Month: January 2015

Both my son and daughter suffer from Eczema and we did try giving them an oatmeal bath as an Eczema cure.

Eczema is a skin condition that, on my kids anyway, results in red rashes on the skin in the folds of their elbows, backs of knees and in the folds of their neck. I was looking for a cure for this problem as at this point we are putting on a steroidal cream on the eczema to get rid of it and it kind of burns when we are smoothing it in.

I have found one cure online and it is thanks to about.com. The Oatmeal Bath is supposed to help to get rid of these sores and tonight I tried it out with my son. I will have to post again over the next couple of days to let you know if this works to get rid of the eczema at least temporarily. Here are the instructions for creating a Oatmeal Bath.

Eczema Cure – Oatmeal Bath

Eczema Cure – Oatmeal Bath

To try this eczema cure and to make an oatmeal bath, which is more like an oatmeal soup I found, you’ll need a blender, food processor or coffee grinder and 1 cup of oatmeal. You can use instant oatmeal (unflavored), quick oats or slow cooking oats- all work equally as well. For babies, you’ll only need about 1/3 cup per bath.

Blend or process the oats on the highest setting until you have a very fine, consistent powder. To test the colloid property of the oats, stir 1 tablespoon oats into a glass of warm water. If the oats readily absorb the water and give it a milky look and a silky feel, you’ve blended long enough.

Giving an Eczema Cure Oatmeal bath

Sprinkle the oats into a tub of running water and stir the water with your hand several times to ensure even distribution. Feel along the bottom of the tub for clumps and break up any you find.

Take care assisting your child into the tub as the oats will make the tub even more slippery than usual. Allow your child to soak in the tub for 15-20 minutes and pat dry with a soft towel rather than rubbing.

You can use this bath once or twice a day or more frequently as your doctor advises.

Common uses for Oatmeal Baths:

• Chicken pox
• Poison Ivy, Oak and Sumac
• Dry skin
• Insect bites
• Eczema
• Diaper rash
• Anal itching (often from pinworms)
• Windburn
• Sunburn
• Shingles

When I did this oatmeal bath for the kids I found that they were a little nervous getting in as it looked milkyish. After they got in it was fine though and in fact it did help their eczema.  Try it out and let us all know what you find. There are other baths as well besides an oatmeal bath and I will try my best to post more of them.

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So I had a friend share this video that is kinda funny, kinda good, and very inspiring.

The fellow is talking about finding a good after workout snack that is high in protein.

And it leads to making homemade Mango Frozen Yogurt in a gym changing room. The guys name is Tom Daley, he is pretty popular on YouTube and is an elite level swimmer. The chef? Don’t know who he is.

I have now watched this video a few times and finally my daughter and I made it last night. We liked it but I have a few things to say about this.

First of all the changing room looks pretty clean but not so sure. Are we supposed to bring blenders into the gym changing room?

And, where do you store frozen fruit and yogurt in a gym?

Mango Frozen Yogurt Experiment

So, seriously, I was really inspired by this video mostly because we tend to have frozen fruit in the freezer and secondly because I love frozen yogurt but not regular yogurt. I always think of frozen yogurt as something more like ice cream than something good for you.

This Frozen yogurt recipe calls for very few ingredients and as my daughter and I “researched” (surfed around) YouTube we got more ideas.

In the end we tried making our Mango Froyo with these three ingredients:

• Strawberry Greek Yogurt
• Frozen Mangos
• Fresh Basil

The original recipe called for plain yogurt, a bit of zest of a lime, fresh basil, and frozen Mango so we were pretty close. Sadly we had no lime or plain yogurt but I purposely want to try the greek yogurt as it is very basic and higher protein.

When you watch the video above it sees actually like they are using a food processor instead of a blender actually and I am guessing that may work better. If you think about what we made it is pretty close to making a basic smoothie.

After we had blended ours up it was not nearly as thick as the one in the video, which was awfully disappointing so we needed to put it in the freezer for an hour or so.

What Would We Change?

When the Mango Frozen Yogurt came out of the freezer it tasted great although if you are not used to greek yogurt it is a bit overwhelming at first.

Also, we may have put a bit too much of the basil in there (look how green it was).

One other thing I think I would do next time is try regular yogurt.

This greek yogurt maybe awesome for the amount of protein in it but it was a bit too strong to eat a lot which is what you would want if it is a post workout snack

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