baby with eczema :(

HI there

My 12 week old had quite bad dry eczema on his chest and the poor wee thing is scratching at it all the time, makes me feel so sad :( I have tried SO many things.aqeous cream caused a reaction I think, tried sudocream, weleda oil , almond oil etc etc. Anyone have any tips on how to soothe it and heal it?

thanks :)

My friends little boy has an eczema on his chest neck area & has got emollient cream from the Dr & that has worked reducing it. Dr's also don't tend to give out aqueous cream any more as babies have been reacting to it.

Apparently it's a common thing with babies getting on their chests.

I would go to your GP. They can prescribe something better than aqueous cream, We got Cetamocrogol cream, a massive tub of it!. It has worked wonders with DDs skin. It is a really thick fatty cream.

It turned out that DD had an intolerance to dairy, only really discovered at 12 months when I stopped BFing and tried her on cows milk. Since I have eliminated dairy from her diet her skin has hardly flared up at all. May be worth looking into.

Agree with looking at food intollerance. I didn't realise my girl's eczema was caused by wheat until she was well into eating solids and I realised she flared up after wheatbix. We both stopped eating wheat (I was BFing) and it went away completely within days. She is 3 now and can eat anything with no reaction :)
If you're breastfeeding perhaps you could try not eating wheat and dairy for 2 weeks and then introducing one back, seeing if she reacts, then the other?

Also, I found that if we bathed her often (no matter what products we used, often no bath products at all) then her eczema would flare up due to her skin getting dry (we used all sorts of moisturisers), but if we bathed her every 2nd or 3rd day her skin stayed nice with her natural baby oils.

ETA; we also changed from Surf Sensitive washing powder to Amolin and that helped. I don't think you can get Amolin any more, we use Ecostore liquid now.

Edited by Chickoin

Would be interested to see if the 'pot of gold' cream works!

I'm formula feeding so a little hard..I could put him onto a soy formula but I don't think it's recommended for under 6 month olds and I don't know if that is even the problem!

It got better on Sunday but has flared up again now :(

Also I find it this heat it gets bad, so make sure that you are only putting natural fibres on her and giving her lots of breathing time, we find pinetarsol which you can get on prescription helps keep in the oils and helps with itching.

if it is eczema, i can help with a cream that is not a prescribed one or a pharmaceutical one with no side effects and guaranteed to work. please pm me using the link below

Edited by dipz

RG wrote: Hi - google Rhino Repair Cream. Its fantastic and safe for little ones. All natural

Really? I will try.

we had an eczema baby too. she developed it around 9 mths and it lasted all winter, and is now coming back a little unfortunately. We tried a whole bunch of things, and what worked for us was:
hydrocortisone of course, except we disliked using it too much and would only use it when a patch got bad.
No soap - used a goat's milk soap, Bille Goat Baby which is an australian product developed by a mum whose kids had eczema.
Pinetarsol helps to reduce redness & general irritation, but didn't do much when things were bad
Derma cream, which is a medical manuka honey-based cream from Comvita - really good at dealing to milder patches that didn't warrant hydroC, and a good general moisturiser and soother.
Like others have said, natural fabrics and not letting them get too hot - we discovered she was overheating in her core, and while others would be surprised and a bit disapproving at the relatively few layers she had on over winter, we knew she was warm enough and that it kept her rashes down.
Be careful of baths that are too hot, and fires or heaters as they can dry skin out a lot.

There is a branch on here for allergies, intolerances and eczema too, might be worth having a dig around there.

We tried a lot of the things mentioned above, and didn't have much luck with them TBH.

Some reading if it interests you about her daughter and eczema

http://www.betterbods.co.nz/about.html