Eczema is now a disease of choice

Eczema is now a disease of choice: manage it or eliminate it.   When you manage eczema you maintain eczema.  When you eliminate eczema it’s gone.

The skin will fix itself in a couple of weeks if you allow it to.  That’s the principal in the choice to eliminate eczema – just stop causing it.  However, if you damage the eczema patches with treatments used to manage eczema, the skin can’t fix itself. 

My aim is to teach you how those treatments create and maintain eczema so you learn how to avoid falling back into the eczema cycle.

An accidental finding led to this exciting advance.  I had parents ringing me thanking me for curing their child’s eczema.  That was a surprise as we didn’t do eczema; we were doing hygiene   I have a PhD in disease control and knew our hygiene products on www.newgenn.co.uk simply would not cure eczema.  Yet the eczema was disappearing, so what was going on? 

Put very simply, our mild products did not damage the skin so the skin was able to fix itself. 

Obviously I could have hidden that fact and made a fortune selling those products as a wondrous cure for eczema.  That would have made me a lot of money and perhaps some friends.  I preferred the reverse: a lot of friends and perhaps some money.  My business colleagues said I was a fool.  They said take the money while you can. 

I saw a much bigger picture; a global opportunity to help millions of people.  Very few people ever have such a chance and I intended to maximise mine. 

The information in these blogs is free of charge, as are the vital clues provided in the videos on www.newgenn.co.uk.  If you want to eliminate eczema in 14 days, everything you need is available here completely free.  You pay nothing.  So how can I finance my bigger picture?

My many new friends can see I’m genuinely putting people before profit.  They know if they join me, they will be doing the same.  That makes them feel really good.  When they spread the positive word and free someone from eczema, they feel even better.  If it was a child they freed, the feeling they gain becomes so fantastic it’s hard to describe.

My bigger picture is fuelled by that intense inner feeling.  Those who want to help do so because they want to.  Some buy my books and information products, yet they don’t need to.  Others buy them as gifts for people they want to release from eczema.  An ever growing number buy our hygiene products and use them for routine daily skincare.  In fact it’s now common for them to buy our complete hygiene range for cleaning their homes.  They were buying things anyway, so in choosing ours they support the global EXeczema campaign.  That makes them feel good.

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Psychology

Psychology is the last of the 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® blogs.  I left it till last as it’s the one which generates the most barriers with people.  That’s interesting as it’s the one they can best use to escape eczema.

The biggest barrier is the almost universally held belief that eczema can’t be cured.  That’s reasonable when you consider the efforts to defeat it over recent decades which resulted in the incidence going up.  It’s therefore correct to say eczema can’t be cured; if we keep doing what has been done for decades.

If we did something different, might we achieve something different?  If so, the only other choice is eliminating eczema.  If people prefer to believe their eczema can’t be cured they’ll be right.  Those who elect to believe it can be cured increase their choices.

Both groups can read these 7 blogs to gain a useful appreciation of what underpins EXeczema.  Then they opt to retain the negative limiting belief that it can’t be cured or prefer to break away and move on.  It is the latter group who will use this blog series to take positive action.

That completes one of my major tasks.  I‘ve used my extensive knowledge of science and medicine to find question which led to useful answers.  That resulted in the EXeczema training process which teaches those associated with eczema more about skin.  That new knowledge explodes many myths which cloud the eczema field.  Ample information was revealed in this 7-blog series to show people how to escape eczema.

If people choose to use my NewGenn products to achieve EXeczema then fine but if they prefer to use someone else’s to free themselves from eczema then I’ll be equally happy.

My objective when entering the eczema minefield was to find a path people could reliably use to escape.  The high success rate we have in leading people out of eczema in 14 days suggests my objective has been achieved.  However this blog is about Psychology which allows me to ask why those who have opted to remain with eczema chose that option.  The answer is that they’re not ready to let go of eczema yet.

The good news is that they now have a choice; they can remain with eczema or leave.  I’ve given them that choice and I’m content with that achievement.  I’ll continue to work with those who opt to remain with eczema as I believe they don’t need to.  However I value their model of the world and it’s their skin.  The only question relates to parents who choose to keep their children in eczema.  It may be their child but it’s decidedly NOT their skin.  They will have their reasons and I will simply continue to show the path to EXeczema.  Every person who chooses EXeczema and successfully achieves it will provide added hope for those who are considering this new escape route.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS, NewGenn CEO, EXeczema creator, option revealer and pathfinder.

Bacteriology

The penultimate blog is my 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series discusses Bacteriology, the study of bacteria.  There are countless bacteria on and in skin and we should be very glad they share our space.  It’s the way they interact with skin which keeps our outer surface healthy.

If that harmony is seriously upset all bets are off.  When we abuse the bacteria with harsh chemicals, many of the microbes will die, upsetting the balance.  We may be intending to only kill the few dangerous bacteria but since most anti-bacterial products are so non-specific many good bacteria also die.  That creates opportunities for bacteria which can tolerate those products and an unhealthy bacterial population develops.

Another way to upset the Bacteriology is to cause chronic damage to the skin, the place where these bacteria live.  Eczema is a good example as it can go on for years in its unhealthy state.  People with eczema often scratch causing rough skin, sometimes breaking it to the point of bleeding.   The rough skin is an unnatural state and unhelpful bacteria can take advantage.

In addition, various creams, ointments, emollients and moisturisers are applied many times a day.  That’s another very unnatural state and, as expected, certain bacteria take advantage of those changes too.

At its worst, the damaged eczema skin can allow bacteria to enter the bloodstream resulting in blood poisoning, septicaemia.  That can be a life-threatening condition requiring intense antibiotic treatment.

Whichever way you upset the skin, the bacteria are affected and will adapt to whatever new unnatural state they encounter.  Sometimes it doesn’t really matter but at other times a very serious problem arises.

The normal response is to kill the bacteria with all sorts of treatments like antibiotics and powerful hygienic skin washes.   Yet why are we attacking the bacteria?  It’s very unlikely they induced the skin changes they have adapted to.  Aren’t they just the natural consequence we should expect after we’ve damaged the skin?  That simplistic act of treating the symptoms is certainly easier than discovering the real underlying problem which led to the imbalance of bacteria.

Would a better approach be to eliminate the eczema?  There are many who say eczema can’t be cured, yet they are the very same people who advocate killing bacteria.  If you accept the latter as unsound advice, do you want to encompass their negative beliefs about ending eczema?  If you do, you’re in the majority and can take safety amongst the millions of eczema sufferers who share your view.

If you question their limiting beliefs, you can easily move to EXeczema by allowing your skin to fix itself.  That removes all the factors which led to the bacterial imbalances and allows you to live life without the misery of eczema.

For those who find the dream of no longer having eczema too elusive, the last of the 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® blogs addresses Psychology, the study of thought.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS, NewGenn CEO, EXeczema creator and free thinker.

Physiology

Physiology, the study of how the body works, is the 5^th 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® blog.  The human body is wondrously complex with numerous systems operating in constant harmony.  The interlacing goes on every second without us needing to be consciously aware of how Physiology protects us.  When things go wrong, even more complexity is revealed as reserve systems come into operation.

Eczema is one example of things going wrong.  So why doesn’t the body simply expel the problem?  After all, the disease is on the very outside of the body and all the components of Physiology should combine to push it out.  Yet the eczema tenaciously hangs on for years and sometimes decades.

That tenacity is even more remarkable when you recall the skin cells are always on an outward migration.  They are created at the innermost skin layer and then begin an outward journey as they become tougher and mature.  The eczema is therefore staying in place despite this outward current of skin cells.

I’ve previously discussed that eczema is simply an immune reaction following various chemicals having found their way deep into the cracks found in eczema skin.  There they meet young skin cells which aren’t mature enough to withstand the chemical challenge.  Some of those cells die releasing their contents, including highly reactive enzymes, within the skin.  The immune system duly reacts, as it should do, because those enzymes should not be free within the skin.  The overall effect is inflammation, redness and itching, the classic signs of eczema.

To recap, cracks in the eczema skin allow chemicals deep into the skin, immature skin cells are killed and release their enzymes, so the immune system reacts to remove the enzymes.  The only thing wrong in that sequence is the chemicals reaching deep into the skin.  Everything else was a normal and proper process of Physiology.  The immune reaction means the Physiology is in full active defence mode.  The foreign chemicals and all the debris from the ruptured skin cells will be flushed outwards removing them from the body.

Or that is what Physiology will try to do.  Now what if you applied creams, ointments, moisturisers and emollients to the eczema?  And what if they contained mineral oils making them water-repellent, hydrophobic?  Consider what would happen if you did that many times a day as directed by doctors?  How can the body flush out all that hazardous liquid if the skin is covered in layer upon layer of hydrophobic products?  It can’t so the hazardous liquid stays in place creating more damage, perpetuating the eczema.  ‘Managing’ eczema in this manner maintains it.

Physiology is doing all it can but the management and treatment regimes for eczema prevent success.  Ingredients in those prescribed products began this cycle, and then maintained it by preventing Physiology doing its work.

Bacteria can then become established, so Bacteriology is the next 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® blog.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS, NewGenn CEO, EXeczema founder and provocative thinker.

Pharmacology

The 4^th blog in this 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series relates to Pharmacology, the study of drugs, administered substances that change the body.  Positive changes are intended while negative side-effect cause harm.  Side-effects are tolerated when outweighed by the positive intention.

The steroid in creams administered to reduce the immune reaction in eczema is a drug.  The positive effect reduces the redness and itching.  The limited side-effects are tolerated.

Emollients and moisturisers administered to a child with eczema are both drugs as the intention of using them is to change the body.  Improved skin feel is the positive gain so is there a negative side-effect?  Sadly the answer is yes but since the question is not raised the answer is hidden.

Aqueous cream was routinely prescribed and administered to children with eczema.  Some reacted badly.  That negative reaction has been a clue for many years, yet it was only in 2010 that definitive research showed how dangerous this drug was in eczema.  Now dermatologists say it’s unsuitable for use in eczema.  What changed?  The fact that some children reacted badly was an obvious clue that many others would be suffering a sub-clinical negative side-effect.  The fact that the product was prescribed for so long suggests this obvious fact was ignored in favour of the benefits of moistened skin.  Sadly, even the positive effect has now been shown to be a fallacy as skin damaged by aqueous cream actually loses moisture.  So it wasn’t moisturising and was causing harm.

The aqueous cream story now appears in the medical journals and since the negative side-effects outweigh the positive intention it should not be prescribed any more.  In effect, medical science has finally caught up with those who suggested this was blindingly obvious for years.  Simply knowing the ingredients in aqueous cream was enough to raise alarm bells, yet that was ignored.

Where else may alarm bells be ringing?

Eczema skin has cracks and any creams applied will enter those cracks and come into contact with immature skin cells on their outward journey of maturation.  Those immature cells are not yet ready for chemical challenges of that sort and if any die their contents will be released inducing an intense immune reaction.  Eczema.  The badly managed aqueous cream saga warns us to examine what is in the creams used to administer steroids.  The steroid itself may be acceptable but what of the cream it’s applied in?  Do any of those creams contain ingredients that would damage an immature skin cell?  The answer is a resounding yes.  Those ingredients are drugs and any that damage immature skin cells are in effect maintaining the eczema.  Is this acceptable?

The answer is frightening.  Dermatologists should know the effect of anything they prescribe yet they failed for years with aqueous cream.  Where else are they failing now?

That’s the Pharmacology.  The next blog discusses Physiology in eczema.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS, NewGenn CEO, EXeczema leader and professional thinker.

Pathology

Pathology is the third in my 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series.  Pathology generally represents something bad.  It’s the study of how the body’s tissues change with disease.  Which makes it useful to realise that disease is the state of dis-ease, meaning something is not right.

Eczema victims know something’s wrong as they can see it on the outside of their skin.  Would you agree the real problem must be deeper than just the outer layer?  Of course, as we all shed the outer layer of skin every day and if that was the only part affected the problem would disappear in a day.  Yet it lingers for ages.

The cause of the pathology must be further in so let’s go to the inside and see where it lies.  I view the skin as outer packaging, tough enough to stop the world coming in, yet subtle and porous enough to let moisture out.  So it’s fairly thin, and inside that is the rest of the person.

In the vast majority of eczema victims the inner person is not pathologically changed.  They may be psychologically upset and even scarred, they lose sleep, suffer embarrassment over the appearance of their skin and many other unpleasant factors as a result of the pathology in their skin.  The inner person however, has no useful pathology that might provide a clue to beat eczema.

Therefore the answer we seek lies within the skin itself, so what are the changes, what is the pathology we can use?  To most people skin is a thin two-dimensional stretchy outer layer but to people like me who actively think at the cellular and molecular level it’s a treasure of clues.  To me, each layer of skin cells provides a hint and damage to each of those layers allows me to raise questions.  And questions mean answers.

In eczema-affected skin, there is ample pathology to generate many questions and from those many answers arise.  Does that contrast with the scarcity of answers provided by your medical support team?  Do they basically look at the outside of the diseased skin, diagnose eczema and prescribe products to manage the disease?  If so, there’s hardly any surprise the pathology continues, correct?  Yet that’s what most people say happens.  Sad, isn’t it?

Now let’s be a bit more constructive.  There’s an obvious immune reaction going on inside the bad patches of eczema skin.  The immune system is doing what it should, so let’s leave it be.  If you discovered what was inducing the immune reaction, would it make sense to remove it, eliminate the cause of the eczema, and allow the skin to heal itself?  Then you’ll be glad that pharmacology is the next in this 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series.

Trust me, the clues are there for those who seek them, and useful answers are about to come your way.  At that point eczema becomes EXeczema.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS, NewGenn CEO, originator of the EXeczema concept and motivational author.

Immunology

Immunology is the second in the 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series.  Usually we’re glad our immune systems protect us.  Would you agree that when you catch a cold or cut yourself, your immune system is there to help?

Then why do we dampen down the immune system in eczema?  Steroid creams decrease the immune activity.  In severe cases immune suppressants are prescribed, the strong drugs used to stop transplant rejections.

An eczema person’s immune system hasn’t turned against them or all their skin would be affected, so eczema is not an overt auto-immune disease.  So what is their immune system reacting to?

Could it be ingredients in those moisturisers, ointments, creams and emollients?  A product that’s fine one week can induce redness the week after, so did the immune system learn to react against it?   Perhaps, yet that supposedly bad product may be fine a month or a year later.  Confusing?  That suggests there’s something more going on.

What if some of the replacement skin cells were killed by the cocktail of chemicals resting at the bottom of the skin cracks so typical of eczema?  Those cells are immature at that stage and not able to withstand chemical assaults.  At that stage of their development, the cells would have been filled with active enzymes for producing skin proteins.  If the cells were ruptured the enzymes would be released into the skin and the immune system would react causing red, itchy, inflamed areas.  That’s eczema.  Steroid creams would reduce the reaction but not the amount of enzymes being released.  When the steroids are stopped the immune system would immediately react again and the signs of eczema would return.

In contrast, if the cells were left intact, the enzymes would remain within the cells and not be visible to the immune system.  There would be no immune reaction and eczema wouldn’t be present.

Rather than dampening down the immune reaction, wouldn’t it be wiser to discover why it is reacting in the first place?  Might it be best to avoid applying the creams and emollients that could be rupturing the cells?

Certainly “blaming” the immune system for doing its proper job seems unwise.  Perhaps there is an advantage in asking what the immune system is reacting to and if that can be removed from the scene.  There would then be no immune reaction to reduce.

Eczema happens where the moisturisers, emollients and creams are applied.  Isn’t the rest of the person’s skin free of eczema?  The only difference in the bad patches is the products applied to reduce the immune reaction.  That’s beginning to appear very cause and effect, isn’t it?

Would you agree this is a new way of considering eczema?  If you eliminated the chemical assaults, the cells would remain intact and the immune system wouldn’t need to react.  That freedom from eczema puts you into the highly prized state of EXeczema.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS, NewGenn CEO, creator of EXeczema, leader in disease prevention.

Dermatology

Dermatology is the first in the 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series intended to help people fix their own skin and beat eczema.

Ask yourself, why do so many millions of people suffer from eczema?  The mystery and confusion of eczema raises questions as diverse and numerous as the people who suffer.  Yet skin is simple enough, so how did this unhelpful mystique develop?  Might people lack the answers they seek?  Could they still be searching for the right questions?  Then Dermatology, the study of skin, is a great place to start.

Skin is living packaging which separates the outside world from the inside person.  That’s a tough job so the skin needs to replace itself every couple of weeks.  Each day dried skin cells fall off the outside, and for each cell that falls off a new replacement cell on the inside begins to work its way outwards.  If all those replacement cells mature they join up and make intact skin.  But in eczema the outer skin is cracked and those cracks are filled with whatever products are being applied at the time.

What happens when the healthy replacement skin cells working their way outwards reach the bottom of the cracks?  They meet whatever creams, ointments and emollients have been put onto the eczema, but those cells are still immature and not ready for chemical insults yet.  What if that chemical cocktail killed some of the immature replacement cells?  The contents of those cells would be released into the skin and the immune system would react to that material.  The result would be inflamed, cracked, red and itchy skin – eczema.

In stark contrast, what if none of the replacement skin cells were killed and they all reached the outside to make intact skin?  There would be no cracks, no immune reaction, no redness and no itch.  The eczema would be gone and you’d have achieved EXeczema®, the state of freedom from eczema.

The secret lies in not concentrating on and dampening down the immune reaction.  Put your efforts into keeping the cells intact so there is no reason for the immune reaction. Then you don’t need the steroids and immune-suppressants.

How do you safeguard those replacement cells?  Stop applying those moisturisers, emollients, ointments and creams.  They haven’t ended the eczema, so they haven’t served you well.  It’s challenging if you’ve used them for ages, but it only takes a couple of weeks for the new cells to reach the outside and make normal skin.  That’s a very short period in the overall scheme of eczema, so are you ready?

In all the time you’ve spent considering eczema, how many advisers have explained skin and Dermatology to this extent?  Your answer might explain why such mystique and confusion prevails.  The remaining 6 blogs in the 7 “-ologies” in EXeczema® series will increase your understanding of skin and help YOU overcome eczema.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS,  CEO of NewGenn Ltd, EXeczema® creator and leader, novelist and inspirational speaker.

7-ology intro

Eczema is a complicated state trapping millions of people in misery for years.  The EXeczema® process has allowed many to free themselves in 14 days.  The usual response is to ask HOW.  In response I find it best to take it step by step, progressively bringing people to their own inductive learnings.  They benefit from learning about skin, how it works and how they can best defend it.  They can then keep themselves free of eczema.

First, look at the word HOW and shuffle the letters to make WHO.  Now think back and ask WHO kept the person trapped in eczema.  That simple exercise is revealing as it separates those who want to know and are ready to escape eczema, from those who shudder at the revelation and prefer to hide amongst the millions who, for now, prefer to stay in the diseased state.   The latter simply aren’t ready yet and they should be fully supported while they see others progress from hope to confidence to freedom.

For those who are ready to progress, now look forward and ask WHO will achieve this happy freedom from eczema?  If you personally suffer from eczema the answer is simple; it’s you.  If you are a parent caring for an eczema child the answer is equally simple; it’s you.  When you enter the EXeczema® process I will simply be the guide developing your understanding of skin.  You will be doing the work so YOU will benefit from the reward of freedom.  Would that feel good?  Believe me I’ll gain a fantastic buzz from hearing that freedom has been achieved in your case, but YOU are the vital WHO.

Over the next couple of months I’ll sequentially reveal the 7 “-ologies” I used to create the very simple EXeczema® process.  For those who are keen to know the full list now, it’s dermatology, pathology, immunology, pharmacology, bacteriology, physiology and psychology.  If any one of those is left out it’s very likely that the sufferer will remain in eczema.  During your eczema journey, have you ever encountered an expert in one of those 7 “-ologies” who didn’t know much about the rest?  If so, that person’s advice will have been only part of the required set which means they shouldn’t be blamed for the failure to eliminate the disease state.  That’s why the ‘look back at WHO’ exercise is less helpful than looking forward to realise YOU are the key.

Before I begin the 7-ology series, let me start with an apology for the gap since my last blog.  I was deluged with thousands of comments, for which I thank you all, and I was simply overwhelmed.  I also offer an advance apology if it takes me time to post your new responses and comments.  Please do keep them coming and join in the EXeczema® process; we’ll beat eczema if YOU play your part.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS  CEO of NewGenn Ltd, creator of EXeczema® and lifelong believer in people.

EXeczema freedom fighters campign

A huge thank you is given to the many thousands who’ve taken the time to comment on this EXeczema blog series.  The outstanding global response dramatically demonstrates the immense relevance of eczema in so many lives.

I began writing the blog after sensing confusing emotions among those who had freed themselves from eczema with NewGenn’s EXeczema products.  Typically it took just 10 to 14 days, even if they’d been suffering for decades.  Obviously they were thrilled, but confusion arose when they wondered why they had been left languishing in misery for so long.  Who would allow that to happen?  Was it up to them to help free others?

When I first heard some EXeczema successes use the term “freedom fighters” I took it as a joke.  How wrong I was.  A true spirit of fighting back is now very apparent, so you might ask what or who they are fighting against?

In the simplest terms, it’s the injustice of how they were left in such intense misery for so many years.  Their lives were blighted by a disease they now know could have been stopped in two weeks.  That induced frightening confusion as they had placed so much trust in those who were looking after them.  Now it transpires that many of the products they were advised to put onto those painful red patches of skin were probably maintaining their disease and misery.

It’s hardly surprising that a groundswell of resentment is developing, so I’m now making it my job to channel that energy into constructive campaigns to free many more eczema sufferers.  There are still many millions of people trapped in what I call “the eczema cycle” which raises the question of how to best use the freedom fighters’ energy?

Personally I prefer quiet sustained pressure from within.  We need momentum, and that is calculated by multiplying mass by velocity.  We have such a huge mass of eczema people that each person doesn’t need to provide much velocity for us to generate massive momentum.  I’m very happy leading the EXeczema campaign to freedom, and a good number of EXeczema successes are very willing to do their part in public.  The video endorsements on this website provide an example of how simple it is to take part.

All you need do is free your skin of eczema and provide an endorsement to have joined the campaign.  Others will see hope in your success, feel confidence from the increasing numbers, and gain freedom.  The EXeczema Freedom Fighter campaign is self-generating and it only takes a couple of weeks for each sufferer to become free and play their part.

As with any global campaign, some will join in immediately while others will wait.  That’s right – we can afford to take our time.  The eczema epidemic has grown over three decades, so I’m content to take three years to overcome all that misery.

Will you join me and answer the call to action?

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS NewGenn CEO, EXeczema originator, one who leads with will and humility.

Consider building on EFF from EXeczema Freedom Fighters.  In time they can become EFFing excited, EFFing annoyed, EFFing happy, EFF courageous, EFFing delighted.  It would beneficially lower the tone from my PhD level and bring far more momentum in numbers.  The EXeczema Freedom Fighters campaign will become EFFing powerful.

EXeczema campaign

A huge thank you is offered to the many thousands who’ve given their time to provide comments over the months since I began this blog series.  The outstanding global response dramatically demonstrates the immense relevance of eczema in so many lives.

I began writing the blog after sensing the confusing emotions among those who had freed themselves from eczema with NewGenn’s EXeczema products.  Typically it took just 10 to 14 days, even if they had been suffering for decades.  Those who’ve freed themselves have become very active advocates showing an intense desire to help others.

When I first heard some EXeczema successes use the term “freedom fighters” I confess it seemed to be a joke.  How wrong I was.  A true spirit of fighting back is now very apparent, so you might ask what they are fighting against.

In the simplest terms, it’s the injustice of how they were left in such intense misery for so many years.  Their lives were blighted by a disease they now know could have been stopped in two weeks.  That has induced considerable confusion as they placed so much trust in those who were looking after them.  Now it transpires that many of the products they were advised to put onto those painful red patches of skin were probably maintaining the very disease.

It’s hardly surprising that a groundswell of resentment is developing, so I’m now making it my job to channel that energy into constructive campaigns to free many more eczema sufferers.  There are still many millions of people trapped in the eczema cycle which raises the question of how to best use the freedom fighters’ energy?

Personally I prefer quiet sustained pressure from within.  We need momentum, and that is calculated by multiplying mass by velocity.  We have such a huge mass of eczema people that each person doesn’t need to show much velocity for us to generate massive momentum.  I’m very happy leading the EXeczema campaign to freedom, and a good number of EXeczema successes are very willing to do their part in public.  The video endorsements on www.newgenn.co.uk provide an example.

Now we simply need to provide the stepping stones to EXeczema success for millions of others.  First is HOPE, a simple emotion when you see others who have succeeded so quickly with such little effort.  Then comes CONFIDENCE as you realise how easy it is for you to break free of your chronic skin problem.  The third is FREEDOM which you now know is just a matter of days away, even if you’ve suffered from eczema for many years.

As with any global campaign, some will want to join in immediately, and others will prefer to wait.  That is right.  We can afford to take our time.  The eczema epidemic has been growing for over three decades, so I’m content to take three years to overcome all that misery.

Will you join me and answer the call to action?

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS NewGenn CEO, EXeczema originator, one who leads with will and humility.

Wet wipes and eczema

Wet wipes are a convenient way to apply liquids to skin, so why do large eczema organisations suggest they shouldn’t be used?  Eczema makes life complicated and any added convenience would be welcomed, wouldn’t it?  Apparently not in the case of wet wipes, so what’s going on?

When people began telling me eczema had disappeared when they used our products, I investigated.  “Eczema can’t be cured” was, and remains, the prevailing view so if we weren’t curing it, what were we doing?  Eczema investigations can become bogged down in complexities, but luck was with me.  We had individuals who’d reported eczema disappearing within weeks of them just using our wipes.  So I purchased all 35 of the branded baby wipes I could find from British retailers, and examined their chemical contents.  Surely baby wipes would be safe and mild, yes?

I was horrified.  Two thirds of them contained chemicals that would not be favourable on normal adult skin, let alone sensitive baby skin.  If the wipes contained chemicals that might damage normal skin, what could they do to broken skin in eczema?  So those who advise against the use of these wet wipes on eczema are correct.

Is it that easy?  Don’t use any wet wipes on eczema?  Not quite – we had reports of well-established eczema disappearing within weeks of our wipes being used, so I looked deeper.

It’s always hard to decide on any one chemical, so I also looked at the number of chemicals used.  Our wipes have only six ingredients, including the water, and those wipes leave a marvellous silky feeling, kill hospital super-bugs like MRSA, are biodegradable, have excellent cleaning properties and, apparently, skin can recover from eczema when they are used.

So you only need 6 ingredients, but 14 was the average among the well-known brands, and one even contained 26.

If ours had been the only wipes to contain just “nice” ingredients, the major brands could have simply said we were unrealistic perfectionists.  Fortunately five other wipes shared that good position with us, even if they did have many more ingredients.  Those brands all offered multiple versions of baby wipes but, unfortunately, only a minority contained just the “nice” ingredients.  So if they could do it sometimes, why didn’t they always do it?  One major brand sold three versions of baby wipes and their ‘sensitive skin’ wipe was in the bad group.

So if we’re not curing eczema with these wipes, what are we doing?  I suggest our wipes don’t cure eczema – they simply do no harm freeing the skin to rid itself of the disease.

What can you do?  Only use wipes containing 6 or 7 ingredients.  We’ve proven it’s possible, so the big guys can easily match us if, and when, they want.  Until they do, try NewGenn wipes and help by joining our EXeczema campaign.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS NewGenn CEO, EXeczema originator, an honest broker in this complicated world.

Can moisturisers dry skin?

One of the skin’s many functions is to help control the body’s water.  It acts as outer packaging to hold in water, yet it also constantly allows tiny amounts to pass through and evaporate away.  That is happening all the time, day and night, usually without our awareness.

Skin is also very thin, so there is ample water within us very close to the surface.

If all that water is so close to the surface, and the skin is allowing water through, how can areas of skin become dry?

One way would be if you applied a skincare product that reduced the amount of water passing through.  What would happen if you applied an oil-based product to a patch of skin?  Do oil and water mix?  Does water evaporate through a layer of oil?  It certainly doesn’t when you see an oil spill on the sea.  What about an oil patch on the skin?  Would you agree that putting an oil-based product onto an area of skin might reduce the passage of water?  If so, might that reduction in water passing through make the skin dry?

Many moisturisers are oil-based so applying them would do precisely that.  Have you noticed that once you begin applying moisturiser the treated area stays dry so you need moisturisers more and more until you need them every day?  Sound familiar?

But didn’t we just agree there was ample water immediately below the dry patch?  And the skin should have water constantly passing through, including the dry area in question?    So isn’t the logic behind needing a moisturiser beginning to fall apart?

Even worse, people often apply other products like creams to areas of dry skin creating a chemical concoction.  Sadly that chemical mix can cause damage and pretty soon you have eczema.  Ask those with eczema whether their condition began with dry skin?  Now consider whether the original dryness began because they applied moisturisers?

Sound too weird?  Imagine if I had a 60 minute bath, a really good old soak.  When I dried off there would be a tingle in my skin which they would have me believe meant I needed a moisturiser.  But I’ve just been submerged in water, so my skin is actually OVER hydrated and certainly doesn’t need a moisturiser.  Yet that is what we’re taught to apply.  A similar effect can occur after a shower.   We wet our skin and then apply something that can make it dry.

Most people don’t need to worry about this, but it seems 10% of people around the developed world do as something is trapping them in the eczema cycle.  This blog is intended to provide them with a better understanding of skin.  It also raises the question of whether one of their favourite skincare products may actually be a major part of their problem.

If this blog helps them escape eczema and join our EXeczema^® club then I’m happy.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS NewGenn CEO, originator of EXeczema.

Shampoos and Eczema

Eczema is easier to understand once you appreciate it’s simply broken skin.  Let’s keep it simple.

Skin is skin.  Day in, day out, 24/7, everyone’s skin is making perfectly normal new skin cells to replace the old skin cells which fall off every day.  The journey from new cell to falling off takes about 14 days and we all do it.

If the new cells are normal and capable of making healthy skin, why do patches of eczema continue for years?  It’s very simple.

In healthy skin all the new skin cells make it to the outside and join together making lovely, soft, pliable, skin.  But what if some of the cells didn’t make it?  We produce just the correct number of cells to do the job, so if some are killed won’t that result in too few cells to produce intact skin?  If that resulted in broken skin, might that present a chance for chemicals to enter the skin?  Correct – that’s eczema.

Once eczema is established, sufferers can become trapped in a vicious cycle in which the eczema seems to perpetuate itself.  Skin has no reason to do that, and I suggest the trap is actually fuelled by insufficient knowledge resulting in inappropriate chemicals adversely affecting immature cells in the eczema patches.

So why is shampoo in the title?  Shampoos are chemical compositions intended to remove oils and scale from the scalp.  Put very simply, they are strong cleaning products.  Would you put a strong cleaning product onto the broken skin of eczema?  Not consciously, but what happens when a person with eczema on their body uses a shampoo in the shower?  Where does the shampoo go when it’s washed from the head?  It goes down, all over the body.  So that person is inadvertently putting a strong cleaning product onto their eczema.

What if that tough cleaning product – shampoo – entered the broken skin and killed some of the new skin cells before they reached maturity?  Would that reduce the number of new skin cells available to make intact, good, skin?  It would, wouldn’t it?

I know people who used to apply all sorts of creams and emollients to their eczema patches before shampooing to stop the pain of shampoo in those sensitive areas.  Those people used the NewGenn EXeczema products to form a silky temporary barrier over the eczema patches to protect the latter from shampoo.  Within days their skin began to fix itself.  The only way that could have happened was if the new cells encountered our products and survived.  Simply put, we didn’t kill any new skin cells, so they all made it to the outside and formed normal skin.

No magic – just common sense based on understanding skin, and the use of some very gentle wellbeing skincare products that leave a lovely silky feel on skin.

No eczema ‘cure’ – just no eczema.  That’s nice and simple, wouldn’t you agree?

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVSc(hons) BVBiol(path) MRCVS novelist, one who thrives on simplicity.

Eczema and EXeczema

EXeczema^® is a new word I created to mean after someone has escaped from eczema.  Those who’ve followed this blog and read “Execzema” and “EXeczema for Teenagers” (both available here) know I don’t profess a cure with our products.  In reality we might have one, but suggesting a cure at this early stage is premature.  For now, let’s see how many people can escape eczema with our assistance and decide on the wording later?

Yet I am mindful of people who feel NewGenn is professing a cure through the word EXeczema^®.  To those I offer a simple question.  Which is most important in our success, the products or the support we generate?   There is no magic bullet to cure eczema, yet we have people escaping eczema in as little as 14 days, even when they’ve suffered for decades.   A very significant part of our contribution is to guide people through their psychological boundaries and help them overcome limiting beliefs.

So where did their limiting beliefs arise?  The answer to that little question would fill a psychology text-book but since few people read such texts I’ve put the case in a novel, a thriller which allows the debate to flow in a fictional setting.   Until that’s released, I’ll give a flavour here.

People’s beliefs are a result of what they learn, and that depends on what they’ve been told.  Marketing and advertising are massive industries which make a valuable contribution in providing information and circulating money.  They generally target the majority market and show little regard to problems they might influence in minority sectors.  Eczema is such a minority as only 10% of the population suffers, so it’s correct for the big companies to concentrate on satisfying the 90% majority.

Why state something so obvious here?  Consider skin moisturisers, as many of us use them because our skin is dry.  So far that makes perfectly good sense.  Now imagine if I’d just dried myself after a really soaking 60 minute bath.  My skin would have a certain feeling, and the moisturiser industry suggests that feeling is dryness and I should apply a moisturiser.  Yet I’ve just been in water for 60 minutes so my skin is OVER-hydrated, not dry, so a moisturiser is actually the last thing I need.

I don’t have eczema any more so why does it matter?  Because I’m helping the 10% who do have the disease, and in many cases stopping the use of moisturisers is one of the key steps in completely freeing themselves from eczema.  This moisturiser topic is a good example of EXeczema^® thinking – get out of eczema first and then live your life to the full.

The challenge is to progress through the 14 days it takes your newest skin cells to reach the surface giving you normal skin, and then enjoy the happiness of EXeczema^® freedom for the rest of your life.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVBiol(path) BVSc(hons) MRCVS, NewGenn’s CEO, novelist & champion of the minorities.

EXeczema explained

People are accepting my new word EXeczema pointing out that it can have two meanings.  It could mean the time after eczema, or it could represent the means of achieving that longed for escape.  I agree – it could have either meaning.  So I will set out here the sequence of events which led to the word being created.

My team at NewGenn Ltd did not set out to find an answer to eczema.  At the time we were developing new products to break the infection cycles in hospital.  One key aspect was the way nurses failed to perform hand hygiene, so I asked them why.  They were all caring professionals yet they were obviously not doing what the rest of us considered to be their duty, so why not?  The answer was simple – the hand hygiene products supplied damaged their hands and if they used those products they’d develop occupational dermatitis and have to leave the profession.  As one highly respected staff nurse asked me, “How many patients can I care for if I’m not here?”

It occurred to me that ‘cosmetic’ hand products which controlled the bacteria would help.  The nurses loved them and the damage to their hands disappeared in around 14 days.  Did that overcome the infection problem?  No.  Am I upset by that?  Absolutely.  Then what am I doing about it?  I wrote a thriller to take the topic direct to the public bypassing the medical paradigms which I believe have maintained the infections.  The Reaper’s Rainbow (available on this website) is a fictional thriller in which a well-known terrorist group creates mayhem with the hospital bacteria.  The main purpose is to teach the public some simple clues on how to defend themselves from infections while in hospital.  Why?  Imagine what would happen if all the people going into hospital knew how to avoid developing disease from infections.  Would the infection cycle cease to exist?  Yes.  Is that too romantic a notion?  Perhaps, but if you are heading towards hospital where you know people have died from infections might you want those clues?  The Reaper’s Rainbow gives you that control.

So what about eczema?  When people began using these same ‘green and clean’ products to clean themselves and their homes, young mothers thanked us for curing their children’s eczema.  Those children have subsequently remained free of the disease.

Were the products instrumental in fixing the eczema?  Perhaps.  Have the children remained in an ex-eczema state ever since?  Yes.  As a philosopher I love this dichotomy, yet in all honesty the products were created for a non-eczema reason, and market feedback identified an ‘accidental’ benefit for eczema sufferers.

So what does the new word EXeczema mean?  My booklet “EXeczema: ‘Green & Clean’ revolution accidentally brings hope to many millions worldwide” may help you decide (it’s also available here).

Let me know what you feel as you are the final arbiters.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVBiol(path) BVSc(hons) MRCVS   CEO, novelist & optimist.

Are treatments the problem

What if your skin hydrated itself from within and you could stop using all those creams and emollients?  The people who’ve freed themselves, their friends and loved ones from eczema with the EXeczema skincare range wanted that and achieved dramatic success, freedom and happiness.  In bleak contrast, those who refused to abandon their moisturisers, creams and emollients remained trapped.  A choice is appearing and that brings control.

Some people will want to remain trapped which is fine – we are happy working with the growing number who seek freedom.   Please only use the EXeczema skincare products if you genuinely want to beat the eczema.  Those who have say noticeable improvements were seen within a week and in many cases the eczema had gone in 14 days.

Even then, the person will still have the same sensitive skin they had before so the disease is likely to return if the old products are re-introduced.  It’s therefore very wise to continue using EXeczema skincare products to keep the skin healthy and vibrant.

Why?  The skin produces a new layer of cells on the inside every day to replace the old ones that fall off the outside.  Those new cells progress outwards, starting off very tender and becoming tougher as they mature and move out.  That natural process from new to old takes about 14 days.  If the cells encounter harmful chemicals before they are fully mature some of the cells don’t make it and the skin can’t become an intact strong barrier – so the eczema continues.  Happily, when the cells meet the EXeczema products the cells survive, reach the surface, and give you subtle healthy skin.

Placing moisturisers, creams and emollients onto broken eczema skin can allow the chemicals to ENTER the skin and damage immature skin cells.  Is your first step to freedom from eczema eliminating those foreign chemicals?

If you doubt this, what would happen if you injected those creams and emollients into a patch of healthy skin?  Would you expect the skin to become red and itchy?  That sounds like eczema, doesn’t it?  If the same is achieved by putting these products onto broken skin in eczema patches, the chemicals enter the skin, and its only choice is to become even redder and more itchy!

Of the many millions in Britain who have eczema, many will refuse to abandon their moisturisers, creams and emollients.  That’s how it should be as they may have had eczema for so long it’s become part of their psyche.   It’s the others, those millions who appreciate the logic in these blogs and are ready to beat eczema, who will have a try.  At worst they can return to their creams after a couple of weeks and retreat into the ‘comfort’ zone of chronic misery.  Or they can be free.  Happiness awaits – it’s choice time again.

Dr Harley Farmer PhD BVBiol(path) BVSc(hons) MRCVS   CEO NewGenn Ltd, author & optimistic believer that people like to help themselves and others.

Confusion helps eczema

Confusion is good – when used constructively.  I recently said that some parents were putting foreign chemicals INTO the skin of their children effectively maintaining their child’s eczema.  People have questioned that by saying they were putting the creams ON the skin.  As with most cases of confusion both parties are correct, a comment that is intended to increase the confusion for a while!

Eczema has a psychological component.  That’s explained in my booklet “EXeczema” which is available from this website.   But for immediate effect, consider my previous blog.  It described mothers who were unable to reach for the answers they knew would probably alleviate their child’s eczema.  They are wonderful loving mothers yet they choose to remain in this ‘stuck state’.

They are confused by too much conflicting information.  So why am I deliberately INCREASING that confusion?  To help them advance from their stuck states by developing rapport and earning the person’s trust.  Many will remember being told ‘eczema can’t be cured’ and they will remain behind that limiting belief.  Those people I applaud as they know where they want to be and find comfort in the boundaries others have helped them create.

Now what about those who have chosen to put their faith in me and my new word EXeczema?  These people are at a boundary seeking a way to break through.  Those with hope want to exchange limiting beliefs for confidence.  They have identified their problem as being the limiting belief, proving they are half way there.

The other half rests in confusion.  Try asking a person with great experience of eczema to describe the causes, the exacerbating factors, what maintains it, which products seem to work for a while, why a cream that helped last month is exacerbating it now, what role genetics plays and the many other points we know enter these discussions.  The topic is huge so they become bewildered and lost in the enormity.

Now ask them whether they are putting the cream ON or INTO the skin?  Will you confuse them?  Yes, and they have now focussed on just one element seeking an answer, so for a moment the other bewildering factors are set aside.  The confusion relates to just one topic.

They now have a simple choice – confusion over one tiny topic which we can help them overcome in minutes, or bewilderment which has been defeating them for years.  Momentary confusion is better.

Why can ON and INTO be happening at the same time?  On healthy patches of skin the outer cells are tightly joined together and the cream stays ON the outside.  On red inflamed eczema patches the skin cells are separated so the cream goes INTO the skin.  It’s that simple.  If a cream is applied all over a person with eczema it will stay on the skin in some areas and enter the skin in others.  Once those foreign chemicals are inside the skin in red patches, the body has to react by making the eczema patches even redder and itchier.

Putting creams and emollients on red inflamed skin can exacerbate the eczema.  I’d love to receive your comments.

Dr Harley Farmer, CEO of NewGenn, optimist and author.

Parent maintained eczema

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 revolves around giving people choices, and, would you agree that providing another way for beleaguered and frustrated parents to beat themselves up is best avoided?  So 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 believe 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 that burden and putting myself in the firing line is deliberate.  There are only a few mothers in this category and the reason I chose to persist is that they are all fantastic caring 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 my self-imposed task of defeating the 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 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.  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?

Eczema debate

“EXeczema.  ‘Green & Clean’ revolution accidentally brings hope to many millions worldwide” the newest work in the EXeczema series, is now available from www.newgenn.co.uk   It’s an easy to read booklet written by myself, Dr Harley Farmer, in which I invoke my right as a philosopher to ask  a lot of questions!

The intention is that readers will use those questions to generate new ones more relevant to themselves.  It’s all very well describing how others have found freedom from eczema but everyone’s an individual and it’s expected they will each have differences.  As the number of success stories grows and we have more people who’ve freed themselves, their loved ones and friends from eczema, it’ll be easier to discover the common elements.  Then, and only then, can we really begin contemplating universal suggestions.

For now, I can report that the greatest success rate comes from those who stop using creams and emollients when they start using NewGenn to wash their skin.  Those of us who’ve had bad and chronic eczema know that if you JUST stop the creams and emollients the eczema continues, so it is correct to say the NewGenn products have a role in the red areas disappearing.

However it’s far too early to say precisely why.  It’s a fair guess that some of the creams and emollients are somehow supporting the eczema, but since so many brands have been mentioned it’s impossible to identify any common link.  All that can be said is that when the creams and emollients are stopped when the EXeczema Wash and EXeczema AfterWash are used, the red areas are gone in about 14 days.

Another piece of good news is that the new word EXeczema seems to be achieving our aims.  Those eczema victims who were already at the boundary of challenging the limiting ‘can’t be cured’ belief have taken support from the word and taken action to challenge that limiting belief.  Those people are now free of eczema, and out task now is to help them bring hope to others.

The EXeczema booklets are part of that.  They are available to be placed in schools, nurseries, medical centres and any site where those with interests in eczema gather.

Can you think of such a place?  If so, how many copies do you need?