Allergy | Skin Clinic

Our Allery & Skin Clinic specialises in helping you identify your triggers and warning signs as we help you become more competent at learning how to influence your skin with foods, herbs and self-care. Allergies and skin are closely related, tied together by the gut barrier. The integrity of the gut barrier affects skin and mucous membranes and imbalances in the gut can affect seasonal allergies, eczema, acne and psoriasis. In your appointment we go over the foods you are consuming and determine what you should be taking out and putting in. We start you off on a herbal programme designed to treat your particular symptoms which may include liver function, gut health, stress levels or food allergies. As we see you in follow up appointments, we see what works for you and we are able to paint you a picture of how to look after your skin by looking at it as an organ that is affected by the rest of your body.

What we need to remember is that stress, diet and gut health influences our skin so we start to look at the skin as a sign of what is going on inside our digestive system and blood. If our kidneys aren’t performing optimally, our skin is going to have to compensate for us. In other words if you’re not drinking enough water your waste will stat to get removed by the skin. Eliminating fat soluble waste through the liver and bile also needs to be effective. In the long term, if the skin isn’t looked at internally, inflammation levels inside the body continue to rise as metabolic waste builds up. We also need our gut absorbing nutrients effectively in order to feed our skin, and we need quality sleep in order to heal our skin too. Stress is a key player in managing skin conditions especially inflammatory skin conditions like dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis. So when we treat the skin we are really treating the kidneys, lymphatics, liver and bowel!  What started off as a genetic tendency for atopic conditions {nature} becomes a full blown allergy due to environmental triggers {nurture}.

Allergies affect more and more people in the developed world. This is due to the use of antibiotics, the abundance of processed foods and lack of biodiversity in the surrounding environment. Signs of allergies can manifest from a young age or later in life and allergies can be mild or severe in response to foods, pollen’s, dust or food components. Signs and symptoms vary from sneezing, itchy skin, high eosinophils in the blood & digestive disturbances. Many of these symptoms are uncomfortable and annoying but can also become life threatening if the allergy is severe enough to produce an anaphylactic reaction. More commonly they can simply affect our quality of life especially if antihistamines cannot do the job alone. Herbal medicines and nutraceuticals are very effective at treating not only the symptoms but also addressing the underlying causes of allergic reactions within the gut and skin barrier. Once you start exploring natural remedies for allergies you will find they become part of your treatment arsenal. We can help you start to treat the underlying mechanisms that research has shown contribute to allergies.  By working with us in clinic we can help determine what those factors are for you.

Our Allergy Clinic also utilises testing to help identify your triggers as well as look at your particular signs & symptoms which may include stress, digestive health or microbiome dysbiosis. By utilising testing we can discover the things you might be reacting to and slowly eliminate the majority of those. We then address the underlying factors with diet and specific treatments. As we see you in follow ups, we see what works for you and we are able to paint you a picture of how to look after your atopic reactions.

Discover how to nurture your skin reactions by booking in for the Allergy & Skin Clinic:

• 1 hour and 15 minute initial appointment ~ We go over your symptoms and talk about any testing you may need to embark on your journey. We start with herbs and supplements that can help alleviate your symptoms and we assess your underlying factors.
• 45 minute follow up ~ You then go away and start the treatments and come back when the test results have arrived. We then start you on an elimination process to see if this provides you with a deeper kind of relief. We also address the underlying factors be it stress, digestion or  immunity.
• 30 minute follow up ~ Further changes to your diet and lifestyle take longer to implement and if things are going well a maintenance plan can be made. For others, time and patience may require that you work on it for the long term.

Follow up appointments can be made in order to further track your progress. All appointments involve a referral to a medical practitioner if necessary.

To make a booking, head to the booking section at the bottom of this page (the button below scrolls to that section). There you can choose your clinic service, your preferred practitioner, and select from the available times. Payments can be made by adding this product to your cart and completing the online checkout process, or in person after your clinic session.