what helped my eczema

I have had outbreaks of eczema on my hands for years.
I am not certain it is eczema, actually, but it is some kind of allergic response. I would get very itchy areas on my fingers and the fleshy area between my thumb and palm. These would itch for weeks at a time, sometimes getting worse and worse as I could not help but scratch them. They always get more red and inflamed after a few days.

So I went to several skin doctors over the years and I do recall they told me it was a type of eczema. In any case their expensive creams did nothing for me.

I finally figured I was allergic to soaps and shampoos so I began to wear rubber gloves in the shower and any time I use any type of soap or shampoo or touch any soap or chemical for any reason. This helped but I would still get outbreaks once or twice a month which would last for a week or more at a time.

I tried cream after cream - expensive prescription creams and then cheap hand creams. Nothing helped. The best thing I found before was to use a moisturizing cream with very few chemicals in it, as natural as I could get, and use it on my hands after every time I wash my hands and whenever I had an outbreak. This helped but it did not "do the trick".

So what finally worked for me is this:
Organic coconut oil. The kind you can eat. I get a tub of it (16oz I think) for around $6 and I use it on my hands every time I wash my hands and maybe once or twice more during the day and at night before I go to bed.

This has almost totally cured my problem. I cannot say it will cure your's and I am not a doctor so I am not prescribing it. But I am saying that this is the only thing that has ever worked for me. I have not had a bad outbreak now for several months and the small outbreaks I had only lasted a day or less, they went away once I applied coconut oil to them several times a day. I keep it in the refrigerator and scoop out a few tablespoons at a time. In hot climates it liquifies in a few hours or so, so to keep it fresh, I only put a little at a time in a glass jar or hand-cream dispenser in the bathroom.

I hope this works for you as it has for me!