baby eczema

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Diprobath for the bath (non bubbly stuff)

Diprobase cream or oil for the skin

Both can be obtained on prescription & were recommended by a health visitor

If diprobath works, then switch to Infacare (nice & bubbly) £1.79 tesco/boots - very mild

fsdss

can i just add that Olive oil is quite an acidic oil and not probably the best on a babies face due to the thinness of the skin in that area. (there is some recent dermatology research out there to state this - but its at my work, and im not back there til next week! however will put out a link when able to) olive oil is fine on the scalp, but there are different grades of olive oil which i think the controversy arises.

One of the best oils that i suggest is Safflower oil for the face. (adding oats as someone suggested - is surprisingly favoured and a natural emollient)

before settling off to sleep i would suggest using a barrier such as vaseline on that side of the face as dribble from baby's mouth may be aggrivating that area

https://www.Eczema.org.uk is a good website for information

Frith

Surcare to wash the bedding. Her face is almost the only bit not covered by clothes and pressing on the sheets to swapping the washing powder for the sheets might help.

loveasale

At 5 weeks old my eldest had a tiny bit of eczema on his face....
It got worse and worse , we tried everything- I would read some thing in papers about a certain thing working and would buy up all the stocks but often it only would be a bit batter for a week or so.
We ended up smothering him in Diprobase cream from the Docs and bandages over his whole body ( other than his face ) every night.
His eczema would get so bad it would bleed :-(
I tried the oats , Dead Sea salt, sudacream, Vaseline ,,,you name it we tried it,,, changed milk, washing powder but he still had it.
Then when he got to 7 it really did get a lot better, he still has it a bit but its 90% gone :-)
They say your skin has 7 year cycles?
My advice is try what you can and never give up!

mucklebones

I stick to purely organic products, my daughter is highly sensitive to anything with chemicals in, even the ones that claim to be sensitive, including the creams and oils with synthetic ingredients that the docs prescribed.

Goodluck eczema can be such a nuisance until you can identify the causes and find products that actually work. Thankfully we do not have too many problems since using organic everything including washing powders.

Pisces

Lots of good advice here; I'd just add to avoid 'smellies' with sodium laureth sulphate in which always irritates our son's skin.

Halos and Horns is a good range without it.

notanewuser

mucklebones wrote: »

I stick to purely organic products, my daughter is highly sensitive to anything with chemicals in, even the ones that claim to be sensitive, including the creams and oils with synthetic ingredients that the docs prescribed.

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You do know that everything (including us humans) is made of chemicals, don't you? Air, water, food and drink all contain chemicals.

Savvy_Sue

fsdss wrote: »

www.Eczema.org.uk is a good website for information

I think you mean www.eczema.org, which is the National Eczema Society.

BTW, as well as noting that what works for one child won't work for another, you need to be aware that what works for one child at one time won't necessarily work at another.

And I'll also add that if anyone close to the child with eczema ever has a coldsore, you must be very careful to avoid cross-infection, it is VERY dangerous.

apesxx

My little man has suffered since he was born. I find he is worse if he gets to warm so we have to turn radiator off in his room all year ( apart from the very coldest nights). I massage an epiderm emollient cream into him every morning and epiderm ointment ( looks like a big tub of lard) every night. The lard is brilliant but we only put it on at night as it is really thick and greasy. He has oilatum in his bath and we only bath him 2-3 times a week as too many bath is very bad for the skin.
Use non bio washing powder and sensitive fabric conditioner too. I am a long time sufferer too, I used to get it very bad on my hands but after taking a course of tablets called toctino it has cleared up majorly

sunshinetours

apesxx wrote: »

My little man has suffered since he was born. I find he is worse if he gets to warm so we have to turn radiator off in his room all year ( apart from the very coldest nights). I massage an epiderm emollient cream into him every morning and epiderm ointment ( looks like a big tub of lard) every night. The lard is brilliant but we only put it on at night as it is really thick and greasy. He has oilatum in his bath and we only bath him 2-3 times a week as too many bath is very bad for the skin.
Use non bio washing powder and sensitive fabric conditioner too. I am a long time sufferer too, I used to get it very bad on my hands but after taking a course of tablets called toctino it has cleared up majorly

Epaderm is great and really helped our daughter. We used it morning and night , she hated it as you say its very greasy and sticky but it really worked. The dermatoligist said this from the outset that it was pretty much the one that helped most people when they tried it. Appreciate very much that some work for some and not others but I would make sure this was on your list to try (the ointment is the really thick one , cream totally different)

Some of the newer medicines like Protopic can be rather contreversial but can have some seriously good effects on long term skin conditions. We got to the stage where we got protopic prescribed but never ended up using it as fortunately she went into a better phase and touch wood has not returned to the awful days of bandages and infected skins through scratching