How to treat Infant eczema?
Submitted by julian on April 12, 2008 - 8:26am.
My daughter has been suffering from Infant eczema. rash all over her body and most prominently on her face. sometimes the skin breaks and she oozes pus. not fun. she's had it since 2 months and its gotten sort of worse now at 8 months. she wakes up scratching and crying.
also does anyone know a good pediatric dermatologist?
we've tried:
hydrocortozone
aquaphor
vasaline
neutrogena Norwegian formula
not bathing every day / bathing every day
the baby took some allergy blood tests for
dog, cat, mold, pollen, dairy, egg, wheat, soy and came positive on egg so we've eliminated it from mom's diet.
baby just eats breast milk, carrots, peas, rice cereal
WOW
thats crazy . my 3 years old son JAYDEN has it too . its not that bad but we just make sure his body stay lotioned . lol . if we forget . . he reminds us . its too funny .
Eczema meds
My 2 year old twin boys have had problems with eczema since 6 months or so.
Our pediatrician said they couldn't use Elidel until they were 1 yr old, so it had to be cortisone creams until then. We found that they were both effective with regular use, the key being regular use. If we skipped a day, the affected areas became much worse.
We were lucky in that our boys didn't scratch a whole lot to begin with, but we did have 1 round of antibiotics because some areas around the mouth were becoming infected (it was hard to control with all the drooling from teething and the scratching.)
We limited baths to 2x/week (which was a horrific thought to both sets of grandparents, but we were looking out for our boys, not trying to make our parents feel better.)
At 2 yrs old the eczema continues and our doc thinks we will deal with it for a long time, but it seems to be controlled. We don't use Elidel everyday now, just when we see it flaring up.
My friends who've had children with eczema have also said positive things about Elidel.
I personally deal with eczema, but it's not bad for me and I just use an over the counter moisturizer on the spots. I also have bad allergies as do my siblings, so my boys are just dealing with bad genes as far as this stuff goes. We have not pursued allergy testing for the boys yet, but have tried to introduce foods one at a time and watch for allergies. We've only possibly identified one thing (tomatoes, and even that we're not sure if it's true for fresh tomatoes or just preservatives used in tomato sauces.)
Hope you find something that works for your daughter.
My daughter suffered from eczema
My daughter suffered from eczema, we have had some luck with suki products. several friends I've recommended it to have seen mild improvement.
we especially enjoyed using it on our baby. do the research www.sukisnaturals.com
ECZEMA
hi,
I have terrible eczema too and i know how miserable your baby is.I had a pharacist mix me up something and mine cleared up right away for years then it came back with a vengence I might add . I
went back to the pharmacy and the man had retired and no one knew what I was talking about.One night I couldn't sleep because my hand were itching so bad so I decided to search the net for homepathic remedies thinking maybe I had something in my home that would help when I came across a site called www.Freederm.com .They described how a pharmacist made them up a concoction and how well it worked and they decided to market it .I swear to you this stuff will work.I do NOT sell it Nor do I profit in any way for recommending it. I only tell people because it works.They have several pictures of people including babies with horrific cases of eczema and in as little as 3 days it's almost gone! If you send in before and after photos they will send you a free jar and they have a money back guarentee.Please for your baby's sake go check out their site. I ordered the package with the soap ,cream and the moisturizer.Now I use Aveeno for eczema lotion instead of theirs simply because it's available at my local drugstore and it works for me .I recommended this to a friend for her grandbaby (she has it so bad that grandma cries with her) she bought it and called me the next day after she tried it to thank me and said they could already see a major improvement and the baby was not crying anymore ...Good Luck....
Renew lotion for eczema
Hi Julian,
Neither of my two daughters have eczema, but we have friends who have had great success with Renew lotion and Renew bath oil produced by Melaleuca. Also they found using Melaleuca's phosphate and chlorine free laundry detergents to be extremely effective.
My family is a Melaleuca customer and we are also very pleased with everything we've tried. We are so pleased that we have become company representatives.
Here is a link to a PDF on the Renew lotion:
http://www.melaleuca.com/ps/pdf_us/US_RenewPIB0806.pdf
And a link about their home cleaners:
http://saferforyourhome.com
Feel free to email me at Fingober@yahoo.com.
Peace,
Daniel
Could be Mineral oil in the product/medicine
Hey,
you know something that might really be aggravating the situation is the mineral oil in alot of these products. They use it as a filler here in the states but it's completely banned in europe. It seems to be used alot in the cortizone creams and almost every soap product you can buy at the grocery store, it can really dry skin out.
My wife has been using the Arbonne baby line (just so you know she does sell the stuff as well) for our son, it contains absolutely no mineral oils, and i'm sure there are plenty of other products out there mostly obtainable at the health food store. So i'm not trying to plug her sales but i really believe that the mineral oils will be an aggravator rather than a help i.e. Vaseline. It definately aggrevates and dries my skin.
http://jbl.myarbonne.com/
this is my wifes website for those interested, or just speak to someone at the Health market and they will for sure know a good, safe product for you.
hope it helps
Ben
olive oil for excema
My son, 2 years old, has excema since birth. Finally, a physician suggested olive oil after a bath (especially on the scalp). Works wonders. We use a calming creme with brand name "Eucerin" as a body lotion on his trunk and back. Only on inflammed areas, we use Cortizone-10 Creme with aloe.
Our protocol has worked for us. Bathing every other night. After bath, use olive oil on the scalp, Eucerin on the body, and Cortizone cream on inflammed areas only.
Medically, have her screened for allergies.
Sid
thanks!
thanks, I'll try that.
I've also heard of some chinese medicine called "Skin Balance" has anyone tried it?
http://www.maxnature.com/skbafuskhesu.html
what's interesting is that it also appears on a pet food site for pets.
julian
eczema
if it is eczema, i'd stay away from the topical steroid cream prescriptions, as all that does is thin out the skin and make it more prone to infection...
like bluewlvrn mentioned, talk to your doctor about elidel (http://www.elidel.com/index.jsp). it's non-steroid cream and helps with the itch as well as the eczema itself. a lot of my friends who are doctors and suffer from eczema recommend elidel over anything else in terms of prescription.
not sure about whether it's okay to use on an infant or not...
Allergies
My two sons both had (have) eczema. The primary cause turned out to be allergies. Both came up allergic to eggs (though oldest, 3 yrs now comes up clean on scratch tests). They both also had other food allergies (dairy, some grains).
My youngest (16 mon) has pretty much been ezcema free since we cut eggs and diary from his and mom's diet.
My oldest gets it even w/the food allergens removed. But he is also starting to develop more environmental allergens as well.
The things that worked best were steroid creams and Eladel. We tried just about every over the counter solution w/minimal effect. I don't recall when we started the creams on my sons, but i think it was after 12 months.
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