Quote Originally Posted by crafty View Post
...I just dont understand why would the doctor not give them better instructions to help their child but then again maybe I am not getting all the info. from the parents.....
Sadly like every field there are Dr at the bottom and top of their field, Dr who are passionate about their work and Dr who are burnt out and not giving things their 'all' so to speak ... sadly based on my experience with Health Care, at least in Ontario, it would not surprise me in the least if their Dr told them having skin like this was 'normal' and not be concerned in the least about WHY it is like that (aka an allergy to something) and address that but rather just treat the SYMPTOM verses the CAUSE cause this is the current 'doctrine' in Canada ... why CURE the skin rash when you can make hordes of money in topical creams treating the 'symptom'.

Sorry for the rant - as someone whose suffered with skin issues since childhood with no one able to explain to my WHY and just keep pushing more and more DRUGS at me it frustrates me that when I was wee no one thought to look at my DIET as a root cause .... I ended up as an adult finding out I have Celiac and only because I kept PUSHING to find out why I had the issues I did ... if this were MY child I would want to know WHY and would be taking the diet back to basics and seeing what 'helped or made it worse' and than avoiding those issues. Seriously if the 'outside skin' is being affected like this by something just imagine what is happening on the INSIDE of the body and the stress being created there????