Check your diet and ensure that you’re able to ditch unhealthy food that irritates your cutis. To correct cutis concerns, it is important that the foods that can aggravate the irritation must be removed. This will ensure that you won’t have problems with unhealthy foods that can cause allergies and irritations.
By choosing to eat the right food that your body needs, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that you nourish your body with the nutrients it needs. By eating right, you’ll have a better relationship with your body, and you’ll have a glowing cutis that you’ll love.
Food allergens
1. Milk, eggs, soya, and peanuts
Moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis can be caused by food allergies. After a diagnosis of food-triggered atopic dermatitis, patients are typically instructed to begin eliminating specific or multiple foods that cause or exacerbate it. However, after long periods of elimination diets, the foods that were previously prohibited can result in the development of immediate type reactions otherwise known as type I hypersensitivity (2), type I IgE-mediated food reactions, or allergy (3) in children. This allergy reaction has been called “immediate” hypersensitivity due to its rapid response to the allergen, which may occur within 30 minutes of the encounter. (3) Allergies occur to some individual because their body react and produce immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies to certain common antigens in the environment. (3) This results in mast cell degranulation and release of histamine and other inflammatory mediators, (2) and could be manifested through, itching, swelling, breathing difficulties, and even shock or death. (3) Some of the immediate type reactions that are manifested cutaneously are eczema, and hives. (3). Soluble proteins are the usual antigens for immediate type response. (3)
The development of immediate food reactions among children who had previously avoided foods that trigger atopic dermatitis had been investigated in an American large-scale study. To do this the researchers retrospectively reviewed the records between January 1, 2003, through June 30, 2010, of 298 children patients from the outpatient allergy-immunology of Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Findings of the study demonstrated that complete avoidance may not be an advisable strategy for managing children’s food-triggered atopic dermatitis. Strict elimination diet methods may cause an increased risk of developing immediate type reaction in children and result in decreased oral tolerance when re-introducing a food that had been eliminated. Results of the research showed that after initiation of an elimination diet, 19% of children patients with food-triggered atopic dermatitis and no previous history of immediate reactions, developed new immediate food type 1 reactions. To prevent this, including minimal amounts of triggering food that is tolerable is more helpful. (1) Milk, egg, and soy were the aggravating foods for eczema flares. Cow’s milk and egg are also the trigger foods for atopic dermatitis. However, it has been observed in the follow-up records, that milk, egg, and peanut are the most common foods that cause immediate-type reactions. (1)
2. high and low level glycaemic foods: fast food, burgers, seafood, margarine, butter, and pasta
The association of atopic dermatitis, consumption of 16 food types, and glycaemic index food level was investigated in a 2023 Asian epidemiological analysis. Participants of the study were 11,494 Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese atopic dermatitis patients who were selected from Singapore and Malaysian universities. They were asked about their 12-month average consumption of 16 different types of foods which are meat (e.g., beef, lamb, chicken, pork), seafood and fish, margarine, butter, eggs, pasta, fruits, vegetables (green and roots), pulses (peas, beans, lentils), nuts, milk, yogurt or probiotic drinks, burgers and fast food, cereals and bread, rice, and potatoes. To determine the association, skin prick test was conducted and participants were asked to answer allergy questionnaires. Results yielded that little intake of glycaemic index foods is crucial in reducing atopic dermatitis development. While people who frequently take high glycaemic index foods and high energy-dense foods especially burgers or fast food are almost twice more likely to develop moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis compared to those who don’t. In addition, despite that seafood, margarine, butter, and pasta have low glycaemic index values, frequent consumption of these foods can increase the odds of atopic dermatitis. Meanwhile, frequent intake of fruits, vegetables, and pulses reduce the chances of developing atopic dermatitis. Moreover, it has been found that eating vegetables from once or twice per week to most or all days could have a stronger protective factor than fruits and pulses. (4)
Ps. Now, that the diet has been corrected, let’s also talk about reaching out to your loved ones in need, to ensure that they are given the right care they deserve.
Can you now please provide the answer to this question:
Can you come to your loved ones home and recommend certain natural remedies even if their diet is ztrictly monitored?
Let us know if you need us to explain this further to help you understand this topic.
References:
- (1) Chang, A., Robison, R., Cai, M., & Singh, A. M. (2016). Natural History of Food-Triggered Atopic Dermatitis and Development of Immediate Reactions in Children. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 4(2), 229–36.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2015.08.006
- (2) Abbas, M., Moussa, M., & Akel, H. (2023). Type I Hypersensitivity Reaction. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing.
- (3) Mak T.W, Saunders M.E. Allergy and Hypersensitivity. 2006. The Immune Response.
- (4) Lima J. J., Lima Y.Y. E., Ng J.Y., Malipeddia P., Ng Y.T., Teo W.Y., Wonga Q. Y. A., Mattaa S. A., Sio Y.Y., Wong Y.R. Teh K. F., Shah S. M. R., Reginald K., Saya Y., Liu M.H., Chew F.T. Burgers, Fast Foods, and Increased Associated Risk for Atopic Dermatitis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Dietary Habits among Young Chinese Adults in Singapore/Malaysia. 2023. Dermatology. doi: 10.1159/000533942
📝 December 1, 2023. Updated
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