Chances are, if you suffer from painful and embarrassing eczema, your doctor has you on a strict regimen of medication and advice on how you can reduce the chances of an outbreak. But did you know there are a whole host of all-natural remedies that have been shown to seriously reduce the chances of a severe outbreak? It is true! While not all of these treatments may work for everyone, here are a few you can try. Most of these supplements or treatments can be found at a health food store or at a drugstore.

One of the first steps every eczema patient can perform is a slight change to the diet. With eczema, drastic changes do not need to happen, but small, incremental chances can help. The first thing every eczema patient should cut out of their diet is salt. This is generally good advice for everyone, regardless if you suffer from eczema, but it is even more important if you do.

You should also make an effort to avoid sour tasting foods. These have been known to spark an outbreak. Avoid things like sour candy and things like dill pickles. While you want to avoid sour, bitter tasting foods can help your eczema. And finally, if you enjoy the taste of the spice turmeric, it has shown to help eczema in two ways. The first is by ingesting it with your food, and the second is as a topical treatment that can be placed directly on the eczema itself.

There are also a whole host of foods that are thought to trigger outbreaks, but results may vary from person to person. It is not uncommon to have one food that causes outbreaks every single time in one person that does not affect another person at all. Some of the most common outbreak foods include seafood, peanuts, soy products, milk, eggs and wheat. While it may be impossible to cut out all of those products from your diet, cutting out as many as you can may help.

Another place that many eczema suffers forget to look is at the detergent they use to wash their clothes. Since your clothes spend all day rubbing against your skin, it makes sense to realize that the perfume and dyes used in those detergents may aggravate many common skin ailments.

Try to choose all natural detergents with no heavy perfumes or dyes. Common detergents that are made to wash baby clothes can be just the right thing to soothe the suffering of an eczema outbreak.

Working hand in hand with your detergent is the chlorine bleach you choose to keep your whites white. Chlorine can have an effect on your eczema outbreaks, too. Try to avoid using bleach on your laundry as much as possible. And if it is summer and you have a family pool, remember, you are getting chlorine from more sources than just your laundry.

Even showering too much in heavy-chlorinated water can be enough to aggravate your skin. While there is no way to avoid bathing regularly, if you have a family pool, try to find other ways to cool off in the summer heat.

The last piece of advice is a no-brainer. Keeping your home as clean as possible not only reduces stress, which can cause outbreaks, but it can also put a handle on dust mites which are considered to be a trigger. One of the smartest moves you can make is to start using a vacuum that contains an air filter that can handle mites.

Eczema can be one of the most frustrating and maddening conditions to deal with because it can be almost impossible to pinpoint all of the triggers involved. But by following these easy steps, you can be on the path to recovery in no time flat.