FLUCLOXACILLIN on a 6 week old baby with suspected eczema. Any thoughts?

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Hello ladies, I'd appreciate any advice on any of you who's given FLUCLOXACILLIN to your LO.

My DS has very dry skin, which feels very rough to the touch. He seems to have minute little bumps all over his body, which have gone reddish in certain areas. The GP has given me a prescription for antibiotics, FLUCLOXACILLIN - 2.5 ml twice a day. He thinks Diego has a bit of infant eczema. He thinks that some red areas could be infected, and this could be stopping moisturisers such as the aqueous cream I'm using being effective.

Have any of your los got a similar condition? How have you treated it? Have you used this particular antibiotic before?

I am concerned that he is very little for antibiotics, and am dreading the much spoken about mouth to breast thrush...

Any thoughts welcome.

xx

my dd2 had bad baby acne which became clearly infected in one patch - red, hot and oozing. My doctor gave her an antibiotic cream which cleared it up almost immediately.

fogot to say, when she was 12 weeks old, she was given antibiotics (flucloxacillin I think) for a chest infection (it was needed, she wasn't sleeping, wasn't eating and losing weight). She got her first patches of real ecxema after that - I 've always wondered if it was due to the antibiotics themselves, or due to her immune system reacting to the infection.

Hi Belgo, thanks very much for posting. Do you remember what dosage you gave your DD? And what did the eczema look like?

It's bizarre that I've been given an antibiotic for eczema, when it seems like it may have caused your DD to develop it...

I would probably want to speak to the doctor again before giving it. I don't know for certain if antibiotics triggered my dd's eczema.

my 19 month old DD has cystic fibrosis and takes a preventative dose of Fluclox twice a day every day and has done so pretty much since birth.

I don't know anything about antibiotics and eczema I'm afraid but just wanted to say that the prescribed dose is usually calculated using a formula of 'x mls per y kg of weight per day' divided by the number of doses (or something like that) so the dose you have been quoted is very much dependent on your DS's weight (within a rough band of weight that is)

I also BF my DD for 9 months and never had any problems with thrush etc

sorry I can't help any more

Thanks, ellymae. knowing your LO hand no adverse effects is reassuring.

mine had yellow crusty bits when his eczema was infected not just red

did it smell funny too? and did this thing cure it?