cradle cap on the eye brow?

[mckenzie]

DD, 8 weeks old, has cradle cap on her scalp although not very much but she also has it on her forehead and her eyebrows. On one of her eyebrows it's very angry looking, quite red and also raised up. I'm saying it's cradle cap as that's what the HV told me but do you think it sounds like it could be something else? I've been putting olive oil on it.

could be baby excema

cradle cap is just a catch-all term for the skin cells growing faster than they can slough off .. it can look red and raised when not on the scalp itself

I would continue doing what you're doing and not worry too much .. baby's skin is rarely peaches and cream IME

thanks Twiglett. If it is baby excema, would I still just put olive oil on it anyway?

ds2 8 weeks has exactly the same and we are diung olive oil,,,,,

er he us 9 weeks

ds had the same thing (or it sounds like it) - scaly scalp rather that full-on crusty cradle cap and same on his eyebrows. [and baby acne too, lovely...]. about a month later he got baby excema, and HV prescribed Doublebase gel (liquid paraffin emollient) which cleared up all dry skin and scaliness rather wonderfully.

agree with twiglett to carry on with olive oil - maybe go back to the HV for something else if it gets worse/spreads

thanks for replies all. It looks quite 'angry' sometimes but other times it looks okay. Is that a normal trait of excema does anyone know? I haven't been able to find a trigger for it getting 'angry' looking though.

HI, our ds has baby eczema - sometimes it looks ok, sometimes it seems to flare up and look angry for no apparent reason - if it continues, I'd take her to the gp, as you can get the often expensive creams on prescription that way!

thanks for the tip Coveredindribble, I think I will do that just to get it checked out anyway. It looks now like she's got some of it underneath her eye as well!

My dd got soemthing like that, she had cradle cap, but ended up with dry flakey patches which spread very quickly so it was all over her forehead and down her cheeks. It would often go very red looking, and other times just looked dry. It was excema, and she had to have steroid cream and aquaes(Sp?) cream for bathtime.
I wasn't keen on this but it did clear it up very quickly, and stopped it spreading. Poor dd looked a mess while she had it, so it was worth getting rid of.
I would get it checked out before it continues to spread.

thanks Kelly. Definitely calling the doctors tomorrow now.

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know this is a bit lete since your original post and hope the excema has relaxed a bit. My sons have both got it and 1st son got it about 8 weeks exactly as you described - cradle cap expanding onto whole face and then body. Completely linked to my hormones returning and period starting up again. 2nd son - went on pill straight away and didn't get it until he was one and ten only on legs.
I got oilateum from doc although oilateum plus is better as no perfums. got aqueous cream - which was good but made skin a bit red on application then better about 5 minutes after. now have to use steriod cream and diprobase (from doctors)