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The diagnosis has come back and you have adult eczema. You sit down with your doctor, and he lays out your treatment options. He says you need antihistamines and cortisone cream for the itching. He reaches for his prescription pad and begins writing out prescriptions for various medicines he assures you that you need to control your eczema.

Don’t fill that prescription! You don’t need drugs to control your eczema, no matter what that doctor tells you. There are many, many safe, non-drug alternatives that your doctor won’t tell you about – mainly because he probably doesn’t know about them himself, or if he does he doesn’t care.

Why would you want to use cortisone, a steroid, to treat your eczema symptoms when there are so many natural eczema remedies available? True, relief from your itching will be virtually immediately, but what price are you willing to pay for that relief? If you use steroids for any length of time, you could be opening yourself up to a whole bag full of nasty side effects. Thinning skin, bleached skin, glaucoma, hypertension, and weight gain, just to name a few. Oh, and don’t forget contact dermatitis. Isn’t that ironic? Use something to clear up a skin problem, and it gives you another skin problem.

Cortisone is a drug, and as with any drug, over time your body will build up a tolerance for it, so it will become less and less effective. To maintain any effectiveness, you will have to change dosages and types. This drug works by suppressing your immune system, opening your body up for potential infections you otherwise wouldn’t have to worry about. So, your skin stops itching, but it could become infected. Which is worse?