Head scratching

[Evan2014]

My 6 month old has baby ecyzma and I use oilatum in the bath And e45 over his body, hyrdacotizone for flare ups and dentinox cradle cap shampoo. He has recently started scratching his head more he seems to do it when his tired and Hungary but also during the night I feed him thinking his Hungary but I'm thinking now could he be just waking due to his head been itchy does anyone have any advise on what to do or what to use on his head x

Oh poor little one, eczema is so horrible.

How often do you do baths? Every day isn't good for eczema as it dries the skin out more. Once a week, but with a flannel wash for bits each day might give the skin a break.

Also not sure if E45 is the best daily cream (not saying it isn't though). Have you tried Doublebase?

We had a nightmare with ds's eczema at around this age, he had it around his head, his cheeks and his torso. We did bath with E45 bath oil (found this far better than Oilatum) every other day and Baby Aveeno all over 3 times a day. For the patches of eczema itself we tried several steroids and after a fairly intense course of moderate steroid (twice a day for two weeks) didn't clear it up we were prescribed Pro topic ointment (0.03% Tacrolimus monohydrate) and it has been fantastic. His eczema cleared up completely. He still gets the occasional patch (he's 15 months) but applying the cream works overnight and it never really breaks out.
It's really worth keeping going back to the gp over it. If it's persistent ask for a dermatology referral. I wish I'd been more forceful as ds suffered through several months of me being essentially fobbed off with more moisturiser ( it was pretty bad eczema though) before we spoke to a gp with special interest in dermaology.

Try scratch sleeves for nighttimes and nap times:

www.scratchsleeves.co.uk

They're brilliant for stopping the tired/sleepy scratching.