Dry skin

my 8 week old girl is getting quite a bit of dry skin on her head.

She's got a patch just above her hairline which I'm guessing could be cradle cap. She's also got quite dry, rough skin across her eyebrows and then today her nose looks like I left her outside in a Wellington southerly.

I'm not tooooo concerned about it as it doesn't seem to be bothering her but I was wondering today (when the third patch turned up) if there is something I should be putting on her skin. We shower her about every second day and I just use water and we don't use a moisturiser - mainly because she doesn't like being naked and cries until we get her dressed again.

I'm a bit reluctant as it's her face but I don't want it getting worse. Has anyone else had this and what did you do, what happened??

Yep ditto what Emmi said. DD started with dry skin too and ended up with excema. Got the emmulsfying cream from the dr. its free and you can use it as soap in the bath too. We use it on her face as well as she gets dry cheeks and eyebrows. It's quite greasy but leaves there skin really soft :-)

I've tried the lansinoh on the patch on her eyebrows (the only dry bit at that stage) and that seemed to work but I was a bit worried about using it so close to her eyes. But I don't think I should be covering her whole head in it!!

Have got Plunket tomorrow so will see what the nurse says. But otherwise will head to the Dr if it doesn't get much better.

Bexta, not sure where in Welly you are but my plunket nurse actually was the one that refferred me (well DD) to the eczema clinic at the hospital. We had the choice of going to Welly or Kene (we live in Ngaio) but chose Kene cos the waiting list was 1 month instead of 2... They are amazing!! I would ask for her to put in a referral for you, cos even if you dont need an appointment by the time you get to go its better than needing to go and then having to wait...

We have the same thing happening with DD on her face, and it started about the same time. Doctor diagnosed eczema. We've been prescribed a steriod cream for the worst of it, (she has it under her neck, on her elbows, and ankles too) and are using an emulsifier (Aqueous cream - think you can get this from the pharmacy without a script, but obviously free with one!). Don't know if it's getting better just yet, but we only started the treatment a few days ago, so fingers crossed!

hmm interesting! i hope its not eczema, it is a right PITA!