Hi. My 18 month old has excema on her little face. My husband had it pretty bad as a kid and his mom made him drink cod liver oil. Yuk! But it worked. But what do I do for a baby?? I've been using a homeopathic cream but was hoping someone out there has a miracle cure for it!! Thanks!

one of my friends uses eucerin on her child. it worked for him. it's an expensive lotion but it may work for yours too.

Ds has eczema too, and I used to use Stelatopia cream from Mustela, but at 20 bucks a tube, I decided to try Aveeno daily moisturizing lotion, and it had worked the best so far. It's only 4 dollars a tube, and works better then the cortisone!

we use aveeno on my wife and our youngest son he is 2 we've been uusing it sence he was 6mo the doc gave eledel (i think thats sp correct) but the aveeno worked better and he was so bad it broke the skin on his face and behind his knees not the baby aveeno but the adult formula and it also made his skin soft after a bath with the shower gel

I have been using either cortisone cream or what I found that works great unless you miss a day....is the Gentle Naturals Baby Excema Cream. It works quickly too but like I said if you miss a day it goes back to normal, I use it about twice a day.

The creams are all good but there are some other things you can do to help:

Make sure you use non-bio washing powder.
Don't let babies room get too hot. Heat and sweating will make excema worse.
Also don't let it get too dry. If you are central heating, use a humidifier. You can get real cheap ones that just hang over the radiators.
Keep the house as dust free as possible. Dust often makes excema worse.


It's also worth making sure that your baby's excema isn't caused by a food allergy. My DD (7 months) had really bad excema, then when we started solid food we found she was allergic to cows milk. Since I've kept her diet dairy free, and mine dairy free as well (I'm breast feeding and the milk proteins pass through the breast milk!) her excema has improved a lot.

I don't recognise any of the creams mentioned but I assume they are hydrocortisone creams. They are excellent for clearing up a bad patch and then you can maintain the skin with moisturisers. If any patches have got infected (the skin is wet and weepy) then you will need a cream with an antibiotic in as well. We had to use one of those on DD and it cleared up the patch in three days.

Spanish

My 6 month old has excema, we use aquaphor, its an ointment like vaseline

one of my friends uses eucerin on her child. it worked for him. it's an expensive lotion but it may work for yours too.

I use that on my DS--it worked better then the medicated stuff. I used the eucerin calming creme. It is expensive, but a little bit of the thick lotion goes a long way!

The creams are all good but there are some other things you can do to help:

Make sure you use non-bio washing powder.
Don't let babies room get too hot. Heat and sweating will make excema worse.
Also don't let it get too dry. If you are central heating, use a humidifier. You can get real cheap ones that just hang over the radiators.
Keep the house as dust free as possible. Dust often makes excema worse.


It's also worth making sure that your baby's excema isn't caused by a food allergy. My DD (7 months) had really bad excema, then when we started solid food we found she was allergic to cows milk. Since I've kept her diet dairy free, and mine dairy free as well (I'm breast feeding and the milk proteins pass through the breast milk!) her excema has improved a lot.

I don't recognise any of the creams mentioned but I assume they are hydrocortisone creams. They are excellent for clearing up a bad patch and then you can maintain the skin with moisturisers. If any patches have got infected (the skin is wet and weepy) then you will need a cream with an antibiotic in as well. We had to use one of those on DD and it cleared up the patch in three days.

Spanish
i agree with you.i would like to say though that aveeno is a moisturiser. i also would like to add that even in the winter it can get pretty bad because of the heaters that run constent that drys the skin thats when our son has the most probs

I use that on my DS--it worked better then the medicated stuff. I used the eucerin calming creme. It is expensive, but a little bit of the thick lotion goes a long way!yes it is REALLY thick! i've used it before just for my extremely dry skin during the winter and it took forever to rub it all the way in! but the bottle lasted a very long time because you don't have to use very much of it just like you said.