Four month old with nasty red rash that weeps could be eczema

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Can anyone please recommend anything that will clear up this nasty rash that my daughter has. The doctor has diagnosed it as being eczema and has given me which include oilatum, double base, fuciden and nothing works. Ive just put aveeno in the bath and within half an hour its flared up worse with her arms and legs weeping it looks blistery now. I will try anything and pay anything to clear it as its heartbreaking to see her scratching herself.

could it be impetigo? weeping exzema (sp?)could be due to that rather than acualy exczema, DS2 had impetigo when he was about 2 months old (from DS1 who caught it fromj ...somewhere..playschool?) and we were prescribed some drops for his eyes (it was round them) some antibiotics and a cream - sorry i can't recall what the names were

I don't think it is impetigo but I will ask the doctors when I am there tomorrow. Is there any miracle cream that works (wishful thinking)

This sounds exactly like impetigo - my DS had it. The GP will give you some cream and it'll be gone in a few days... (it looks horrible doesnt it!)

just been to the doctors and have been told its not impetigo, she said its infected eczema, ive been given some Eucerin.

Eucerin is fantastic, it's the only product we have found that works better than Aveeno (in DS at least) but check is the 10% Urea Eucerin as the other Eucerin presentations are not as effective.

But Eucerin or any emollient alone will not solve the problem, you need to clear the infection first. Have you been given FUcidin or Fucidin H? Hidrocortisone for the flares?

I was given the Fuciden H this has helped the infected areas. I put on the Eucerin with 10% Eurea and that seemed to help but the doctor would only subscribe the 5% Urea and this has not been as effective.

I went yesterday to a Chinese alternative medical shop and was given Xiasangju Chongji which is a form of team which is supposed to cleanse the body, we were also given a cream that is called Qin Dai Gao - Today we can see that some immediate results, its not gone completely but its much better - does anyone know anything about Chinese alternative medicine?

i have suffered with eczema since i was born and have tried everything. Creams of the doc chienese herbalist and nothing ever worked. My ds is 2.8 and he also has it on his arms for the last few weeks i have been using e45 cream and it is working relly well more so on ds his arms are lovely and soft.

I will try some e45 then to take away the dryness. The redness and blisters have cleared almost but her skin looks really dry, I put a little bit of double base on this morning as its quite a greasy cream and where I applied the cream its flared up a bit!!

If the cream (not sure which one) makes her skin flare up, stop using it. Finding the right emollient for any individual with eczema is a process of trial and error - what suits some won't suit others and can even make it worse. Unfortunately stuff that works sometimes stops working eventually and then you have to start all over again. Sigh...

My ds reacts to every cream you have mentioned, but only on his face. The only thing that works is Elocon - it is strong but you only need it occasionally once the initial treatment is done. Otherwise I leave well alone - no emollients as they all bring it up again. Most of the time he needs no treatment. Going out in the cold/damp and central heating all make it worse. HTH

It seems my dd reacts to every thing too, I will try that double base on her legs (just a small patch and if it causes a reaction I will bin it, I thought that was working too. It really is a nightmare isn't it. Another thing, the chinese lady told me to put Johnson and Johnson oil in the bath, i did do and she did not react to it. I wonder though is there a better oil I could add to the bath.

I use Earth Baby in the bath, it's not moisturising but ds doesn't react to it. Luckily I can use oilatum on his legs. You have to be so careful with natural creams, the Weleda calendula one contains lanolin which was the trigger for ds' excema.

If the excema is weeping you may need to give dd some oral antibiotics. Elocon cream is really good. I don't want to worry you but I have seen in the media that Chinese herbal remedies sometimes contain extremely high doses of steroids, higher than is permitted in our creams. I wonder if there is any way you could get your cream analysed? Also google for any excema/allergy support groups for more advice. We only use Ecover washing products btw.

Thanks nearlythree - i will look into it some more.

I have never heard of that washing powder ecover do you get it in the usual supermarkets?

Yes, Ecover is basically an environmentally friendly range of cleaning products so there are no added perfumes or chemicals. It's important to wash a baby's clothes in non-bio esp. if they get excema. We buy Ecover in both Tesco and Waitrose or you can get it on the net - you can get washing liquid, powder and tablets, plus handwash, stain remover and fabric softener as well as washing up liquid etc.

My dd has terrible eczema. she had to be kept naked when she was a baby as she couldn't wear anything without screaming. her skin was always broken weepy and infected. she was in hospital a bit. she never slept. it was hell. she is now almost 8 and it has nearly gone (not quite).
different things work for everybody but what we did was use the 3 minute rule:
bathe her daily at least using an emolient (the only one that she wasn't allergic to was DERMAL 600). get out of bath pat dry with clean towel and used a 50/50 mix of white soft/liquid parafin. Dress her in babygro type gaments and put tubigrip on hands (to cover hands) all within 3 mins of getting out of bath.
keep nails short. on really infected bits we use .5% hydrocortisone ointment and also eumovate ointment. never use creams only use ointments. everything can be got from GP on prescription.
she did have wet wrapping and i used ecover products (they were great, I got a years' free supply of everything from them ) - warning: the grease wrecks your washing machine. i can tell you how to minimise this (we started off buying a new machine every 6 months until we found out how to keep them going longer).
we still use the 50/50 grease once a week (at one stage it was 4 times a day with me going into nursery to do it!). she uses dermal products: they have bath emolient, shower lotion and soap substitute. and i am really vigilent with her skin - poor girl gets inspected each night for sore patches!
good luck