Infected eczema, has anybody got any advice please?

[tee4two]

Hi,Ive seen my nephew this afternoon, and although I had heard he was suffering with his eczema again I didnt realise just how bad it was.
It is apparently infected eczema, diagnosed last week, and the stuff on the backs of his knees do indeed look like this, but he has a large patch on his buttock and in his crease that looks so sore and so painful and today the large one had weeped a clear liquid onto his pants. He is only 5 poor little thing, and I could cry for him.
It is the size of about three 50p pieces grouped together and if I didnt know better would say it was a very bad burn. GP has prescribed doublebase and Fucidin [I think] but it is getting worse. Apparently there is nothing more the GP can do, now he will have to see a specialist, which is great but I wondered if anyone had any advise for something my sister could try right now?
It is such a sorrowful sight we will be grateful for any advice at all.Thanks.

I said that a nurse would probably be a bit more helpful with dressings etc, doc just seems to throw different creams etc at it.

goats milk tastes sweeter than semi-skimmed cows milk imo, and slightly more creamy but i don't suppose that is really a fair comparison as it is pasteurised goat milk vs semi-skimmed cows milk. we wouldnt get semi skimmed goats milk because the dc need all the fats etc they can get because they don't have normal 'dairy' stuff. BTW, I use vitalite marg for everything, it is dairy free obv - and good to bake with and so on. the soya marg (even the sunflower one) goes watery when you heat it.

Giggle, its taken me the whole of DS3's 6 months to realise what was wrong with him. If I start to go into it we'll be here all night. [posted last week about banging my head against the wall!]
We have an appointment next month with a dietician so hopefully that will shed some light, but I am definitely going to give the Goats milk a try, for DS2's eczema.
Will let you know how we get on.

if you want to discuss this endlessly (which i am happy to do !!) then catch me at gigglewitch at googlemail dot com You have done well getting it figured out in six months, as i said DS1 was 20mo and we had no clue what was wrong with him, when it all started at the time i finished b/f-ing him at 10 months. That should have been a huge clue...

Oh bum...

Can you do a patch test like you do for creams etc, or am I being a bit silly?
I cant be doing with anymore runny bums!!

if goats milk etc doesn't work, try sheep's milk / cheese.... as KKM says, tis all hit and miss. but bliss when you get it sorted.

Thanks gigglewitch, I will do that. It will be nice to have someone to talk to who knows what I'm talking about.
I wont bother you yet though cos its getting close to my bedtime, and DS3 will probably be waking up again soon anyway!

agree 100% about goats milk- but then i would as I make goats cheese for a living! the bi-product of making cheese is goats milk whey which i add to the bath sometimes too.
marvellous stuff- but i don't usually mention it in RL as people think I'm bonkers.
lol

Thanks to everyone, you have all given lots of useful advice. I will let you know how he gets on tomorrow.

Cremolafoam, is it a perk of the job or can you actually buy the whey?
I'd be interested to try that too.

DS is allergic to cows' milk but does react to goats' milk as well, not as severely though, so I do tend to use it if I need a bit in cooking. With cows' milk he gets terrible hives.

Hi tee4too. I have never tried to buy whey, but i do know you can buy goats whey powder in health food shops- people who want to build muscles use it as it is a high protein source- even somewhere like Holland and barrett.
However i doubt whether adding this stuff to the bath water would be beneficial.( itis often flavoured with vanilla)
I am lucky in that it is a bi-product of my cheesemaking.The whey is pretty tasteless and my sister gives it to her kids mixed with fruit juice or whizzed into smoothies. It is unbeleivably good for you-In germany for instance they sell it as a drink becuase of its health benefits. most cheesemakers will feed it back to farm animals like pigs.We don't have a huge ammount so either bath in it, eat it or give it to the dog/cats at home.

any news t42?

Hi all, my sis went to see a nurse at her practice this a.m and was told hers was impetigo, and then she asked her to look at my nephew's bottom, and she nearly fell off her chair in shock at the sight of it. She said it is impetigal [sp] eczema, and that the only case she had seen as bad as that was on a 16 year old boy who was sent to hospital and put on an antibiotic drip!
After seeing the GP he has been given amoxicilin and has to use the same cream he was given last week [dont know why?]
My mum says he seems a lot better in himself, whether because he's had a days dosing or because being off school means he's more comfortable.
Thanks to everyone for your advice, she's certainly going to be trying some of them out.

Cremolafoam, I ask about the whey because my sis wondered if there was anything to put in his bath that was like milk [but not] that would make a lovely soothing bath for him. She is going to give the oats a try, I think she has fixed her plughole now!!

at how bad it all seems to be. glad he is getting the treatment he needs.
We bath our lot using aqueous cream instead of anything soapy / bubbly