Eczema Treatment Care

Question by bublet: My 5 month old has eczema on face & patches on body.?
Tried everything inc cortisone nothing works. Any sugestions for home remedies or home made ointments? Is affecting his sleeping as he cant stop itching.
We dont use any soaps of fragrences on him or anything that comes into contact with him. We only use Alpha Keri bath oil and moisterisor and occasionaly parafin. The cortisone is only 1% but realy dont like using it so dont think I would increase the cortisone strength. Is deffinatly exzema- started appearing at just 2 days old when still at hospital and only breastfed. Recently spent a week in hopsital for unrelated problems and peads couldn’t offer me any more advice and waiting list for dermatologist in our area is huge…..Thanks for posts so far- any advice is greatly appeciated!

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Answer by Prophet 1102
Are you sure it’s eczema and not simply a rash. Be sure he’s not reacting to some kind of baby lotion/bath wash you’re using. Just use Ivory soap and water for awhile.

Try some A&D Ointment or an ointment with a lot of zinc in it.

The doctors generally prescribe DesOwen creame.

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Question by hopefull: Has anyone tryed FreedermHC for eczema? How can you tell if you have nummular eczema (coin shaped patches)?

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Answer by r4wen
are you sure its not psoriasis? psoriasis starts out like a pimple with a white tip, when you scratch it, the dead skin on top comes off and its red. It will get larger and larger over several days. Sometimes more will pop up around it or somewhere else on the body, usually in the same spot on the opposite arm or leg. Every 30 days a normal persons skin cells reproduce and fall off the skin, when you have psoriasis, your skin cells reproduce every three days, hence the scales form and flake off, and the coin shaped spot gets bigger and bigger, red, itchy and scaley. Its hereditary and curable to an extent. Will never really go away. Not harmful to have this.

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Question by Baba Booey!: Dry red patches on forehead and sideburn area of 3 month old – eczema?
My son is 3 months and has dry, red patches on his forehead and sideburn area. We don’t use soap on his face, we just use water so it is not a reaction. He has had these almost his whole life, sometimes they look better (less red) and then sometimes they get worse. Is this eczema? My doctor said I could try 1% hydrocortizone but that doesn’t help. Any suggestions?

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Answer by AshaLeeD
Thats exactly how my daughters eczema started out. Now (thankfully – kinda) its only on her body and not face. Its going to be a bit of a struggle. Try to bath him every night for about 10-15 mins in luke warm water. Don’t towel or air dry him. With him still wet MOISTURIZE like crazy. I find it works best with my daughter (21 mths old) if i ’switch’ creams every 3-4 weeks. Best ones I’ve found are Aveeno Baby and Glaxxalbase with Glycerine (but thats a persciption, without glycerine works well to, and thats over the counter). Try to keep nails short (my daughter scratched constantly and would not keep the ‘gloves’ on). Dress him in loose and preferably cotton clothes. My doc also said we could use benedryl…but I think unless the itching got uncontrollable I’m going to try not to. plus, we’ve good a good handle on it it seems. I find it gets better in warmer weather…so fingers crossed this summer : ) good luck : )

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Question by Del-icious: Do you know of any good skin cremes or treatments to soothe dry patches associated with Eczema?

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Answer by Lisa
both my children have eczema and it would be red and very itchy…patches…doctor had us use Eucerine cream..found at any walmart or drug store…we didnt use the lotion..it was a round jar of it…i guess the jar kind is thicker…it really worked…helped clear up the dry patches in no time…for really itchy areas…we applied cortisone cream…took the redness out and helped with the itching faster than the eucerine…but cortisone isnt recommended for longer than a 2-3 days..

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She is four months old and is constantly scratching her head.
She has been to the doctor when the rash was only on her face and he said that it was eczema but since she has the same rash/patches on her head and chest and some on elbows.