Am I doing the wrong thing?

[eczemum]

I've been trying to help my baby with eczema for so so long. We've tried so many different things. Steroids help but it just comes back, and then he's back on steroids and he's been using them for over a year with tiny gaps in between where it clears, we wean off and it returns.

I took him to see a holistic therapist who did dowsing with a crystal pendant (I know how it sounds, but she was recommended to me by so many people who all said that they knew how crazy it sounded but she actually did cure their kids). She said he needs 3 remedies, Sulphur 12c drops for two weeks (we are one week in), China drops as a one off and drops for Candida as a one off. She also prescribed Bach flower drops to be used for a month and a calendula cream.

I'm doing it, I stopped all steroids and gloopy ointments and I've just been following her method. But like I say it's been a week and this is the current state of him, she did say it'll get worse before it gets better and part of me wants to trust the process and see it out but also incredibly worried he's suffering because I'm being daft that these drops are going to cure him..

Am I doing the wrong thing? I'm just so done of the band aid effect of steroids 😭

Sorry it's actually been 5 days, so technically not a week, so maybe her 'get worse before it gets better' thing still stands?

I’m not convinced it’ll work but I don’t think you’re unreasonable to want to stop using steroids. Is it diet related such as milk that’s causing it? I’m susceptible to mild eczema and only showering or bathing 2-3 times a week and stopping using all products had really helped it. Calendula cream is good on mild eczema.

Please don't swap medicine for alternative medicine without speaking to your Dr first. I know steroids aren't great but really the person you need to be speaking to is the prescribing Dr.
There is such little oversight on alternative medicine there are so many studies where there is absolutely 0 of the claimed active ingredient in the products so even if the sulfur will help you don't know if the drops you have been given even contain sulfur!

It might be time to give everything in your house and overhaul. I had terrible itchy skin all through my 20s. I was tested for liver disease then itching was that bad. I stopped using fabric softener, switched to powdered washing detergent. I stopped using shower gel and only wash smelly bits with some solid soap bars. I switched my shampoo and conditioner for solid bars and the difference was immense. The back of my neck had been itchy since my teens so 10-15 years and it was shampoo all along! I also only wash every 4-5 days.

Allergies probably want looking at, is the eczema worse if clothes are dried outside? My daughter has allergies and I am in a mums group and quite a few of the children can't have their clothes dried outside as their skin reacts to the pollen caught in clothes. The opposite to me, these kids needs showering at least every day sometimes mid day if they have been outside and in need of rinsing air born allergens off them. Have house dust mites allergies been excluded?