my 8 month old has blisters on the soles of his feet and raised red eczema like patches on his face and body

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Can anyone shed any light on this - my 8 and a half month old little boy had blisters on his feet in May which were diagnosed by our GP as Hand Foot and Mouth disease even though the blisters were limited to his feet. We were told there was no tratment and it would clear up on its own - which it did, however it took about 6 weeks in total for the blisters to go, the skin to come off his foot and new skin to grow. Since then he has developed red raised patches on his face, shoulder and legs which were diagnosed as eczema and we were prescribed hydrocortisone cream and oilatum, when this didn't clear them up we went back to the doctor who said he might have impetigo and prescribed antibiotics, we are halfway through this course of antibiotics and I have just realised tonight that he has 2 small blisters on the sole of one foot and about half a dozen tiny ones on the other. His skin is still very inflamed and actually looks worse since he started taking the antibiotics and stopped the cream and oilatum - it has scabbed over almost and is very dry (we did this on our doctor's advice). Can anyone shed any light on this - it has been going on for 3 months now and we are no closer to finding out what it is or it getting any better, and whether the two conditions are linked. Has anyone else ever experienced anything similar to this?

Why did your dr tell you to stop the oilatum? Because he thought it was impetigo|? Did he prescribe fucidin? If it's eczema it will defintiely need oilatum etc

The other thing I always say if someone mentions blisters and eczema is to check its not eczema herpeticum (search on google pictures), the blisters there are surrounded by a little pit. Ds1 had it very badly, and it can be serious, although it is rare.

I think you should go back to the GP and get a correct diagnosis., maybe even a dermatologist. Hand foot and mouth can be confined to the feet, although when my dd had it, she had it on all three. I didn't think it could come bacK AS for the red patches, I wonder why he thought impetigo? Was it oozing and crusting over? If it's gotton worse since the cream and oillatum were stopped, then maybe it was helping. Maybe someone will come along who knows more then me.

the patches have never oozed, but they are red and inflamed and sometimes look as if they have small yellow spots within them - he has 5 or 6 on his face, two small patches on his scalp which do look a bit crusty, one large patch on his shoulders and 4 other patches on his upper and lower legs. They have completely dried out since stopping the creams etc but they are larger and more red and angry looking since