The Solution - Alpha Nutrition
Alpha Nutrition
The good news for many suffers of chronic skin disorders is that complete diet revision will often improve and sometimes resolve the symptoms. You will change your whole eating and life-style and you cannot go back to old behaviors without reactivating the disease.
The three management strategies are:
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Food Holiday,
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Alpha ENF Complete, Comprehensive Diet Revision
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Supportive physical therapies
We recommend complete diet revision to people with
- Moderate to severe eczema
- Persistent or recurrent hives of more than 4 weeks duration
- All skin disorders associated with digestive disorders.
- All skin disorders associate with inflammatory arthritis
- All skin disorders associated chronic ill-defined illnesses.
- Dermatitis Herpetiformis
- Moderate to Severe Psoriasis
Complete diet revision can resolve many skin conditions.
In moderate to severe eczema and chronic hives (urticaria) multiple food factors are involved and there is no reliable test to identify them. Diet revision is both diagnostic and therapeutic. To solve a severe skin problem, consider doing diet revision using the Alpha Nutrition Program with the option of supportive medication for the first few weeks of recovery.
- The proper evaluation of the role of food as the antigen source usually requires starting with a 10 to 14 day food holiday on an elemental nutrient formula.
- If the skin triggers were in the food supply, the skin inflammation should diminish.
- Slow food reintroduction is then required to screen returning foods for skin activity.
In severe skin disease remission of the disease may be achieved by taking a 10 day food holiday on Alpha ENF. For example, Villaveces and Heiner reported remission of symptoms in six patients with severe atopic dermatitis by replacing food with an elemental nutrient formula for at least a week and then reintroducing foods to determine reactivity. Ratner et al reported similar success in 16 children and 14 adults with moderate to severe eczema. Sixty percent achieved significant remission after 3-12 days on an elemental nutrient formula. They noted that half the food challenge reactions were immediate and the other half delayed.
The Decision to do Diet Revision In Children
The decision to modify the child's diet is made when eczema is moderate to severe, especially when there are other problems suggesting food allergy. With more severe, prolonged or complicated eczema, skin tests are never adequate to determine a new diet for the child and complete diet revision must be carried out. Follow the Alpha Nutrition Program. Often, a retreat to phase 1 foods is adequate to improve the skin condition, although 2 to 3 weeks is required for healing to occur.
We have encountered children with extreme food sensitivity who do well only on a few foods and have used Alpha ENF to replace some of the missing foods and to supplement nutrient intake for several weeks to several months. Parents need to be very patient and determined to solve a severe eczema problem. The afflicted child suffers a great deal and may be irritable, hyperactive at times and emotionally unstable. Eczema sometimes marks the child with food allergy who will go on to have learning problems at school because of hyperactivity and attention deficits. We see this as a packaged deal and treat the child compassionately with careful food and environmental control. See advice for parents
How to Start the Alpha Nutrition Program
You should start the nutritional rescue project with a period of learning and preparation. You have to study the Alpha Nutrition Program, Manual, purchase and try Alpha ENF, and discuss the changes you plan to make with family and friends. We recommend 2 to 3 weeks of preparation and rehearsal for this change.
We recommend the slow track for all serious skin disorders. This means that you should plan a food holiday for at least 10 days and follow the rules in Phase 1 of the program exactly. You are trying to establish improvement quickly - at least within the first two weeks. You should not expect complete remission of symptoms but you should be convinced that there is benefit. You need to have the patience as you reintroduce foods slowly and carefully.
You should start the project with a period of preparation. You have to study the manual, purchase and try Alpha ENF, and discuss the changes you plan to make with family and friends. We recommend 2 to 3 weeks of preparation and rehearsal for this change.
For Adults, order the Skin Rescue Pack with the supplemental text on skin disorders. You will receive the program manual and a 500 Gram bottle of Alpha ENF, try it, get used to the formula and then decide if and when you are ready for a food holiday.
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rder Skin Starter PackFor Infants and Children order the Children's Starter Pack
Order Children Rescue Starter Pack