For nearly 30 years I've suffered from a condition called Seborrhoeic Dermatitis. I have been on 'everything' to see if I could get rid of this condition; scalp applications, coal tar shampoos, dandruff shampoos, hydrocrsitol creams; you say it and I bet I've tried it. The various treatments worked for a while and then stopped; some because they shouldn't be used on a continual basis; others because they gave up the ghost.
Since I went low carb in January of this year the symptoms have gone away. I've no itchy flaking scalp or greasy looking hair ten hours after a shampooing.
I remember one Dermatologist asking me, a few years into my getting the condition, if I had changed my diet in any way that could have brought it on. I couldn't think of anything there and then; but later I thought about the fact that I had started drinking beer when I finished school and was old enough to go to bars, and that it was around this time I started getting symptoms. Of course I dismissed this as being the reason since all my friends that were also drinking beer were symptom free and I continued drinking it.

Now that I'm symptom free I'm wondering if it was yeast or the grains or a combination of both that triggered off this reaction.

I'm hoping now, having posted this to the list, I don't wake up in the morning with a flare up. If I do, I'll have a red face as well as a red scalp! Anyone else notice any changes like this since going Paleo?
Gerard.

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