Fair skinned, excema and the sun!

[mspotatochip]

DS 22 nmths has fairly nasty excema at the moment. He is very fair skinned and has reacted to the sunscreen we have. He resists a hat. His Dad thinks a bit of sun will help his excema (to be fair dp suffers so know what hes talking about but doesn't have fair skin like the kids and me!)

At a loss as to whether to keep him in the shade (boring) or make his excema worse with the sunscreen!

What do people do!?

Try different sunscreen - my DD is sensitive to some and not others, and oddly enough, she reacts badly to most hypoallergenic brands .

I wouldn't have thought that sunburn + eczema would be a pleasant mix.

I can se ethis getting expensive sigh. Needs must

I know, sun cream is shockingly expensive. You can save the rejected ones to slap on the rest of the family though - my DD2 used to work her way through DD1's rejected ones.

Not had much luck with dd and suncreams myself and was asking the same questions to our new dermatologist the other week. As he said most atopic skins don't cope with most suncreams and maybe the best option is to keep covered up and in the shade wearing hat ect. Pretty much what we have done all dd's life really. Did get sunsense from the dr free once but resulted in eczema coming all over her face where I applied it. I did splash out and by the same brand but for sensitive skins as not on prescription but I believed she had some mild rash afterwards then aswell but I may test it on her again this year as only tried it once. It is extremely difficult I know. What about one of those free standing parasols for the garden? Some are quite huge. Handy over a paddling pool/sandpit ect