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Parent maintained eczema?

October 13th, 2010
Maintaining eczema is simple – just keep doing what you’ve been doing while the disease flourished.  If you are a parent of a child with eczema you know exactly what that entails.  You may have been doing it for years, which makes you quite an expert.  You may be doing what your parents did while you suffered years of childhood eczema, creating a generational validity in maintaining eczema.
My work entails giving people choices, so would you agree that providing yet another way for beleaguered and frustrated parents to beat themselves up is best avoided?  Then why did I open with such a challenging paragraph?  To provide choices.  They exist and you might ask who made them so hard to find?
We’ve shown how to overcome eczema in 14 days and the credibility of that excellent result remains unchallenged.  Yet some of the young mothers we’re working with find all sorts of reasons to avoid following the same simple steps to help their children escape eczema. My question is why?  Some readers will feel blame has to be apportioned here and I agree – put all the blame on ME as I’ve so far failed to help those mothers help their children.  There is definitely something I haven’t done to free those children, and that weighs very heavy.  Obviously I don’t need to shoulder this burden and putting myself in the firing line is deliberate.  There are only a few mothers in this category and the reason I choose to persist is that they are all fantastic loving mothers who genuinely want to free their children.  But they remain in a stuck state – something is preventing them from taking the available choices.
Ironically that makes the task of defeating eczema easier.  Will you agree that we’ve moved on from the complexity of immunology blended with chemistry that so often prevents progress with eczema?  In the cases I have in mind while writing this blog, those aspects have been overcome, and the mothers know that.  So all that remains is to be done is have these loving mothers see their choices.  But isn’t that just too simple?  They know their choices and find themselves unable to reach for them; an interesting situation as taking the choices is much easier than doing what they now know is maintaining the eczema in their children.
That reluctance to take the available choices is keeping the children trapped in eczema.  Why would they choose to do that?  Is it a form of secondary gain where the mother unconsciously benefits from caring for the disease?  Do they recall their dependence on a wonderful mother who went through the same struggle for years?  In one of the young mothers we’re helping that seems to be the case.  She knows her happiness will grow once she has taken the action, but hasn’t broken from tradition yet.  So what is blatantly missing is this mother’s choice of having her child escape eczema.
These are ongoing live challenges and in reading this blog you’ve shown an interest in helping to achieve the goals.  Some people who advocate goal setting tell you not to worry about HOW the goal will be reached.  I prefer those three letters to read WHO and ask which of the people reading this blog will provide the missing clue.  Is it you?
Dr Harley Farmer CEO of NewGenn harley.farmer@newgenn.co.uk
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Eczema and aqueous cream

October 6th, 2010
The devil within eczema takes many forms, and aqueous cream is one of the more insidious.  It has people’s confidence, it’s been used for generations and many people reach for it the moment they have dry skin.  After all, it’s the old-fashioned, trusted, moisturiser.
Now it’s being exposed as a main factor in eczema lasting so long in some victims.  But why?  It might help to take a step back and look at your skin, or the skin of the person you would love to free from eczema.
Skin is designed to let water pass OUT, all day, every day, 24/7.  There is plenty of water in every living person and some of that water is INTENDED to evaporate via the skin.  There are times when the skin feels dry and action is warranted, and a little knowledge about skin provides you with choices.  You could automatically reach for a branded cosmetic moisturiser, or perhaps the old favourite of aqueous cream if you prefer to avoid big brand names.  For 90% of the population either choice will be fine.  Here we are interested in the 10% who are trapped in eczema – all 6 million of them in Britain alone.  Why might those choices be inappropriate?
Water is meant to PASS THROUGH the skin, not sit blocked in it.  So any product that ‘layered on’ a barrier may be doing the wrong thing.  Remember, there is plenty of water under that area of dry skin so why not have that water pass through?  Blocking it part-way might seem reasonable if you want the dry area to become moisturised, and if eczema wasn’t such a huge concern that logic might hold.  But with 6 million Britons affected by eczema, would you agree that something very unnatural is going on?
The main topic of this blog is aqueous cream, the nice old-fashioned product so many parents use on their children.  Because it’s such a well established product it has earned a position of trust, yet it is being abused! Aqueous cream was designed to be a replacement for soap so it was intended to be WASHED OFF.  Yet we now apply it and leave it on.  If the 90% of people who don’t have eczema did that once or twice, very few would have problems.
Now consider someone with eczema where the skin is cracked.  What would you expect if a harmful chemical found its way into those cracks?  Is it plausible that the skin would react to that strange chemical INSIDE the skin?  And if the skin did react, would it show up as redness and itchiness?  Does that sound like eczema to you?  If so, read this blog again and note that aqueous cream was never intended to be left on INTACT normal skin, and was CERTAINLY NOT designed to be put on broken skin where it can enter the cracks and cause irritation.
What would happen if eczema victims stopped using aqueous cream?  Might a chronic irritant INSIDE the skin be gone?  Could it be that the skin then didn’t need to bring extra blood to the damaged spot so the redness was reduced?  Is it even possible that moisture can again begin passing through the skin so the body does its own moisturising?
I’ll end with a challenging question for parents of young children with eczema.  Did you have prolonged eczema when your parents applied aqueous cream?  Blogs didn’t exist then so your parents might not have known what’s written here.  But you do know it, and that increases your choices.  More choices is a good thing, but do you want more eczema?
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Newest EXeczema booklet.

September 29th, 2010
“EXeczema.  ‘Green & Clean’ revolution accidentally brings hope to many millions worldwide” is the newest work in the EXeczema series, now available from www.newgenn.co.uk It’s an easy-to-read booklet by Dr Harley Farmer, in which I invoke my right as a philosopher to ask questions!
The intention is that readers will use those questions to generate new ones more relevant to themselves.  It’s nice describing how others have found freedom from eczema but everyone’s an individual with differences.  As the number of EXeczema success stories continues to grow and more people free themselves, their loved ones and friends from eczema, we can look for common elements.
For now, I can report that the most dramatic success comes from those who stop applying creams and emollients when they start using EXeczema products to wash their skin.  Those of us who’ve had bad and chronic eczema know the eczema continues if you JUST stop using the creams and emollients, so these new products must be having a pivotal role in the disappearance of those horrible red areas of skin.  However it’s far too early to say precisely how those products create this happy event.
It’s a fair guess that some of the creams and emollients somehow support the eczema and keep it going in certain people.  Wouldn’t it be interesting to know which sub-group is affected in that way?  Just how many victims are trapped in the emollient dependency cycle when it’s possible all they need to do is stop the emollients and try washing themselves in these new ‘green and clean’ skincare products?  After all, if they are a person who isn’t going to benefit they’ll know in a couple of weeks and can return to their emollients.  Now the exciting question.  What if they are in the ever increasing group who DO benefit?  Are they likely to find out by just wondering while still piling on the emollients?  Or do they need to take action?  Will they ever know if they don’t try the EXeczema skin cleansing products?
That is the type of debate initiated in the newest EXeczema booklet – a series of questions to increase the choices of those who want to move on from eczema.  Perhaps the distinction is really between those who BELIEVE they can move on and those who don’t.  The fundamental choice is to continue with eczema or try the products.  I can’t be sure everyone who tries will soon be free of eczema.  But would you agree that those who don’t try will stay where they with every assurance that their eczema will continue?  Others have tried and changed their lives, often in 14 days.  But it won’t happen if they just shrink back into the comfort of their limiting beliefs.  Freedom can only arise AFTER they take action and try the products.  A simple choice – eczema or give it a go!
The EXeczema booklets help increase choices.  They are available to be placed in playgroups, schools, doctors’ practices, and any site where those with interests in eczema gather.
Can you think of such a place?  If so, take action and contact me via the blog.  You’re very welcome.
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Eczema debate

September 13th, 2010
It seems eczema is a very sensitive topic, in more ways than one.  In my last blog on this site I mentioned classifying those who had been released from the disease as coincidences.  That seems to have polarised a debate between those who believe eczema can’t be cured and insist we’re looking at coincidences, whereas those who profess an open mind ask why it can’t represent a true cure?  Having stimulated this polarisation it seems wise to foster an open debate, one in which we can all ask questions.  Hopefully those who suffer the chronic pain, misery and embarrassment of eczema are allowed to decide whether they want to be freed.  Only then need they worry about which word to choose.
After all, they are the ones most involved.  I personally left their group thirty years ago when I learned how to eliminate my own eczema and I now recall how many experts told me it was only a matter of time before it came back.  They were adamant that eczema can’t be cured and to be fair to them they were right – they couldn’t cure it so their limiting beliefs were perfectly justified.  Did I cure it?  Who knows?  It hasn’t come back for thirty years so I’m tempted to say it was a cure.  Now ‘they’ can counter my view by saying it was going anyway so it’s a coincidence and the thirty years is irrelevant.
One thing I can say for sure is that the people who insisted my freedom from eczema was pure coincidence had not themselves ever had eczema.  I’m not sure why they take the ‘can’t be cured’ line and insist on the word coincidence.  Leaving people who have broken free of a disease hanging on tender hooks expecting it to come back is tantamount to chronic torture.  Perhaps it is due to come back, but will that be a recurrence or the beginning of new eczema?  As far as I’m aware none of us honestly know what starts the eczema in any particular individual so how do we know whether a person has recurrences of the old or a completely new case each time?
Some might argue that is being purely pedantic, playing with words.  That is their privilege and I offer a choice.  If there was the choice of having someone feel free, or having that person living under the constant threat of never having been freed, which is the more constructive?  I’d opt for the former.  Should red skin patches appear again in those who believed they were free, at least they have felt free for a while.  If they are in a supportive group it will be a much easier matter of determining what brought on the new episode, making it much easier to end it.
How many of you agree?

Is EXeczema a coincidence?

September 8th, 2010
My previous blogs on this site referred to eczema and raised the question of whether NewGenn products were alleviating the condition in a particular sub-group? A number of people have contacted me via email rather than commenting on the blog which seems to indicate how sensitive eczema has become as a topic.
As a PhD scientist I fully appreciate that no clinical trials have been conducted with the products mentioned and I suggest that is how it should stay until a lot more people report their eczema has gone. Even then it will be important to leave a useful amount of time to determine whether they return to using their old products and the disease comes back.
So for an unspecified time this blog series will simply spread the belief of those who’ve taken specific action and seen the red skin patches lose that colour in a couple of weeks. Does that constitute a cure? Who knows – at present all that can honestly be said is that the patches aren’t red anymore. The debate, if there is one, will probably centre on whether the effect was purely coincidence. As one who values science and the role it can play in disease control, I’d be happy to leave these individuals as ‘coincidences’ for a while yet.
Six million Britons are said to suffer from eczema and most have been convinced the disease can’t be cured. That could easily generate mental boundaries leading to limiting beliefs. To have reported on a sub-set of the population that is responding very quickly to an existing product range appears to have challenged some established paradigms.
Perhaps it’s a good time to recall something a wise professor once taught me: “In medicine there is art and science, and the art lay in knowing when NOT to use the science.” I’ve carried that gem of wisdom for decades and seem to be recounting it more often in recent times. However it raises a question.
How could science get in the way of alleviating eczema? I’d value your views.
I know people are already following this new series of blogs on EXeczema. All comments received which do not relate to the advancement of eczema control are being removed as this is intended to be a positive forum in which people can be guided to freedom from eczema. I have no interest in advancing the business of those who, as has been the case so far, have automatic processes which advertise games and money making schemes. This is not a marketing exercise to get my name at the top of Google as it’s been there for years – this is a forum where 6 million British eczema sufferers may find a way out of their prolonged misery. So to those with auto-trackers I say don’t bother and to those with eczema I welcome your comments and suggestions.

EXeczema for Teenagers

September 1st, 2010
There has been an interesting response to my previous blog on eczema, although it’s intriguing how it has been via private networks rather than to the blog itself. It seems the new word EXeczema has excited the minds of those people who look for solutions rather than foster barriers.
When I had eczema as a young man I lived through the pain, embarrassment and social stigma that came as part of the package. For me it was predominantly on my face and you simply can’t hide your face. Luckily my training provided a clue which I developed to find a way out. I freed myself from eczema and have remained free for thirty years.
Teenagers have a lot going on in their lives and to have eczema as well simply adds to their burdens. Recently I had the opportunity to begin addressing teenager eczema with very pleasing results. A 15 year old girl asked to do a short work experience project so I suggested she write a small book on eczema from the teenager’s viewpoint.
‘EXeczema for Teenagers’ by Skye Van-Witten was the result – ISBN 9780956214423. Those with an interest in teenage eczema can gain an amazing insight into the pain and psychology of those who are trapped in the eczema cycle, and at the same time sense the incredible relief and excitement of gaining release and freedom. The book is written by a teenager for teenagers, yet readers of more advanced years have reported a humbling insight into what is happening in the mind of those involved, either trapped or freed.
Skye has beautifully highlighted how people like to help each other. Thousands of teenagers are among the 6 million Britons with eczema, and it makes sense to work directly with those affected. Interestingly Skye chose to also include those who DON’T have the disease, those who want to help their friends and siblings who do suffer. She has let them know of the tremendous rewards available when you help free someone. As she writes “What reward I hear you ask?” and “From my experience of speaking to Alex, emotions certainly got hold of me. When Alex spoke of his eczema and said it has changed his life, his happiness shone through. He mentioned that his confidence has grown as the eczema has disappeared.” Further on she adds “Just like Alex can feel freedom is something coming towards him, I too can feel that reward is something I will feel after I have accomplished sharing this positive view with as many as I possibly can.”
Are you a teenager seeking freedom from eczema? Or do you know a teenage eczema victim?

Eczema beaten by NewGenn

August 12th, 2010
This being my first blog on www.newgenn.co.uk , an introduction might help.  I’m Dr Harley Farmer, a novelist, author of specialist articles, inventor, persistent optimist on global matters and one who succeeds by dissecting complex problems until simple answers emerge.  In effect, I break disease cycles.
Eczema is the latest one being beaten.  Young mothers began thanking us for freeing their children from eczema.  That disease wasn’t even on my mind when creating NewGenn’s ecological cleansing products.  Admittedly we had designed them to fix the skin problems on nurses’ hands so solving another skin condition was plausible, albeit accidental.  The range of products includes skin cleanser for the shower or bath, hand wash, wet wipes, surface spray and floor cleanser.  For most people they were just ecological, very safe and left a lovely silky feeling on skin.  There is NO CREAM in the range, an important feature that will be discussed in subsequent blogs.
Recently adults who’d had serious eczema all their lives have passed quickly through the phases of hope and confidence to freedom, all in a matter of weeks.  There are 6 million eczema victims in Britain so I wonder which sub-set is responding and becoming free?  If you have the condition, or know someone who has, and are now wondering, please contact me.  At this early stage I can’t and won’t say we’re offering a cure.  It might just be coincidence – NewGenn arrived and the eczema left several weeks later.  The option now for those with eczema is to remain an eczema victim or join this growing group who are now free and helping others to escape.
If you want to try, I suggest you should continue to use all your medications, including steroid creams and emollients.  Eczema can be complicated so to gain a better understanding, only make one change, that of using NewGenn throughout the house and particularly on the skin.  As time progresses and more medically qualified people become involved, this recommendation may change.  But for now, play safe and only make the one change of trying NewGenn.
In subsequent www.newgenn.co.uk blogs I hope to feature some of those who’ve recently freed themselves and gained a massive increase in confidence.  Would you or someone you love like to be included?