eczema

[Lilia]

HI!

My DD is 4.5 months old and has eczema on her face. Sometimes it gets really bad. She itches it all the time sometimes until it starts bleeding. We tried using Sudocrem & Infaderm, have room temperature on the lowest and she wears only cotton. Our Health Visitor said to use Sudocrem and wash the face regularly, but it does not do anything (apart from relieves itching a little bit). Have you got any tips on how to make it better and what else we shoud try.

Thank you very much

How old's your baby ?
I never noticed a problem with fish - he started it at 10 months old.
Nanny is available in most health food shops/organic shops and at
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I give my son very little wheat not because he is allergic but I don't think too much wheat is good for anyone (and wheat is in a lot of things if you are not careful). So he usually has corn pasta or rye bread - he loves both.
I don't buy any ready made food but he does eat at nursery (3 times a week) where he gets his dose of wheat I am sure!!!!

She's 7 months old and I've been giving her cod or plaice for the last month or so. She loves pasta and rice so I mainly give her that for tea and veggie / chicken things for lunch.

Mollipops, I think you are right, we do know our children best. Mine seems to be a sensitive little soul to lots of things, we recently converted to reusable nappies too because he was getting eczema around his legs and waistband from the disposables. And it's strange that someone on here has asked about fish, because whenever ds eats it we can smell it coming through his skin and his nappies the next day. He does this with a few foods, vinegar being another one. The hospital are doing lots of tests on him at the moment, so hopefully we might find a reason for it. Still at least his eczema is under control .

Btw, can anyone tell me how I can start a new thread? I can't seem to find the right link anywhere?!

lou33 go to topics, pick the one you want, scroll to the bottom and click on new conversation.

lou if you got to the Topics area then at the bottom there is a button for creating a new topic.

Sorry lou, you also have to go into a topic like health or something and then scroll down to 'Create Conversation'

Aha! Thanks a lot I finally found it!

Hi!

I tried aqueous cream today and it made her worst bits even worse (plus she scratched her cheek again), patches around her mouth cleared a little bit though. Just don't know what to do :-(. It's very upsetting. Just wanted to ask, is oilatum suitable for a 4 months old baby? HAven't tried that yet.

Tillysmummy my DD does dribble a lot!!! We do wonder if she's teething because she is very irritable as well.

Just found Elena's web-site. Are her products suitable for babies?

I didn't know she had a website, what's the address ?
Her products are MAINLY for babies.
DS used it when he was 3 months old.

Just to add my bit - 50/50 cream is the best stuff particularly as it's so gooey it sticks whereas Diprobase disappears like cold cream. (50% liquid paraffin 50% emuslifying ointment). Emulsiderm is the best stuff for the bath for us with a 15 min soak in it.

Anti histamine is worth investigating if you need to sort some sleep out but it's also worth trying Balneum Plus cream and bath lotion which have an anaesthetic effect and help with the itch. You can put it on on top of the 50/50 as it's not the best moisturiser - like Diprobase. Something else to get on prescription but well worth it although not to use long term as the anaesthetic effect can wear off.

One of the big things is to avoid creams that have lanolin in them and also peanut oil - is it called arachis oil or something - and I think it's in some of the Oilatum products. Research last year suggested that if your child had a peanut allergy topical application could effect them.

I'm an expert in wet wrapping having wrapped my babe for a year at a stretch plus shorter bursts. A real chore but it transformed my little girl from looking like she had a biblical plague.

Elena's web-site is www.elenascollection.co.uk

Elena's web-site is www.elenascollection.co.uk

Elena's web-site is www.elenascollection.co.uk

Thanks (3x!) Lilia.
This sums it up actually (from her website):
Since then her niche has become eczema and psoriasis. Especially atopic eczema in babies under 2. However, she also helps children and adults. Fate would that eczema sufferers came to her predominantly.
People contact her from all over the world, all ages, suffering from any skin-problem by word of mouth, or her website

Sorry, something happened to my computer

I have had eczema since I was an infant and have developed various strategies to keep it under control and to avoid it flaring up. I have been able to employ these with my children (daughter aged 1 and son aged 4). My son had eczema when he was a few months old and homeopathy cleared it almost immediately - remedies like that work so well on children as they have little or no medical history! Other strategies are to avoid anything with strong perfumes and detergents (irritants) in them, eg clothes softener, bubble bath, shampoo, pink baby lotion. I have to use Oilatum Emollient in my own bath so I just put a capful in my children's baths and this is a thorough enough cleanser for them; babies don't need their hair washed before they're about 18 months and you don't need to use soap except for washing their hands. (Shampoos are just glorified washing-up liquid). When the children are older, try to find a non-detergent shampoo. I also massage them regularly with almond oil; every now and then my son's skin does flare and this soothes it. Another great soother is Chickweed cream. All the above are strategies I've developed for myself. Having used prescribed drugs for both my asthma and eczema I really did find that homeopathy worked.

PS!

I've also remembered something else. Children don't need to be bathed every night - especially not babies - again, talking from experience, water exacerbates the symptoms. It doesn't give the skin enough time to recover and actually dehydrates it.

Nattie, do you find that almond oil really helps? I used to massage ds every night with it and he loved it but he then developed eczema and I found that it made his skin so much worse. It might be worth trying it again maybe?.....

neutrogena body emulsion is good at maintaing skin hydration thus stopping dryness in turn reducing itchininess. use along with hydrocortisone 1% ointment on affected areas (apply hydrocortisone before neutrogena ) also emulsiderm bath emoillient is good too.my daughter had horrendos eczema from five months. Ifound this combination worked best for her shes now two and has'nt looked back.

Lilia,

Yes, you can use Oilatum, we did from about 3 months. Re; Diprobase. Not much good, tried it. Re: Elena Scharlburg creams - FAB, we've tried for a month now and I've held off posting to see how they work but dd's eczema is so much better. It may just be coincidence but I don't think so.

I used to use diprobase for my daughter but it needed to be applied every couple of hours It was rubbish. Emulsiying ointment is also good but very messy and makes your hands feel really nice too!.

Has anyone tried "allergenic" oinment From A well known health food shop?.