holistic approach to child's ezema?

Deals_2

my 3 year old is getting bad ezema (misspelled i am sure). i have been given a cream with steroids to use over a few days but i wonder if there is a natural method for this. thanks in advance.

beckiem

personally i just use baby lotion on my 2 year old but would also be interested in other ones good luck

noonesperfect

In a word - Neem.

JoeyG

I have started numerous threads about effective eczema treatments, as I think there would be a wealth of knowledge on these boards... unfortunately it is usually considered 'medical advice' and therefore gets shut down after a very short time.

Fingers crossed for this one though... I'm 28 (so not a child) but a fairly obvious one is to avoid soap and anything containing Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) or Lanolin.

I wouldnt like to recommend particular products for young children... but I do know from personal experience that childrens' bath products by a certain popular manufacturer are too harsh even for adult sufferers.

Savvy_Sue

National Eczema Society is a good place for help and support.

Apart from that, what suits one person won't suit another. Moisturise, moisturise, moisturise.

Bexstars

My 17 month old daughter suffers with excema and after being perscribed many different creams that seem to only make it worse I started to look into natural alternatives. For the past couple of weeks I have been using pure hemp seed oil and balm on her skin and can honestly say its made a big improvement, I have even ditched my daily moisturiser and started to use this myself! its a natural product so no chemicals and despite being an oil it doesnt leave the skin oily as it soaks in so well. Like someone else has said different things work for different people but I wont be going back to perscription creams going on the results so far

auntyi

Hi Deals

Often eczema and skin troubles in general are triggered by external factors.

The diet can be important, as can the emotional well-being of the child.

Being a mum, you will always do the best for your children (I have four kids, so I know this is true!), and we often react to the symptoms rather than the cause.

Because I work in alternative therapies, it would be wrong for me to solicit business on this site. However, I can recommend the following for troubles of this sort. You can Google the therapies to find a local practitioner. I haven't included Chinese medicine or homeopathy as many parents are reluctant to expose their child to ingested substances. The following are all absolutely safe for children

kineisiology (great for allergy work, and lots of other things)
emotional freedom technique, or EFT (great for anything that has an underlying emotional cause)
emotrance (works with the energy in the body; has the added advantage it is fun to do with a child because a good practitioner will incorporate movement and word-games!)

Good luck

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ktb

I suffer from excema and a friend of mine that is very into alternative medicine was explaining how important it is to treat the inside of you as well as the dry skin on outside. I dont know exactly how it works but apparently having excema is showing on the outside that there is something wrong with things on the inside.. ie a reaction to foods or certain substances. I think it might also immune related like asthma or hayfever.

In my opinion treating the cause rather than the symptoms is the only way you are ever going to make living with excema bearable. Dr's are usually only able to provide relief for the symptoms and steroids etc are certainly not a long term solution.

Have you tried eliminating certain foods from you LO's diet ? Dairy & wheat and always a good start... take them both out for a couple of weeks and then reintroduce one... see how that works for a couple of weeks.. then reintroduce the other. You can do that with all sorts of foods, eggs, fish etc and see if anything makes a difference...

I have to say stress is one of the biggest causes for mine.. but I doubt your 3 y/o has that problem! :rotfl: