Eczema with baby at 4,5 months

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Hi,
My baby girl has a big red rash constantly on her cheeks, since she's born, always has spots on her face and now that rash is on all the time, she's itchy, tried to scratch it all the time and got effected.
We've been to see doctors a few times, they've given us some antibiotics for her to drink, also corticosteroids cream but it seems to work for about 5 days (full length of antibiotics) then she gets irritated again and scratches again, she couldn't sleep at night because of that. Also she's got some paraffin that Doctor gave us as cream everyday.
I'm really worry and don't know what to use any more! Any suggestions would be appreciated xx

Google bleach baths. 15ml of bleach per gallon of water, every other day. Same concentration as a swimming pool. It'll stop infections and for some reason which doctors can't explain, also reduces the number of flare ups.

I second aveeno.

No hot baths, only tepid water.

Pat skin dry, don't rub it

Socks over hands to sleep at night

On the plus side, most babies born with eczema peak around the 5mo mark. Thereafter it somehow seems to improve by itself. Won't go completely but will get better.

Don't use aqueous, it's only supposed to be used as a soap substitute not as a moisturiser.

Moisturise moisturise moisturise, you cannot do this enough. And leave at least half an hour gap between moisturising and applying steroids. Stop using all shampoo and bubble bath and just use emollients in the bath. We found aveeno had no effect although people on here rave about it. You need to find what works for you. We used diprobase as a moisturiser and steroid creams which worked really well. My DS was 5 months old too, it turned out he had a cows milk protein allergy.

Oh thank you. That's really clear for me. I've ordered Aveeno already and hope that would help her!!