222: Food Allergies + Skin Rashes in Kids w/ Jennifer Brand, MS, MPH, CNS

The Healthy Skin Show

Did you know that it is possible for children to become sensitized (and even allergic) to food through the skin?

Yep... *mind blown*!

This is something that we're learning more about and that blows a hole in the concept that the only way to become sensitized to food is through the gut.

My guest today, Jennifer Brand, MPH (Master's degree in public health), MS (Master's degree in nutrition), CNS (Certified Nutrition Specialist) is an integrative and clinical nutritionist and the founder of Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition. She specializes in childhood skin rashes (eczema in particular, as well as psoriasis, tinea versicolor, hives, acne, vitiligo, and others), food allergies and sensitivities, and gut problems.

Jennifer’s own struggle with gut problems and disordered eating, her father’s battle with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, her brother’s diagnosis of psoriasis, and her mother’s diagnosis of vitiligo left her frustrated and stirred her search for a different approach as conventional means fell flat:

- An approach that doesn’t remove more foods from the diet. Food is not the root cause of the problem. Your body runs off of nutrients from foods you eat. When they are missing, imbalances develop, and symptoms and health problems follow, even skin rashes.
- An approach that doesn’t include stronger prescription steroid creams, and immune-modulating prescriptions that might manage symptoms but don’t address the root cause of the problem, and can cause additional problems long term.

Jennifer is a relentless detective putting her strong knowledge of nutritional biochemistry to work for you, to identify what’s driving symptoms and health problems in order to address the root cause of them.

In 2013 she opened her private, clinical nutrition practice. Jennifer left her corporate healthcare career in 2017 to focus full time on helping clients get relief.

Jennifer is a faculty member of LearnSkin, and her work has been featured in peer-reviewed scientific journals, Voyagela, as well as on podcasts, online summits, and in-person presentations at venues such as Casa Colina Hospital in California.

Join us as we discuss how food allergies can affect skin rashes in children.

Has identifying food allergies helped your little one's skin health? Let me know in the comments!

In this episode:

• How a baby can potentially develop a food allergy at such a young age
• Is it possible to become sensitized to a particular food through the skin barrier?
• Connection between gut bacteria + food allergies
• Foods that feed friendly gut bacteria
• Problems that might come along with moisturizing rashy skin

Quotes

“When we're talking about skin allergies, that includes things like skin inflammation, eczema, hives, and contact type allergies. So when we get to the statistics here, 9.2 million children had skin allergies in 2018.” [1:33]

“One of the most interesting statistics I've come across in the literature is that two out of three kids with rashes do not have food allergies.” [2:17]

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