My son have eczema since he was 3 months

[Xaini]

Hi everyone

My son is 2 years old he has eczema. Sometimes it's fine sometimes it's get very bad...

Can anyone have any experience of it ??Any good product for bath or cream for eczema.

My son had eczema as a baby and toddler but he grew out of it.

I just used lots of aqueous cream as a general moisturiser, you could try E45 type creams but they are a bit more expensive. Also putting oats into an old (clean) sock or tights and hanging it under the bath tap for a soothing bath. And just avoiding things like baby wipes, even the sensitive ones, and any perfumed soap or shampoo and things like that.

I also had topical steroid cream from the GP which was good for flare ups. Have you seen a GP about it?

Have you tried changing his diet?
With children in my care, we found it was worse when they ate certain food. Tomato when in contact with skin made it flare up. Did not take them off that, but reducing skin contact and cleaning skin quickly following contact helped a lot. Cows milk, using oat milk instead made a lot of it go. Every child will be different, but you may find there are certain foods which make it worse.

Have he gone for allergy testing

Certain foods will trigger

Maybe keep a food diary for a month

The clinic will ask this if you got for tests

DD developed eczema when she was about 6 months old and had it until she was 2.5
GP saw her a couple of times and gave us some steroid creams, they were a bit effective initially (as in, they helped but never completely) and then stopped working and always came back. I eventually went to a dermatologist who gave us an even stronger cream to use for some weeks and then a follow-up one to use every other day. It completed disappeared and never came back - DD is now 3.
I don't know if it will re-appear in the future and I don't know whether she would have eventually grown out of it eventually but this is what worked for us.
I know many people also believe there isn't an actual cure to eczema, you can just keep it under control - it's just one of those annoying things nobody seem to have an answer to.