Baby’s dry skin patches – eczema or cow’s milk allergy?

[DadOnTheJourney]

Hi everyone,
My daughter is 9 months old and has persistent dry patches on her skin. Has anyone experienced something similar?
When she was younger, she struggled with reflux. Our GP suspected a cow’s milk protein allergy, so we started using Aptamil Pepti 1 and later switched to Nutramigen with LGG.
We then saw a paediatrician, who felt she didn’t have a milk allergy. As I understood it, they said allergy-related eczema would be more widespread across her body. They advised gradually introducing standard formula until she was fully switched over.
She is now on Kendamil Follow-On Milk 2 and has these dry patches. We’ve tried several creams prescribed by the GP, but nothing has helped so far.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Could it be related to the formula, and what helped your baby’s skin? Would you ask for another allergy assessment?
I’ll discuss it with our GP again, but I’d appreciate hearing other parents’ experiences.

There’s no way to differentiate from appearance alone whether it’s atopic eczema or allergic eczema. Eczema just means inflammatory skin disease whether that inflammation is due to an allergy or a genetic issue etc.

I have wide spread severe eczema across most of my body and no allergies. Eczema can’t be cured so saying you’ve tried creams doesn’t mean much because they wouldn’t eliminate it even if they helped and it was eczema.

Are you moisturising multiple times a day within 90 seconds of taking her out of the bath? Because emollients only lock in the water that’s already in her skin they don’t add extra water.

And before someone says it can be cured because their child’s went away, 90% of eczema goes away in childhood due to changes in hormones. It’s not because rubbing bananas on their feet or you eliminated yeast from their diet.

Looks like eczema - my dd gets that. She’s lactose intolerant (not allergic but she doesn’t have dairy due to bowel issues from milk) and still gets those patches (she’s 3).