infected eczema? problems after epaderm?

[Annabel1]

My four month old ds has a little patch of eczema (so said health visitor)on left cheek - where he rubs when trying to put thumb in. Had been using e45 then health visitor said I must use epaderm frequently. She also said if it didn't get under control must see gp for hydrocortizone. seemed a bit dramatic and other friends whose babies had had eczema said looked mild to them. ANyway, put epaderm on - twice. each time skin had little drops of watery stuff on the surface and the second time it also bled. rang health visitor who said was prob infected and didn't sound like something epaderm should do. not putting it on again til have seen gp tomorrow but has anyone else had probs with epaderm and should I put anything at all on the broken skin bits?

yes sounds like the skin is broken and it is better now to see the gp. sometimes one eczema emollient works fine on one person and the same one can make it flare on someone else. I wouldn't use the epaderm in your case either eventhough it worked great on dd1.

Yes -- DS never got on with Epaderm either. It's a case of trying various emollients and finding which works best. (E45 is not recommended as a lot of people with eczema will react to the lanolin.)

It's really important to get the infection under control the GP will probably give you a cream which has antibiotics in it, like Fucibet. And I would recommend using hydrocortisone on flare-ups it's a very mild steroid cream and won't damage LO's skin, and is much better than leaving the eczema untreated which (as you have found) can lead to infection.

Left GP's with mild hydrocortisone and antibiotic cream and three applications later DS's skin virtually under control. And by end of course (Wed) hoping will be even better. Am generally not into heavy stuff on skin but realise now how nasty skin could have got. GP said should be fine once under control as long as use emollient - have new one now. Thanks for advice