Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition

Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition Pediatric Clinical Nutritionist specializing in chronic pediatric skin conditions. Founder of Rashes BeGone® and Rashes BeGone® Professional.

Training functional & integrative practitioners to specialize in pediatric skin.

09/08/2026

Total IgE is not just an allergy marker. It is an immune activation marker.

The immune system elevates IgE in response to allergic disease, but also in response to parasitic infection, H. pylori, Candida overgrowth, and significant bacterial dysbiosis.

When a child has a high total IgE and confirmed allergies that are being managed and the number stays elevated, something else is driving the immune activation. The allergy alone is not enough to explain it.

When a child has a high total IgE and no confirmed allergies at all, the immune system is being activated by something. And that something is almost always internal pathogenic burden that has never been tested for or addressed.

I see this constantly in pediatric eczema cases. High total IgE. Eczema and itching that keep cycling. Either no allergies confirmed or allergies confirmed and avoided with no improvement.

When we run functional testing and find H. pylori, parasites, Candida, or significant bacterial dysbiosis, and address them, the immune activation calms. The IgE comes down. The skin stabilizes.

Because we treated what was actually driving the immune system to stay activated, not just allergies.

A high total IgE in a child with chronic eczema is not just an allergy signal. It is a signal that the immune system is reacting to something. Finding out what that something is, that's where resolution begins.

Comment HIGH and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving your child's immune activation and high IgE.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent whose child has a high total IgE and is still searching for answers.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/07/2026

Your child's eczema has a name. ​Your doctor diagnosed it. Atopic dermatitis. Contact dermatitis. Dyshidrotic. Nummular. Seborrheic.

​But that name doesn't tell you what's causing it. Or how to fix it.

Every type of eczema is named based on how it looks and where it appears on the body. The name describes the presentation. It says nothing about what's driving the inflammation underneath it.

Atopic dermatitis doesn't tell you whether there is significant pathogenic burden driving the immune system to overreact.

Contact dermatitis doesn't tell you why the skin barrier broke down in the first place.

Dyshidrotic eczema doesn't tell you what's keeping the internal inflammatory load high enough to produce blisters on the hands and feet.

The name is a description. It is not a direction.

This is why two children can have the same diagnosis and completely different internal pictures. And why the same treatment approach fails one and not the other. The diagnosis tells the practitioner what to call it. It doesn't tell them what to do about it.

No matter what your child's eczema is called, the skin will not resolve until what's driving it internally is identified and addressed. The type is where description ends. The internal picture is where resolution begins.

Comment ​TYPE and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving your child's eczema​, not just what it's called.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent who has been given a diagnosis but no real answers.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/06/2026

This boy came to me with severe weeping eczema covering his entire body and face, and significant GI symptoms including diarrhea, gas, and bloating.

He was being given raw dairy. His family believed it was a healthier option, especially because he had eczema.

When we ran functional testing we found Salmonella. Staph aureus. Klebsiella. Candida. Significant gut inflammation. An immune system in active overdrive.

Raw dairy didn't cause all of this. But it's likely what contributed to a pathogenic burden in a child whose immune system was already overwhelmed and not equipped to handle it.

Raw dairy is being recommended in eczema communities as a healing alternative. It is not healing.

For babies and young children with eczema whose immune systems are already dysregulated and compromised, it is a serious risk.

If your baby has eczema and has been given raw dairy, comment MILK and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving the eczema and what it's going to take to resolve it.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent who has been told raw dairy is safer or more healing for eczema children.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/05/2026

For years parents were told to delay introducing allergens. It sounded protective.

Truth: Delaying introduction caused a global rise in childhood food allergies.

Modern research has completely reversed this guidance. The evidence is now clear.

Early introduction of common allergens, around 4 to 6 months of age (same time a baby starts solids), trains the immune system to recognize food proteins as safe and builds tolerance. Delaying introduction does the opposite.

Here is what the research shows specifically.

Infants who avoid common allergens for their entire first year show significantly higher rates of allergic sensitization by age one. The landmark LEAP study showed that early peanut introduction in high-risk infants reduced peanut allergy development by 81 percent compared to avoidance. The EAT study showed similar findings across multiple allergens.

For babies with eczema the risks are even higher.

A compromised eczema skin barrier allows food proteins to contact the immune system through the skin before the baby has ever eaten the food. That route of exposure, through broken skin rather than through the gut, builds sensitization not tolerance. Early oral introduction counteracts this by teaching the immune system the correct response to those proteins through the right pathway.

Every month of allergen avoidance in a baby with eczema and no confirmed food allergies is a month the immune system is missing the window to learn tolerance correctly.

This is not fringe science. This is current medical consensus that most parents of eczema babies are still not hearing.

Comment BOOK and I'll send you the link to schedule an Eczema and Skin Case Audit. Your child's specific case, clinical direction and next steps you can use right away.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent of an eczema baby who has been avoiding allergens out of fear.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/04/2026

You're blaming your child's eczema on histamine. The support groups say it's the problem. The functional practitioner suggested it was the root cause. The pediatrician said to give Zyrtec. The low histamine diet started.

And the eczema and itching continued.

Because in the vast majority of pediatric eczema cases histamine has absolutely nothing to do with it.

The itching and reactions aren't caused by histamine. They are caused by internal dysfunction that's causing inflammation. That inflammation, when it hits the skin, triggers nerve endings that send itch signals to the brain, resulting in the need to scratch.

This is why antihistamines and low histamine diets don't stop the itching. They do not touch the internal dysregulation producing it.

The answer is not a lower histamine diet, or a different antihistamine. It is addressing the internal dysregulation driving the inflammation showing up on your child's skin.

Comment SCRATCH and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving your child's itching and get off the elimination diets.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent whose child is on a low histamine diet and still flaring.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/03/2026

Here is what the research actually shows.

Raw milk can contain dangerous pathogens. Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacter.

These are not rare occurrences. They are documented, recurring findings in raw milk outbreaks.

In adults with healthy immune systems the consequences can be severe. In babies and young children whose immune systems are still developing the consequences can be catastrophic.

E. coli from raw milk can cause hemolytic uremic syndrome, a condition that destroys red blood cells and causes kidney failure. Listeria can cause severe neurological damage. Salmonella can cause bloody diarrhea, high fever, and sepsis in young children.

A child with chronic eczema already has a compromised immune system. Their ability to fight off foodborne pathogens is not the same as a healthy child's. The risk is not theoretical. It is significantly elevated.

I have seen Salmonella and E. coli show up on stool testing in babies who were given raw dairy by parents who genuinely believed it was helping their child heal. It wasn't healing them. It was adding a pathogenic burden to a body that was already struggling.

If your child has eczema, the answer is not a different form of dairy. It is addressing what is actually driving the immune dysregulation that makes dairy feel like a problem in the first place.

Comment RAW and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving your child's eczema.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent who has been told raw dairy is safer or more healing for eczema children.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/02/2026

Avoiding allergens to protect your child from ​e​czema flares?

Modern research has completely reversed the old advice on allergen introduction. What was once standard guidance​, wait until age 2 or 3 to introduce peanuts, eggs, and dairy​, is now understood to have caused a sharp ​increase in childhood food allergies globally.

Delaying introduction doesn't protect children from ​eczema flares, or from developing allergies. It significantly increases their risk​ for nutritional gaps (delaying skin healing), and for the development of food allergies.

Here's​ why.

When a baby is exposed to a food early through eating it, the immune system learns to recognize it as safe and builds tolerance.

When exposure is delayed, the immune system may first encounter that food protein through the skin​, via a compromised eczema barrier​, rather than through the gut.

That route of exposure doesn't build tolerance. It builds sensitization. The immune system learns to treat the food as a threat.

This is why children with eczema are already at higher risk for food allergies. And why avoiding allergens on top of an already compromised skin barrier makes that risk higher, not lower.

Infants who avoid common allergens for their entire first year show higher rates of allergic sensitization by age one. Not lower.

If your child has eczema and no confirmed food allergies, avoiding allergens is not protecting them. It may be working against them.

Comment ​​INTRO and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving your child's eczema and how to safely approach food introduction.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent who has been avoiding allergens out of fear.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

09/01/2026

Every food cut from a child's diet for eczema management takes away something the body needs to heal. Protein for skin barrier repair. Zinc for immune regulation. Healthy fats for barrier function. B vitamins for detox pathways. Iron for immune development.

A body that doesn't have what it needs to heal cannot heal. It is that simple.

Think of it like a car running on empty. You can change the tires, clean the windows, and replace the wipers. But if there's no fuel in the tank the car doesn't go.

The skin is no different. No amount of creams, supplements, or protocol adjustments moves the needle in a body that is nutritionally depleted from food elimination.

And the cruelest part of the shrinking diet cycle is that the elimination that's supposed to help is often making the internal picture worse.

A shrinking diet means a less healthy gut microbiome. A less healthy gut microbiome means worsening immune dysregulation. Worsening immune dysregulation means more reactivity. More reactivity means more foods get blamed. More foods come out.

The cycle feeds itself, and the eczema and itching stay.

The answer is not more restriction. It is stopping the restriction and addressing what was actually driving the reactivity in the first place.

Comment FEED and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving your child's eczema and start rebuilding what the elimination took away.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent whose child's diet keeps shrinking and the eczema keeps coming back.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

08/31/2026

A child has eczema. The parent is told to remove gluten and dairy. A pediatrician mentions it. A support group recommends it. A functional practitioner orders a sensitivity test and both show up flagged.

So they come out.

And the eczema and itching continue.

Because gluten and dairy were never causing the problem in the first place. Food isn't what's causing chronic eczema. And removing foods, even the most commonly blamed ones, doesn't address what actually is.

In nearly a decade working exclusively in pediatric eczema I have seen this pattern more times than I can count. Gluten out. Dairy out. Skin still flaring.

Because the real cause was never touched.

If gluten and dairy have already come out of your child's diet and the eczema is still there, that is your answer.

The food was never the problem.

Comment NEXT and I'll send you the next step to find out what actually is.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent who has been told to start by removing gluten and dairy.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

"We had to be careful how we even picked her up."She was 3 years old. Her skin was oozing, cracked, and peeling. Even be...
08/30/2026

"We had to be careful how we even picked her up."

She was 3 years old. Her skin was oozing, cracked, and peeling. Even being held hurt. Three doctors. Two specialists. "Something you'll have to learn to live with."

It wasn't.

When we ran functional testing: H. pylori detected. Staph aureus high. Pseudomonas aeruginosa high. Streptococcus high. Candida detected. Low elastase indicating compromised digestive capacity. Low sIgA indicating a depleted mucosal immune system. Trending high zonulin confirming significant leaky gut.

This wasn't a skin problem. This was a gut and immune system under enormous burden, showing up on the skin because it had nowhere else to go.

Within 10 months of addressing what was actually driving it, everything changed. The oozing stopped. The skin healed. The sleep came back. A 3 year old who couldn't be held without pain became a child who could wear shorts and live like a child.

Not because we found the right cream. Because we finally found what the creams were never going to reach.

If your child has been told this is just something they will have to live with, comment NEXT and I'll send you the next step to find out what's actually driving it.

Save this so you can find it again later.

Share it with any parent who has been told to just accept it.

PS. Follow me so that my DMs go to your inbox. Otherwise it will be in your message requests (so check there).

Address

Culver City, CA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition:

Shortcuts

Featured

Share

Category