My 5-month-old DS has quite bad excema on his face and neck. My doctor prescribed Hydrocortisone 0.5% for his face and Daktacort for his neck as that had become infected because the air doesn't get to it much. He also gave us Diprobase to use in between. I used both steroids for a week and it cleared up, but as soon as I stopped them the excema came back even worse than before. I went back to the GP and he told me to keep using the creams and they are a very low dose of steroid so it shouldn't harm him unless you use them for weeks and weeks. So I've been using both creams again for another two weeks and the excema has improved slightly on his face but not his neck and it has spread around to the back of his head.
I just wondered if anyone else has experience of using steroid creams for excema and how long can you use them for. The GP said they can eventually cause the skin to thin so I shouldn't use them on the face for too long. What does it actually mean if the skin gets thin - is it disfiguring, is it reversible? I want the excema to get better but I don't want to damage DS's skin.