Inflammation comes in cycles, and once the cycle is broken the inflammation will subside. From a brochure by NEASE:
"We know that AD is a disease of inflamed skin. That inflammation is a result of various cells coming into the skin and causing itching, redness and swelling. Those cells come from the person's bone marrow, then they travel through the blood stream to the target tissues: the skin in AD, the nose in hay fever, the lungs in asthma. Something makes these cells over-react. They generate too much inflammation and they don't stop. Maybe that's the cause of the disease--cells that create too much damage when they turn on and they don't turn off the way they should. We don't know the reason for the defective "on/off switch." We can only try to control AD by preventing the "on" trigger. Things that turn "on" the switch are called trigger factors."
I don't entirely agree with that. Sometimes the body knows better than we do. There can be good reasons for inflammation; and, instead of suppressing it, we need to deal with the underlying cause which may be a bacterial infection. I understand the immune system has memory, and glyconutrients are helpful with that.
See the Antibiotic and Fungus web pages for some insight.
The drug Protopic (tacrolimus) is an immunosuppressant. Also, if you have had problems with Protopic and Elidel with regards to cancer, see: Larry M. Roth, PA
Here's a Harvard article entitled, "What you eat can fuel or cool inflammation, a key driver of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions."
See, also, The Inflammation Free Diet Plan.
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