baby acne

[pranma]

Does anyone have any experience of this?My 5 week old dgs has this horrid rash on his face and GP says it is baby acne and it will just go but it looks awful.Any ideas for treatment?

I used Avent Magic cream on dd, it worked a treat

Oh thankyou so much it is wonderful to have a suggestion

I used to put Aloe Vera gel on it
(with no other ingredients than Aloe Vera)
this used to help,

but they do grow out of it,

the doctor told me that it was worse in boys and apparently it is a reaction to the hormones in your milk,

Sooty that is interesting-I know dd has been giving him Infacol.

my ds2 had really really bad dry skin and baby acne wee soul looked like he'd been skinned alive it was so red and sore and flaky. I used the wee green tin of vaseline with aloe vera that you get for chapped lips. Bathed him in infacare and then massaged him from top to toe with it. He loved the massages and within about 8 weeks his skin was the softest. try rubbing a wee bit between your palms to soften it and then gently rub it over the 'affected areas'
hope it helps

My first had this- I'll come back and tell you more in the morning, as am just off to bed.

OK, well, my son's normal newborn irritated cheeks just never went away, and indeed got a lot worse when he was about 8 months. We took him to a consultant dermatologist when he was about 13 months and they'd turned into huge cysts that needed draining every day, who said that there were two options:

1. Do nothing and they would eventually resolve, possibly with a little scarring, or
2. Treat them proactively and almost certainly leave scarring.

We chose 1). They went by the time he was about 2.5 (the major inconvenience apart from having to squeeze them was fielding questions from random people), and he was left with minimal scarring which now, at the age of nearly 16, is barely visible.

The dermatologist said at the time that he would no more likely than any other boy to get teenage acne badly, and frankly his acne is not that bad- it's more related to blackheads than that angry kind that you sometimes see on teens. He's just a little pimply over his T zone.

I think his infantile acne was very bad, and I've never seen another baby with it quite as badly (I'll try to scan a photo of him as a baby or toddler to put on my profile for you), so I would be surprised if your little one went as far as the cyst stage, but I just wanted to come and say don't worry, it may well not be as bad as it seems. Also there may be different treatments available now.

Thank you all very much.In fact the spots seem a little less angry now she has stopped giving him Infacol.On the face the spots are quite big and raised and they go down onto his neck and shoulders where they are more pimply[no heads though].He is very beautiful and much loved.

Hello all, I've heard that Infacol can make baby acne worse due to the additives that it contains but is this true of the other colic relief medicines such as Dentinox etc?

Both my boys had it really quite badly, and it always appears at the time when everyone wants to see your gorgeous new baby! I tried Magic Cream, it smells nice but not sure it made much difference but rest assured it will go soon enough.

I think in most babies it really is pretty short lived. I'm a bit dubious about the idea of putting anything on them unless they really don't clear up for months, as there is a strong possibility that anything you put on his skin could make the situation worse. Baby skin is, after all, extremely sensitive. I would definitely avoid coconut oil - I know quite a lot of people who are quite severely allergic to it!

magic cream worked for dd1 here too

Just an update-dgs is now 10 and a half months and has beautiful clear skin.GP said to let it clear up naturally which it did.

Good news Pranma

dd2 had this really bad- i never ered herrelated. anyway i slathered her in sudocrem (wrong sp!) cleared up in about 2 days