6 month old with itchy skin

[Lilysworld]

My DD has suffered with eczema and I’ve finally managed to get her skin to calm down from flare ups, but still struggling with itchy skin. I’m currently using ECOVER washing liquid and doing a rinse wash afterwards, this seems to be the best washing powder ( previous used fairy & Persil) non bio) & also using dream cream from Lush. Both seemed to have eased her itching but it is still bothering her. I also don’t use anything but water for her baths.
does anyone have any advice on how to ease it or Atleast stop her from clawing her poor skin to shreds.
Thanks x

We use oilatum bath emollient with our 5.5 month old - pop a cap and a half in her bath and it acts as a barrier for her skin to prevent it drying out :). Just have to watch them as it can make the bath a little slippery! But we used it with our eldest and again with DD2 and found it helped a lot!

Child's Farm moisturiser - the one with a duck on - amazing!

Could it be something that she’s eating that’s causing the itching? My DSis had terrible eczema and it turned out to be protein in milk that she had the issue with.

are you using a lotion on her skin?

you need to do it multiple times a day.
when she starts getting itchy, it’s times to lotion up again. Your GP will have a prescription the recommended one.

and as other have suggested, emollient in the bath and have a look at the formula you are using.
GPs always say it’s not dairy or animal products but 70% of the people I know who have eliminated it have good results.

some people use breast milk soap but I know that a bit weird for most people.

My dc both had very bad eczema and it's food related. One to dairy, one to egg.

I can only use supermarket own washing powders and from using cloth nappies now realise that you don't need nearly as much as you'd think. I'd stick to powders and check the right dosing for your machine and water conditions.
Do you run regular maintenance cycles on your washing machine as you can get a build up of old washing powders in the machine and you can then find that you aren't fully washing the detergent out which can then cause skin irritation. I can't use any of the liquids or the pods it has to be powders. Powder is also recommended for cloth nappies as the liquids and pods and linger in the fabric and cause irritation. I would also look at dietary causes by daughter has multiple food allergies and these can cause itchy and eczema too.

I found that both the Lush dream cream and Aquamax cream used in combination worked well.

I would also use some sort of emollient wash in the bath as water can be quite drying.

There are also two versions of the dream cream (the self preserving and the not). One of them is better for eczema than the other because the ingredients are different. I think it’s the non self preserving one, but I can’t remember now.

E45 do an anti itch cream that we found helpful, along with copious amounts of cera ve moisturiser. I also made up a spray from oilatum lotion, a few drops of lavender oil and plenty of borage oil (the latter is really helpful for eczema). Also oilatum in the bath.

At times ours was so bad we had to put plasters on her skin over the sore bit to stop her clawing herself raw at night.

Oh also, you can get scratch mitts thst are attached to shrugs so they cant get them off, these were helpful at night!!