Aveeno - how good is it?

[pollydianasmummy]

My 6th month old has eczema around her mouth and on her cheeks. I've heard Aveeno is good. Which tube would you recommend, and does it work well?

At the moment I am using diprobase, which worked initially, but now seems to be bothering her on her face. I also put oilatum in her bath.

I was prescribed eumovate recently for her itching face but I am keen not to use steroids if possible.

You can get Aveeno on prescription as it's expensive. Ask your gp. It is lovely to put on and good at moisturising, but it is after all a johnson and johnson product so not free of parabens etc.

I found Aveeno very good but DD skin got 'used' to it had to alternate between it and diprobase.

Although tbh that seems to have stopped working too.

Aveeno is a lovely moisturiser, I've started using it myself a bit.

It may be enough to sort your daughter out. Some people talk about it like a magic miracle cream - it's not, it's a good moisturiser.

We also use Aveeno. Diprobase, double base plus some other creams I can list all made DD's exzema worse and not better. Our GP prescribes Aveeno oil for the bath and Aveeno moisturising cream which we use twice a day but to start with slathered on after each nappy change.

My friend's son had horrific eczema and she used to put oats into a muslin square, tie a band around it and put that in the bath. Aveeno is based on oatmeal so that might be a nice natural alternative? I also used it when my son had Chicken Pox and it really soothed the itching.

I use Aveeno and have always found it to be great.

Ds's eczema is mild and luckily confined (at the moment) to the backs of his knees. Aveeno is fine but no better (in our experience) to any other emollient.

I know you're reluctant to use the steroid cream but I have to say that a couple of days of hydrocortisone when his eczema gets inflammed really sorts things with ds.

I would use the steroid cream
Moisturiser alone won't solve the itch

Aveeno is okay
You can get it on prescription

thumbs up from us, we get it on prescription too

we used the steroid cream to get it under control when it flared up as well, don't need to any more it's calmed down a lot

aveeno is a nice moisturiser but recently dd2's skin reacted to all her usual moisturisers, including aveeno, so we changed again.

I am very surprised you were prescribed eumovate for her face - had you already tried 1%?

Hi - thanks for your ideas.

Can i ask re the oats in the bath.... are they just porridge oats? and I use Oilatum normally - if I'm doing the oats then I should probably not do the oilatum? Or do you think I could have both in the bath?

Sorry - I'm a novice to eczema!

yes porridge oats in a muslin bag or tights

do not use oilatum at the same time