I looked up the Whole30 diet and it sure couldn't hurt. It's basically an extreme eczema diet, except with Karen Fischer's Eczema Diet plan (she seems to be the eczema guru) she will allow gluten free grains like quinoa, rice and others. She bases the gluten issues on a leaking gut, in which the undigested gluten in the intestine passes through the cell walls and into the bloodstream. This gluten is seen by our immune system as a poison and so it raises our histamine levels to try to kill it off these histamines, inadvertently raising our histamine levels to an inflammatory level. Karen also allows certain 'safe fruits', so some natural sugars are allowed if this fruit doesn't contain high levels of offending elements which she outlines. Karen's main focus is on the Atopic form of eczema, but this probably includes all forms. The Whole 30 diet would be seriously hard to maintain. With the KF diet I pick and choose, starting in baby steps until I noticed any difference. I have reduced gluten by 90% and have cut out aggravating fruits: grapes, citrus, stone fruits, berries, pineapple and others, but I eat lots of the safe others. I gave up all alcohol 2 1/2 years ago out of desperation from health issues, but substituted it with sugar, which previously held no interest to me. Giving up sugar is a killer, this will be a desperate act of last resort and still indulge desserts- a real no no, but since I symptom free now am not dedicated to" fixing what isn't broken."

Hi, I am new here and reading through the posts here and on other sites it is very interesting to read how others handle their GD. Mine started a couple of years ago but was only diagnosed from punch biopsies a couple of months ago. The first thing I did was stop wearing conventional bras and changed to oh so comfy and breathable bamboo shaper bras with no seams or wires. The rest of my body is covered in rashes but none under my breasts.