What made you look up this thread?
I'm curious!
The eyelid condition has lasted until last week, 7 months.
I eventually identified the condition as eczema and started trying things that are supposed to help eczema.
A salve with calendula in it didn't help my eyelids, but did help sore "hot" spots on my dogs- so that was good to know.
Taking extra zinc didn't help.
Dropping wheat from my diet didn't help the eyelids, but did cure all my tummy problems!
In response to the depressing fact of *not* eating gluten containing products any more, I'd been eating a lot of chocolate candy for the past couple of months. My eyelids got worse and worse. Finally, at the beginning of last week they started oozing fluid and getting terribly itchy.
I'd read that chocolate could cause eczema flare-ups, and my consumption rate for the few days prior could only be catagorized as binging.
So, I decided to quit chocolate and see what happened.
Six days later, my eyelids were completely clear. I made a chocolate cake for my daughter's birthday yesterday, and after the cake was iced, I used some of the icing on my gluten-free but Oh So Dry cookies so I could have something sweet too. There were a few chocolate cake crumbs in the icing, but I didn't think that would be enough to matter.
Yesterday evening my eyelid started itching again. This morning I had a crusty, sore line in the eyelid crease.
It really is chocolate causing the problem. This is terrible news for a chocoholic!
Well, it's nice to know what was causing the eyelid problem, but you know what I mean. I have to relegate all cocoa containing food items into the inedible catagory.
I guess I've used up my lifetime chocolate allowance.
I can't believe it took me this long to figure this out. I suppose if it had been a visible problem, I might have been a bit more motivated to find a cure sooner- but since the irritated part of the eyelid was deep in the crease, people didn't really see it unless I closed my eyes.
My eyelids are chocolate level indicators, and have just been recalibrated to show micro levels.