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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Cutting out cows milk and using goats milk instead, baths with just plain water and forgoing the quick wash cycle on the washing machine did the trick for us.

Sorry oat milk not goats milk!

Lots and lots of creams.

Cool, cotton clothing and no wool or anything made of nylon or polyester.

Washing powder that is as gentle as possible - this is trial and error.

Cool at night and during the day.

Oats in a sock in the bath. My Mum swore by eating oats as well so we eat a lot of porridge!

Scratch mittens at night or gloves as they get older.

Sheets changed frequently and all cotton too.

Accept that you have to live with it - it is not curable but can be managed.

And change creams fairly frequently. I find they stop working after a while. We are currently finding the Lipikar stick thing is brilliant for facial eczema which can't have any steroids on it.

My ds has it when he was a baby till he was about 4. I found bathing him less and using aqueous cream liberally worked the best for him.

My DDs have both had instances of mild eczema, but fortunately nothing too bad or long ;lasting.
Natural fabrics whenever possible. Non-bio detergent and gently fabric softener. Surcare is very good- I also find that their washing up liquid is the only one that doesn't make my hands flare up, so hopefully the DDs will be able to help with washing up when they get bigger.

Be on the look out for flare ups and try to dress in loose clothing preferably 100% cotton. Stay moisturised helps too so cream cream cream lol

DD aged 4 has chronic severe eczema. We have found that no one emollient works for very long and we have to keep changing them. For us, when the skin gets very hot, the best thing is some frozen veg held on the bit which is most itchy.

We found the emollin spray cream brilliant for when we are out and just can't apply thick emollient creams.

I mean a pack of frozen veg obviously!

My youngest daughter uses Aveeno as a moisturiser and Betnovate for any flareups, my eldest daughter has to use hibiscrub to keep on top of her Eczema on her hand, and also for showering for the eczema on her legs, but since using it, it's been a lot better. Moisturisers everywhere in the house and car so they're available when needed!

Honestly the best thing for my eczema was either Vaseline or cold compress. Nothings really going to get rid but that defiantly takes off the edge and soothes. I've been using this method since I was a baby. Apart from steroid cream which I got as an adult that's all that worked x

DS has had eczema since his 2nd lot of jabs. He seemed to have picked up a virus which has left him with really dry and itchy legs and ankles. We occasionally use hydrocortisone for flare ups but keep it at bay by reducing diary in my diet as I'm breast feeding, baths with no products in, only bathing 4 times a week, some burst and bees baby oil and using sudacremem and ecoderm cream mixed up together to keep the moisture in. Johnson products completely dried his skin out when he was a new born too. I just thought he didn't like bath times but in hindsight the creams and products were obviously making his skin hurt.

My ds is ten...I keep tubs of cream around the house and he can apply it anytime he feels he needs to as well as morning and evening.

After a lot of trial and elimination when DS was a toddler:
We have used the same detergent for 11 years, because I know that the wrong washing powder can cause flare up.

Also never any fabric conditioner.

DS still uses Tesco baby shampoo for hair and body as again anything else causes a flare up

Also only sunsense suncream

All of this is particularly important now as his go to moisturiser for over a decade (aveeno) is now causing a reaction. Don't know if they've changed the recipe or if he's just developed a sensitivity to it.

Will try some of the creams recommended on here

Also

When he was small he wore gloves at bedtime (with the thumb cut off so he could suck his thumb!)

My son suffered with eczema for a while - it's cleared up now fortunately, but when it was active - we used the following methods;

• Avoided swimming - chlorine seemed to trigger a flare-up.
• Cotton bedding & cotton PJs
• A fan on when in bed - soothed by the white noise & the cool air gave him some relief from the itching.
• Used Aveeno Itch Relief balm for itchiness & Aveeno Eczema Therapy daily.
• Stopped using fragranced bath foam/shower gel - we were given Oilatum to add to bath & used aqueous cream to wash with.

Moogoo irritable skin cream is absolutely amazing!! Stops skin itching so helps to break the itch/scratch cycle allowing skin to heal.

moogooskincare.co.uk/skin-problems/irritable-skin-balm.html

I’ve found the child’s farm cream really good, although often need a course of hydrocortisone to get on top of things.

My child only has it very mildly, we moved to just washing his body with water, using sensitive shampoo on his hair. When he gets a flare up, aveeno cream does seem to help. Making sure his clothes don't rub in hot weather as well.

Some suncreams set him off, so now can only use 2 brands.

We found that sleeping in shorts helped the itch even in winter as it stopped him getting too hot and irritated.
We have started using child’s farm moisturiser and it is the one thing that seems to be helping

MOisturise more than you think you need.

I try not to get her too hot as i think sweating makes it worse and i always use non bio washing powder - i think bio makes it worse.

My child has had rashes on her cheeks since she was 4 months. Doctors only diagnosed at 7 months she has eczema. She’s 8 months now. I have been prescribed a steroid cream to use when it flares up. Doctor suggested I keep her skin moist with a good moisturiser/olive oil all the time which seems to have been helping. She had a flare up on her legs which went away just with the moisturiser. I try keep the moisturisers as natural as I can.

Dermol in the bath (available via prescription) has really worked for us and we keep on top of it by using the Child’s Farm baby moisturiser.

I’m really careful about fabric softener and washing powder. We can only use certain brands otherwise there is a flare up.

The sun seems to help or little ones skin.