Any advice on dealing with baby eczema

mrcow

For a four month old, the best thing you can use is olive oil. Use after every bath and at change times.

My daughter has had it since birth (her skin bleeds when it's bad) and once she got a little older, the doctor prescribed soya oil to use in the bath and a massive pot of petroleum based ointment which gets smeared everywhere. Don't be buying expensive remedies from Boots etc........the prescription stuff works just as well if you keep up the routine.

The key with the olive oil is to keep it up every day.

You will notice that eczema/dry skin generally starts to get worse this time of year with less sunshine and central heating/more clothes being worn etc.

floyd

Have a look at the Salcura website, they have some case studies and photographs on there of people who used their various products with great success. I know the products work as a member of my family is one of the case studies (they recieve nothing for being shown as a case study so I have nothing to gain by recommending them).
Its all natural and they can advise based on particular disorders and the age of the user which combinations work best. It is pricey but it definately works as I use the Intensive spray and Zeoderm for skin allergies and hives and they are fab as most other products have lanolin or mineral oil in which make it worse.
http://www.salcura.com/index.php?invis=yes

Good luck

kazmeister

Hi

I'm with the dont bath every day lot. The body produces natural oils which keep the skin in a healthy condition, a baby only needs bathing when they are dirty and short of bottom explosions or fights with food how many babies actually get dirty. My 2 never had excema altho my siblings and their kids did (bathed every day).

My mother suffers with it and I bought her some "gloves in a bottle" which has made a huge difference to her skin as it protects by coating the skin until it literally wears or is exfoliated off.

haylibo

My daughter had eczema and asthma and was prescribed cortisone. E45 definitely made things worth, possibly the lanolin? What cleared it up very quickly was removing milk from her diet. I wonder whether you have changed your wee beans diet at all recently? Anything new? I'm not suggesting you remove cow's milk if you are using formula but there is lots of anecdotal stuff on the net about the problems people have remedied by removing it from their diet. Not good stuff.
Hayles

princesstippytoes

My youngest daughter had exzema and had to use an oil in her bath. I think it was called oilatum. It helped and she grew out of it.

helend

My dd had eczma as a baby and still has the occasional flare up now (she's 5 now) we found the best thing for her was Aquaeous Cream (sp?) to wash with, Diprobase moisturiser (prescription) and we also used Aloe Vera gel which was brilliant for clearing flare ups:

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.detail/params.item.211636/walk.yah.UKHB-U074

it's a bit pricy but you use so little of it - we've still got a bit left in the bottle we bought 5 years ago!

smellymel222

Thanks for all the replys. The health visitor gave me something to put in the bath and told me to bath her every night! but ive ignored this and im still only bathing her twice a week. Ill think i will try some aloe vera cream and see if that does any good.

Thanks again for all the replys

Sarahjovi

It might be worth keeping a diary of what she eats and if the eczema gets worse after certain foods.

My daughter got an immediate reaction after eating a tube of smarties when she was a toddler. And again after eating 100's and 1000's. After that I avoided anything with food colouring and it helped lots.

Eczema, is an allergic reaction to something. Finding out what that something is, is the trick though. Not easy as doctors don't seem to know much about the cause's of eczema.

Hope this helps.

Sarah

geekgirl

My daughter had eczema badly behind her knees which was made worse by anything given by doctor. In the end I used Graphites cream (homeopathic) which cleared it up in around 2 weeks and never returned.

dangers

We've used sudocrem which I have found to be very good. We have also recently 'found' E45 after years of using aqueous cream.