Eczema on 6m old - solutions please!!

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My little boy has suffered with eczema since about 3 months old. He was diagnosed with CMPA and the worst of it disappeared when we excluded dairy. However, with the hot weather and a constant stream of dribble, he has developed it in his neck folds/under his chin. He's started scratching it and making it bleed. We have tried sudocream, aveeno, coconut oil and have gone to the GP twice, who prescribed oilatum moisturiser (useless) and then Zeroderm emollient (acts as a good barrier but isn't clearing it up). Please can anyone suggest anything? I hate seeing him scratching at it and making himself bleed 😪 We do not want to go down the steroid cream route.

Poor little one
I am an eczema sufferer and it is miserable. Can you perhaps put little scratch mittens on him ? Apologies if you have already tried this. What about fragrance free zinc castor oil cream? I've found it to be soothing when my eczema is sore.

You could try this Magic Salve. Excellent reviews. My adult DD has eczema and had a persistent rash on her face which persisted despite cream from the Pharmacy and the Dr.
I bought her this and it was the only thing that worked.

https://kitandkin.com/collections/skincare/products/magic-salve

When DD1 had excema as a baby, my GP instructed me to ditch all fragranced products such as detergent and soaps, and to cease using fabric softener altogether. DD1 was EBFd for ages and even after introducing solids, she had few known allergens in her regular diet and no refined sugars or starchy carbs so it wasn't dietary. The no fragrance regime worked a charm though.

Poor thing. We use Doubebase Dayleve gel 2x per day and Elidel for flare-ups which keeps it under control most of the time, finally.

No fabric conditioner as the dribble reacts with it, the gentlest of non bio laundry liquid and please don't think I mad but ..........organic oats in an old sock and run the bathwater through it. Really soothing and stopped my youngest scratching at night time til it bled. Eldest (all adults now) still has it and after many years of different creams says the unfragranced Palmers cocoa butter is the best.

Try epaderm but use it every hour for the first few days. My daughter was really bad and nothing from the doctor worked until we tried that. After about 2-3 weeks of daily use she was free of it and has been since. It’s been about 9 months. I use it as her regular moisturiser now

Thank you everyone! He does wear scratch mittens but is such a wriggle bum and always manages to get them off! I will try some of the valves and ointments suggested here. We do use fragrance free stuff for his bath but I may just use water for a while to see if that helps. I will also stop using fabric conditioner - I barely use any for his clothes, anyway! Fingers crossed something works and happy for anymore suggestions 😊

Cotton everything, clothes/bedding etc. Surcare to wash it all. And Elena’s nature collection creams/oil.

My daughter developed eczema at 6 months old. What we found worked - switching laundry detergent to Surcare powder, no fabric softener. Keep baths short and not too warm. Replace soap in the bath with an emollient replacement - we used Aproderm colloidal oat cream which we also moisturised with twice a day. We also made sure she was wearing only cotton clothing. We bought Scratchsleeves crossover wrap tops for nighttime, which means they can't injure themselves scratching in the same way - they were great. Also keep fingernails as short as possible for the same reason.

Is it only in neckfolds? I'd say that it could be fungal if so. I'd ask gp for some fungal cream or just bung a bit of caneston on it for a week see if it helps.

Avoid oilatum. That stuff is awful. Made my dc much worse and when I went to use it up it made my skin sting!

My DD had eczema caused by CMPA. Dream Cream (unfragranced version) from Lush was great.

They can be allergic to the scent in sudocrem. We use an emollient wash (using sensitive skin moisturiser diluted), no soap, pat dry then smother on vaseline immediately because no one can be allergic to vaseline. A lot of emollients contain lanolin that is also an allergen. Our baby is only 3 months, so the simplest possible creams are best then

We also shower with him instead of bathing so he doesn't get too wet or cold. We do it every other day otherwise he gets itchy.

We used the happy skin baby grows/vests and used the cream on their website and it helped my little one greatly. We now no longer use steroid cream (I hated using it!)