3 Year old bad eczema, please help

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This has been ongoing now for around 7 weeks, we really are at our wits ends with it! Seen numerous gps, use hydromol, moisturiser, oilutum used eumovate steroid cream, it just keeps coming back and fast! We have been told it is probably eczema by numerous gps, we really dont know what to do and our girl is suffering, cant get a dermatology appointment for 8 weeks (private) someone help please

I would say it's fungal then, what about an antibiotic cream ?

Are you sure it's not a food allergy?? Different washing powder?

Also my sympathies skin issues are truly the worst, so strange she's just developed it. Do you blast it with eumovate and it goes completely? Is it dry? Could she have allergies?

Really dont know.. gps are passing it off as eczema but its spreading all over her body and she has never had any issues in the past with skin so really cnt get our heads around it

It is dry, been told to do another 7 days of eumovate all over her body, but seriously how can u keep being told to keep blasting it with strong steroid creams, really dont know how its started as we havent changed anything and anything we use is for sensitive skin, always has been

i Would guess that something is triggering the reaction. You need to find the trigger.

most likely candidates are new products or foods, but it can be something existing. If there is nothing new, I would switch to hypoallergenic products for laundry and personal
care. No guarantee they won’t contain an irritant too, but better odds

make sure there are no scented candles or air fresheners in the house too.

Ugh so strange and frustrating for you and her!! Perhaps after this course of eumovate ask if something like fusicid acid would help as a last resort/test, as perhaps it is infected dermatitis? And maybe go holland and barrat and buy super eco washing stuff, keep a food diary or something. So stressful x

My little girl was referred to dermatologists, had multiple allergy tests, was given every single steroid cream under the sun, given emollients etc. Nothing worked and she continued to get skin infection after skin infection. We eventually got referred to an epidemiologist to see if it was allergy related and for more tests. He felt it was simply really bad eczema. I wish someone had told me at the very start of our journey the advice he eventually gave me. 1 cap of Milton sterilising solution in the bath, 1 cap of emollient (if we so wished but he didn’t rate it and simply said it made the bath slippy), then just apply her normal emollient cream on. Her skin is now almost completely clear! A few small patches sometimes re appear and we apply a very small amount of steroid but we are so happy with her skin. She has been like this for almost a year now and we just wish we had known sooner.

Not sure if essential oils are recommended for her age, but I found a warm, not hot, bath with just a few drops of lavender oil and nothing else was the only thing that calmed an angry red flare, and that creams only worked once the red angry was over. Do not use any type of soap, don't allow shampoo to touch the skin (wash hair upside down in the shower if you're wondering) it makes the skin less waterproof and less able to resist irritants. In my experience, something new is causing the sudden flare - washing powder, air 'freshener' sprays, your new toiletries - shampoo, deodorant, perfume etc, or something in the diet. Sadly dairy and chocolate are common triggers (I always leave the christmas period with a skin 'hangover').

You'll find some sort of miracle cure that works really well, until one day when it doesn't. Eczema and allergies are horrible, you both have my sympathies.

And now I've just realised that this was posted months ago, hope things have improved for you.

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