Eczema?
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Topic: Eczema?
Posted By: Kelpa
Subject: Eczema?
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:10pm
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What do you use - find the best for itchy, dry type eczema???? -------------  
 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:27pm
I use Bod for Bubs Bubbaloo Miracle Dry Skin Balm (am gutted to have found it online for $20 after I spent $30 on it  )all over, sorbolene if patches get a bit nasty and if it is really nasty, pimafucort which I get on prescription - it's .5% hydrocortisone with an anti fungal, but I use it sparingly and only on the worst patches. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:32pm
| Lots of emulsifying ointment really often... hydrocortisone if it flares up and then some other crazy ointment over night if it is still red (only have to apply that once every 3 weeks or so if I keep it under control with the emulsifying) |
Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:34pm
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Is exczema a fungal infection?????
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Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 9:36pm
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Where do you get this Miracle balm from?? -------------
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 10:59pm
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I use Lemnis Fatty cream on Benjy. Seems to clear it up super-quick. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 11:33pm
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As best I understood it when I was younger, eczema is not a funal infection - but something like thrush is, for example. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 9:43am
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Eczema is not a fungal infection, it's just like being prone to dry skin. As far as I understand, it's something that's in your genes.. there's different types of eczema though.
I have atopic eczema, which means my skin doesn't have the necessary oils so it goes really dry and itchy. Sometimes it's grown out of, but there's nothing you can do to "cure" it. Just gotta keep moisturing hardout and using something with hydrocortisone to heal really bad patches. Aqueous cream is really good, you can use it as a cream and as a soap substitute. You can get it on prescription from your doc for something like $3 for a huge tub. Also be careful about bathing him for a long time - just like when you wash an oily pan with hot soapy water, it draws the oil right out of it. Same with skin. Even if you put bath oils in, it's coming out at the same time!! If that makes sense.. that's what my doc told me anyway.. Other types of eczema can be caused (or made to flare up) from certain types of food, like dairy. It could also be worth in to looking at your laundy powder if you're not using Persil Sensitive. I recommend going to see your doc about it though, maybe even just mention it next time you're in. Sorry about the essay!! |
Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 9:49am
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Doh! I meant to say it was for me!!!LOL!!Blake doesnt have it ..YET!! Hopefully he has Daddys NO ALLERGY body!
I am sure I have exczema. Worse now. Keep getting it on my hands and I itch myself stupid in the night. I guess any of the above I can use anyway. Not really into strong stuff. -------------
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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 10:09am
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Haha oh sorry, so dont YOU soak in the bath too long!!
It sounds like what I have. It's also made worse with the change in season. Do you have asthma or hayfever? They often go hand in hand. I'm the same, itching myself at night. Drives DH insane. He gives me a little slap to make me stop!! He doesn't seem to understand how gosh darn itchy it is (thinks it's mind over matter), but since using the creams hardout it is better. I get it on my hands too and it's made worse from doing dishes (the hot soapy water) and just from washing my hands often. I've started moisturing hardout every time I wash them. Also I got it bad under my rings cos of a build-up of soap under there, and had to leave them off for a while so it could heal. I feel your itchyness... |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 12:10pm
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I got the Miracle balm from Hardys, its cheaper to buy it online but I'm not sure if they deliver to NZ (I get it delivered to Mum and Dad's)
And nope exczema isn't fungal but it can get a bit icky if it gets nasty so the antifungal in the pimafucort helps to kill any lurking bugs. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 2:53pm
I have it, and Jake has it mildly. I've just been using J and J's lavender bed time moisteriser, or failing that anyhting with lavender and or chamomille in it, I find it takes the sting out of it. And, there was an interesting thread a while ago about urine. And I can say Yep, gross, but it so works, I had it really really bad on my feet....HAD it, notice I said, don't have much bother with it now, only when I wear cheap shoes, then I know what to do... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 2:56pm
| My partner has the same thing but we have found since working outside and letting the sun get to it a bit it has cleared up really well. If its really itchy you can also get this stuff to put in the bath that I remember using when we had chicken pox don't know the name but it stinks and is yellow in a green container. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:32pm
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Eczema isn't fungal but gets bacteria in it which causes more itching which then causes it to spread and itch more... etc etc
So if it is looking even slightly infected, I'd get it seen to as it can do horrible things. (Han's was sooo bad at one point! I felt terrible!) |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:44pm
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If he doesn't have it yet, he'll be fine as excema kids get it worst in the first year. ------------- |
Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 6:26pm
That yellow stuff in a green container is called Pinetarsel 
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