropped. The wheels in her head were already turning thinking about how she will adapt her recipes so that I can eat (thanks mom). I started reciting what I can and cannot eat – I paused…
Read MoreAmerican Eczema Awareness Month
October is eczema awareness month in the United States. In Canada it will be celebrated in November (more to come on that next month). So, let’s spread as much eczema awareness as possible in the US in October! But how? Here are a few ideas: Speak to your child’s school or class to educate them…
Read MoreAn Incredible Experience with National Jewish Hospital’s Atopic Dermatitis Clinic
Nancy, of Real Food, Allergy Free, and I connected via an eczema Facebook group, around the time I was starting The Eczema Company. When I learned that she was heading to National Jewish Hospital with her daughter, I was so excited for her and eager to hear first hand what her experience was like. NJH…
Read MoreJennifer Talks to Dr.B – Top Tips for Practitioners
As a mother, I have certain expectations when taking my son to see his dermatologist. The dermatologist probably has a completely different set of expectations and rightly so. They spent years in medical school. I’ve spent years being a mother. They spent years dealing with patients of all ages. I’ve spent years watching my son…
Read MoreEczema Blues: Staying Positive as a Stressed Parent
It’s my first guest blogger! Welcome to Marcie’s Mom! Hers was one of the very first eczema blogs, Eczema Blues, I came across that was targeted to parents. I particularly like her cartoons about how our life, dealing with eczema, is quite different from other parents. And she has just started a support group for…
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