Eczema and weaning advice

[Pacita]

Hi, I would be very grateful for some advice re: diet for an eczema prone baby:

I've got a 6 month old baby who has eczema. He is 29 weeks and on his 3rd week of weaning. I'm spoon feeding some meals, and BLW others, although I only give him a small selection of what we eat.

His eczema had improved when we started homeopathic treatment a month ago, but he is now having frequent-ish flareups, which I suspect will be related to his diet.

So far, he is breast fed every meal plus he eats fruit and rusks for breakfast, steamed vegetable puree for lunch (so far french beans, peas, carrots, onion, courgette, potato, sweet potato, leek), he is spoonfed holle organic rice porridge with stewed fruit for dinner. He has gummed toast, bread, organix baby biscuits and pizza crust - the latter, I think, was the cause of the most recent flare up.

He has had an allergy pin-prick test, but he only tested positive to egg protein. I don't know how significant these allergy tests are in relation to diet, as they test allergens on contact, not digestion.

I am at my wits end with conflicting information about how and when to introduce foods.

Does anybody have any thoughts?

[Pacita]

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[Pacita]

...and bump again. Any takers?

[Pacita]

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[pointydog]

I can't help with this but have you spoken about this to your gp or asked for a dietician's advice? If you have a lot of conflicting advice, maybe you would feel calmer following your gp's advice and taking it from there?

[Pacita]

This is the thing, my GPs policy is to prescribe strong cortisone cream. I'm tired of using it since he was very little. I feel it treats the symptoms, but not the cause...

[pointydog]

Have you said to your gp that you suspect certain foods are aggravating the eczema and that you want to try leavin gout wheat or whatever and could s/he help advise or refer to a dietician? Worth a shot

[Pacita]

It is worth a shot and I'll try, thanks pointydog. It's just I have a really ropey GP, wish you could see him!

[keznrave]

Hi, Just wondered how you were getting on with treating the eczema. my little boy is nearly 7 months old. I started weaning just before he was 6 months with BLW. He's really getting stuck into his food and over the last couple of days has really developed eczema. I could cry as I've done so much to avoid this - breast feeding exclusively for about 3 months before finally letting him have some formula. Only ever using organic products on his skin. Feeding mainly organic meat / vege / fruit. our household has no pets and we are virtually chemical free. I'm also not a great believer in doctors. The cream I was prescribed for him has parrafin and sodium laurel sulphates! How did the homeopathy work? I'm more into alternative treatments. Isn't it awful that so many children get ezcema these days!