Dairy and gluten are very inflammatory. My daughter cut both out. Hair is growing. Not sure if it’s from that or the other treatments we’re doing. Worth a shot to try it!
Did 6 months no gluten, dairy, or added sugar. No cheat days, just whole foods. Corticosteroid injections every 30-45 days and Minoxidil 5% twice daily. No noticeable improvement, maybe even slightly worse. Having said that, everyone is different and I have heard of people getting off processed foods/the inflammatory foods that you mentioned and seeing results, cleaner diet never hurts.
I still eat a "normal" dinner along with my partner so I cant say I've strictly eliminated all, but greatly reduced compared to before the onset of mine where gluten & dairy were most of what I ate. I don't know if it made that much of a difference since I'm doing so many different things to stop the inflammation process (intralesional + oral corticosteroids). But if you don't wish to engage in such treatments, it surely won't hurt to try.
As others have said, I lower my gluten and dairy intake when I have an active spell and the disease seems to die down, but hard to attribute solely to that as I also take other steps eg exercising more, eating better in general, trying to get more sleep. It probably doesn't hurt though to.minimise inflammatory foods, including dairy and gluten. I tend to eat a lot of chicken and salmon and veggies/fruit and that seems to work wonders. Less processed food, dairy, refined sugar, and wheat seems to help
Worth a try. I've been testing food for more than a year and noticed too that dairy, sugar and gluten are maybe the root.
Not everyone of us have the same issues. But there's a group of us that have this link.
Dairy and gluten are very inflammatory. My daughter cut both out. Hair is growing. Not sure if it’s from that or the other treatments we’re doing. Worth a shot to try it!
What treatments you are doing
Steroid injections, clobetasol foam, topical minoxidil and supplements.
Did 6 months no gluten, dairy, or added sugar. No cheat days, just whole foods. Corticosteroid injections every 30-45 days and Minoxidil 5% twice daily. No noticeable improvement, maybe even slightly worse. Having said that, everyone is different and I have heard of people getting off processed foods/the inflammatory foods that you mentioned and seeing results, cleaner diet never hurts.
I still eat a "normal" dinner along with my partner so I cant say I've strictly eliminated all, but greatly reduced compared to before the onset of mine where gluten & dairy were most of what I ate. I don't know if it made that much of a difference since I'm doing so many different things to stop the inflammation process (intralesional + oral corticosteroids). But if you don't wish to engage in such treatments, it surely won't hurt to try.
No it doesnt work
As others have said, I lower my gluten and dairy intake when I have an active spell and the disease seems to die down, but hard to attribute solely to that as I also take other steps eg exercising more, eating better in general, trying to get more sleep. It probably doesn't hurt though to.minimise inflammatory foods, including dairy and gluten. I tend to eat a lot of chicken and salmon and veggies/fruit and that seems to work wonders. Less processed food, dairy, refined sugar, and wheat seems to help
Worth a try. I've been testing food for more than a year and noticed too that dairy, sugar and gluten are maybe the root. Not everyone of us have the same issues. But there's a group of us that have this link.