Eczema Support Group

We use 100% pure coconut oil or olive oil at night before putting pj's on. Try them each separately and see if you notice a difference.

We found out our daughter has a zinc deficiency. The doctor also prescribed Loratadine and Hydroxyzine, both oral, for the itching. Along with Trimycolone ointment. Her skin is very clear, it took only 3 months for full results. (Sorry for my spelling.)

There's a possibility she has food allergies. Milk is a HUGE eczema culprit in babies and children. You need to focus more on her insides than on her outsides right now. Get her on probiotics and a baby fish oil supplement ASAP to clear the inflammation. Lavish botanical products has really good baby stuff and eczema products that are totally natural. Stop using the eucerin, Aveeno and grocery store crap! Its not natural and its not good! Trust me. Here's some links for you to look at. They will help you tremendously. Good luck!

http://www.lavishproducts.com/?x=v...

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We have taken her to a homeopathic doctor and she has been off of wheat/gluten/dairy/yeast. We have seen NO improvement. It's really sad and frustrating. I can't open the links to Lavish you sent through :(
Thanks for the advice; I will try to find the Lavish products.

Are you still breast feeding your daughter? Pro-biotics are usually helpful when your child is so young, taken in the mornings before eating, there has been scientific research that supports this, try getting on Google and do some research about this,. It has to be a product that is suitable for infants also, ask at your pharmacy. Do you notice a correlation between how your daughters skin is and how her digestion is. I.e. has she been constipated or had diarrhea or had both?. Are you sticking to plain foods or is there processed foods she is having? In my experience there is a direct relationship between digestive function (which is different to food intolerance's) and how the skin is. I also had a friend who discovered it was a particular oil, canola I think that was upsetting her daughters skin, something like this is very hard to discover. Good luck, any questions please just ask.

Hey there,

My son also started to get very bad eczema at about that age. Basically when he stopped get immunity from me and his own immune system kicked in the problems started. I was breastfeeding and suspected it might be caused by the foods I eat. Dermatologist after dermatologist told me to eat what I like and just lay on the steroid creams. No real improvement.

Finally, at 13 months when he had a severe allergic reaction we saw a paediatric immunologist (one of the best in Australia) who finally told us that the food was indeed causing the problem - allergic reactions and eczema. As I would have to dramatically restrict my diet so as to help him they advised that I stopped breastfeeding, which I did. He was put on a prescription formula called neocate - basically a formula with zero allergens and he started an elimination diet. An elimination diet is something you have to do with a dietician's supervision. Basically the diet gets cut way back and you re-introduce foods gradually to see which ones are causing the problem.
They also advised us on how to care for his skin. We used aqueous ointment, applied by wetting your hands and rubbing the cream into your palm to soften it and then, very softly, applying it onto your babies skin. This is best done after a bath. Bath's should be as lukewarm or just a little warm water. After you apply the cream leave baby naked for 10 minutes and then dress. Never rub hard it in hard, it breaks the skin. When it is very bad, you apply the moisturiser, then your steroid cream and wrap the affected area - one layer of wet bandages followed by one layer of dry on top. We used tubular bandages (bit tricky to find, we got them from the hospital pharmacy, but online I've read of people just using cotton sheets torn up). Once, when it was very bad, a dermatologist advised us to use the aqueous ointment, then the steroid cream (advantan I think) then wrap the area in glad wrap for 5 minutes. That really worked, but its pretty hard core and I wouldn't do it without doctors advise.
Now he is loads better. I'm too lazy to use aqueous ointment, so I use aqueous cream which is quicker to apply (don't need to prep with water). We don't need the bandages anymore either. (He's 3 1/2 now)
Apart from food, things like washing powder, scented creams, my perfumes etc caused problems. So basically go bland and basic - washing powder for sensitive skin and washed in hot (not warm) water for clothes, linen etc. I used all unscented, sensitive skin type products.
Usually, doctors will tell you that when it is all flared up you need to hit it hard to break the cycle, then ease off when the condition improves.
Having eczema could also indicate that your little one will have allergies, so I would be careful about how you introduce foods, particularly nuts and the like.
Best of luck with it.
KorrinaC