Hi Nisha,
If you see that your baby is developing eczema, it will help to minimize extreme yin in both the baby's food and your own, since you are breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is absolutely the best thing you can do for both your baby and yourself, so don't worry about mother's milk. This is very healthy and protective for your own breast health, as well as for your baby's developing immune system.
Eczema is a skin condition caused by extreme yin, --simple sugars, yeast, and acid foods. Milk is yin and products like cream cheese, while hard cheese contains more sodium
and is yang. Be careful that you are not consuming an overabundance of nightshade vegetables, which are acid: tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green, red, and yellow peppers, other peppers, eggplant, and spinach. See the Cybermacro Website Menu for Articles, --for a good article and explanation of "Nightshade Vegetables". As long as your baby is suffering with mild eczema, it might be a good idea to eliminate the simple sugar in fruit. So, your instinct to stop the applesauce was right. In fact, applesauce can be an extremely yin food, causing problems with adults also. Babies who suck 24/7 on a bottle filled with fruit juice develop childhood dental carries (rotten teeth) and it might also have something to do with childhood ear infections. The other area of diet to be careful of is yeast, yeasted breads, white breads, white flour products, and pastas. Review a book or Internet information about Candida and this will pinpoint the foods responsible for overgrowth of yeast, creating systemic Candidiasis in the worse cases, and responsible for a myriad of yin-related illnesses.
So avoiding simple sugars, yeast, and acids should do it, and balancing your own diet and your baby's in the middle range with whole grains and root vegetables to alkalize (ie. carrots, etc.
whole grains - oats, etc.).
Nancy
