I first discovered Kefir at a time in my life when I truely needed it. My third child had just turned 1 and I had had an eczema type rash on the insides of my arm's since just after he was born. I had never had eczema before in my life so I was perplexed to why suddenly after having my third child I had such a bad rash. I tried everything natural on the eczema like rash first and then resorted to steroids creams to control it as it was alway's itchy. The steroids cream would