Re: eczema on a baby

Dear John,

At this early age, the baby's digestive system is not built to digest anything but human breast milk. It functions very differently than in a child that is teething and ready to eat solid foods. In fact, the morphine compounds in the breast milk slow down the digestive process so much so that almost everything the milk can offer is made use of. When other foods are introduced as well at this early stage in the baby's development, those foods that require faster digestion in order to avoid fermentation expereince a far too long transit time. Naturally, the starches in the rice attract fermenting bacteria and that produce toxins while doing their job. These toxins enter the blood and lymph and pass through the skin. The body''s eliminative organs have not been trained or developed to handle stuff like that as this would normally never happen if breast milk were given as the sole food, and so the skin has to take care of it. This results in eczema.
It is better to not to listen to people who put pressure on you out of fear, worry or misleading information they picked up somewhere and trust that nature knows best. These rice cereals are also notorious for causing fungal problems and you are better to stay away from them.
Make sure to avoid giving the baby other foods when still breast-feeding, for this only leads to digestive problesm. Baby's should be slim and lean, not bulky and bloated (as they would become with cows milk, for example). The protein they need to grow and triple size within the first 16 months comes mostly from the air molecules nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen, not from foods.

One of the best things to put on the skin is aloe vera gel (pure). Baby's are resilient, and he will get over this soon.
Andreas