Share your tips for how to manage children’s eczema with La Roche-Posay

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Eczema is a common skin condition amongst children and at times can be very tricky to manage and keep your child’s skin from being dry, sore, and itchy. It can be especially difficult to keep in check at night and can affect your DCs sleep. La Roche-Posay would like you to share your tips for how you handle your child’s eczema or what has helped you manage your child’s eczema in the past.

Here’s what La Roche-Posay has to say: “Here at La Roche-Posay we understand how eczema can impact quality of life for your child and the whole family. We ran a clinical study which showed that 9 out of 10 children with eczema suffer with sleep issues, spending up to ¼ of the night scratching, which can easily take its toll on day-to-day life. As we are committed to a better life for sensitive skin, we are encouraging Mumsnetters to share their top tips on looking after their children’s dry, itchy or eczema-prone skin, including bedtime hacks to reduce itchiness during the night.”

So what things have helped manage your child’s eczema? Are there any particular creams, lotions, or balms that have worked particularly well at soothing the itch? Do you keep the window open at night and make sure your child is wearing light, loose pajamas to keep them cool and stop them scratching while they sleep? Perhaps you avoid scented washing detergent to prevent your child’s skin from flaring up?

Please share your tips for coping with your child’s eczema below and you will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 voucher of your choice (from a list).

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Cotton only for clothing next to the skin and use Organic Cotton Bedding. Put to bed in all in one so difficult to scratch. When a baby use cotton mittens

We're lucky, our son only has it mildly behind his knees. We found that the best thing for him was only bathing once or twice a week. The creams didn't help but fewer baths and it cleared up.

It's not my child with eczema but my mum. I recommended that she try silver serum on her hands where is is the worst. It has been wonderful for her. She uses it multiple times a day. We found that moo goo works brilliant also. Xx

The best tip is to stop them scratching by any means necessary, cooling lotions being a starting point.

I had terrible eczema as a child so it was no surprise that all of my 3 kids also suffer with it, although to varying degrees. My middle child was the worst-hit. He was under a dermatologist for several years and among the tricks we learned for keeping it under control were the obvious avoiding bubbles in his bath, cotton bedding and nightwear, and ensuring his bedroom didn't get too warm at night. We were prescribed zinc paste bandages a few times, which were an absolute godsend when it got really bad - he'd be wet-wrapped in them for a few days at a time until it was under control again, then we'd go back to the ladder system of steroids. Now he's a bit older, he has the occasional flare up although nothing as severe as when he was little, and he just makes sure to keep his skin moisturised especially after a bath.

I bought Baby's Farm moisturizer I think it is and it worked a treat, my daughter has terrible eczema on the backs of her knees and inner arms. I haven't tried the La Roche Posay but would give it a go.

daily moisturise with E45

there are a few things ive ttied which ive found works, these have stopped her from scratching which she used to do all the time. i stopped using fabric softener, i put aafew drops of baby oil in the bath water and iron everything inside out - when she gets a big flare up i literally coat her in canomile lotion or rub the tea bags on her if i dont have anoy lotion left, so far so good!

We put some porridge oats inside an old sock and put it in her bath. It helps to soften the water apparently and makes her skin soft.

Sweat is a trigger for my son's eczema so we use barrier cream before sports and in hotter weather, he also puts barrier cream on before and after showering.

A couple of things helped us manage Leo's eczema.

Firstly we stopped dressing him in anything woollen. I'm not sure whether the problem with wool was that it made him too hot and when he gets hot and sweaty the eczema seems worse, or whether the wool actually caused the irritation. Dressing him in cotton seemed to relieve the eczema a little. The hardest bit about this was trying to dissuade well meaning grandma's to stop knitting him woolly jumpers!

Secondly we started to use an unscented baby skin balm every night. We definitely noticed a difference with this because if we miss a night with the balm he would scratch during the night and make it worse.

We are now at the point where Leo actually reminds us every night if we haven't put his 'cweam' (as he calls it) on before he goes to bed.

one of my friend's children used to suffer really bad with it but thankfully it got a little better the older they got

Cetraben works great on my little one

I find aveeno moisturiser / lotion absolutely brilliant for using on bad patches of eczema. It relieves itching and moisturises the area very well! Ensure you apply at regular intervals and things should improve :) x

Childs farm products is what has helped with my dd eczema

Check if there are any allergies first. My daughter's eczema was caused by milk allergy and we didn't find it out until much later

loose, natural clothing. Gentle creams but not too much. Avoiding extreme temperature changes, make sure the bath isn't too warm.

we use natural extract clothes soap and fabric softner it hasmade a huge difference

I found that fish oil really helped my son's skin :)

Make sure their diet is as good as possible as well as using external medications and creams. Children can be picky with food and don't always get the best even though it is given to them.

We watch what we are using in everything, bubble bath etc no fabric conditioner, baby washing powder and we try to keep her as cool as possible

When the child is younger, you have to manage the treatment of symptoms yourself, but as the child gets older, he/she should be encouraged to take ownership of his/her own treatment. This cultivates responsibility and helps them cope.

Stopped using liquid soap , Non bio powder has an additive in we found we where allergic too! Coconut oil and hemp oil are very helpful

Moisturise as much as possible. Also child’s farm moisturiser works great for us

Never use fabric conditioner, and has to wear soft gloves to bed to stop the scratching