excema help needed!

my daughter is 18 months and has had a bit of excema around her joints (feet, hands, legs) for about 6 months. been to the doctor and got a steriod cream but doesnt seem to be working that well. I moisturise her after her bath, use all natural bath products and washing detergent.
It seems to have gotten worse lately in the hot weather and i was wondering does anyone have any tips or products they can recommend?
She is scratching heaps and am getting quite worred now.

It's not cheap, but I really recommend trying Xma-Ease. It's a natural cream in a red tube that you can buy from health shops.

My eczema got really really bad at about Christmas time (I've always had it but it flared up something chronic), and I bought this out of desperation as I'd heard good things about it. The eczema on my hands went from raw and itchy and like weeping leather all over my fingers and knuckles, to pretty much gone. Honestly it's disappeared.

Definitely worth a try!

My dughter has bad excema also, i just use hydrocortisone cream aquias cream, however my friends sons is really bad and none of this works, she is trying no dairy as it could be an allergy???

I totally recommend bathing her in Pinetarsol, yes it stinks, BUT it controls the urge to scratch! I bath my daughter in it every day even when she hasn't got excema, just to stop that itchy feeling. I also Pinetarsol Gel as her "soap".

We went to a skin spec and this is what he told me to do, along with applying the numerous creams he gave me to moisturise her skin. She very rarely gets excema nowadays.

thanks for all the suggestions. will def look into them. am taking her on tuesday to get her allergy tested so will see what comes from that.

We all get excema in my family and different things trigger it. In my husband it is cats and a dairy intolerance and pollens. In the kiddies it is products with fragance in them and I am pretty sure they have a dairy intolerance too, and pollen as well. For the kids we use QV excema flare up bath oil and the QV excema flare up cream to control the symptoms. We use hydrocortisone cream if it gets really bad or infected. Our Dr suggested that it is mainly about dry skin so to keep their skin moisturised and not to use any sort of soap, liquid soap can be the worst. You can get soap substitutes at the pharmacy. We have had a lot of success using Am-o-LIn Sensitive Laundry Liquid and doing warm or hot washes. Laundry liquids and powders, because of how they are made these days, don't actually dissolve properly in cold water washes, so doing warm or hot washes is the only way to ensure you don't have any residue on your clothing or towels. That residue, even if you can't see it, is very irritating.

I have found the best thing ever for eczema- i have had it for going on 27 years off and on... i hated all the creams cause the just irratated it even more and i hate it when my excema is wet or sweaty. then my acupuncturist suggested AloE Vera. you can get it straight from the plant or can buy it direct from the chemist. it dries instantly, relieves the heat, stops me scratching. its kept in the fridge so is constantly cold and nice and soothing. i have been using it for nearly two months and you wouldnt even know that i have flare ups!...

ive been using bio oil on charlottes face and find it great.

Renew Moisturising cream for Melaleuca is fantastic for this type of thing. its also all natural and safe for babies. Its