Besides improving on your diet to aid the healing of Seborrheic Dermatitis, here are more factors you need to consider to help healing. For caring your skin and scalp, go for natural skin care products that will replenish the deficient nutrients to promote the healing. Products which contain essential fatty acid sources like borage oil or safflower oil are especially great for moisture replenishment, vitamin E for moisture replenishment and regulation of the exfoliation process, vitamin C for anti-oxidant and natural anti-histamine functions, and beta carotene sources, (like carrots or apricots), for their immune boosting properties. As there are so many of these natural skin care products available in the market, you will need to find the one which suits you. No two person have the same skin type, so what is good for one person, may not be suitable for you.

Another often neglected factor is regarding your household water system. If you have not install a good functional water filtration system to filter out chlorine and fluoride, do so now as these harmful chemicals are often the cause of irritation in sensitive skin. At one stage, a domino effect can occur. What is a domino effect? An initial cause of eczema flare up can create a more vulnerable atmosphere for the occurance of another cause. Take for example, the first cause of the seborrheic dermatitis could be due to your diet, this will weaken your body immune system and make it easy for another allergen which could be the chlorine in the water to worsen your dermatitis condition. They are both still eczema reactions: one describes more of an internal cause; whereas, the other describes a direct external cause.

The most important factor in treating seborrheic dermatitis, or any type of eczema in general, is to understand your body immune system and how it is related to how your skin works. Find out what your body needs and work to replenish those deficiency with whole food sources and plenty of pure, clean water. Most of the times you will find that the solution is much more simple to fix than what doctors would have you believe. Let’s use an analogy of a car to make things clearer. Your car often break down may be due to the wrong fuel in your gas tank. You might be using diesel fuel in an unleaded gas tank which is causing the problems. So the simple solution is to add the right fuel to the gas tank. In other words, replenish what is deficient and watch the car go. Similarly, with the human body, putting the wrong fuel, ie. food, in the body, causing deficiencies of nutrients and thus causing the body to breakdown, ie. getting diseases and sickness. If you understand this principle, the most important thing that is needed is not medication to suppress the symptoms; but rather, the right food to replenish the deficient nutrients and promote healing. This same principle applies to treating Seborrheic Dermatitis.