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| English: This 8 mo. old boy developed eczema vaccinatum after he had acquired vaccina from a sibling recently vaccination for smallpox. Eczema vaccinatum is a serious complication, which occurs in people with atopic dermatitis who come in contact with the vaccinia virus. These individuals are at special risk of implantation of vaccinia virus into the diseased skin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Baby eczema is becoming more common, and it usually appears around 2-6 months – affecting around 20% of infants and young children. Fortunately, it is treatable and most of the population is able to outgrow it. While it can appear anywhere on the body, many people are also affected by it on their scalps.
As a result, the type of cream and shampoo for eczema you choose is very important. Since most baby’s are already born with almost 200 chemicals right out of the womb, their immune systems are very delicate, and you don’t want to add onto this toxic load. It is vital to choose ingredients that are natural and chemical free. It is especially important to pick up the habit of reading labels, as shampoos and lotions can say “natural” but still contain ingredients that aren’t in its purest form.
Here are a few things you can do to cure baby eczema naturally:
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1. Avoid Topical Irritants
Babies immune systems are very sensitive and can easily be irritated by perfumes, dyes, and chemicals in household products, laundry detergents, shampoo, soaps, cream, and clothing material. It is important to switch to all natural and hypoallergenic in order to sooth and cure eczema.
2. Test For Food Allergies
The digestive system of a baby is not fully formed until 2 years old – so it is vital that only healthy, nutritious, and easy to digest foods are fed to babies. Diet is a huge part of triggering eczema. For example, feeding babies gluten before 2 years old are more likely to develop allergies and a lowered immune system.
3. Breastfeed (whenever possible) or choose a high quality infant formula
It is important to breastfeed your baby to reduce eczema and help to strengthen their immune system. If this is not possible, then ensure that you choose a formula that won’t aggravate their digestive system, as this can increase allergies and affect the eczema.
5. Environment
Keep your environment clean: the room temperature should not be too high or overheated, otherwise it can aggravate eczema. Also minimize allergens, asallergic reactions can increase scratching.
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How can I cure baby rash or ezcema?
My baby has rashes all over his body. Sometimes it goes away a little bit then become worst. After a couple of days it goes away and come back again. It started when he was 1 month old. Now, he's 1 year old and the ezcema is still present on his body (from face to feet). The doctor gave him a different ointment to try but still doesn't work. Please help me if you guys have any idea. We also change the milk that he's drinking cause we thought its a milk rash but still doesn't work.
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My son has eczema. I lather him in Johnson Soothing Naturals cream. I place it on around three times a day. I put it on him good when he gets out of the tub. You can't "cure" eczema but you can control it. I would try any lotion that is thicker in texture, it will stay on them better and absorbs better.
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My niece had eczema when she was a baby. Nothing really worked well for her rash either. The rash on her body was not severe but the rash on her face was. Her doctor gave her some tests to see what she might be allergic to. She was allergic to different things but was more severely allergic to dust mites, milk and corn. After they knew what she was allergic to they kept her from drinking/eating things with milk and corn and got special coverings for beds/pillows to help control the dust mites. The results were unbelievable. Her eczema was basically gone. If you are able to get the test done for your baby, you might find that he is allergic to different things. If you know what they are you might be able to get rid of the rash.
Try using dye free and perfume free wash and detergent, switch from scented hair and body soaps for stuff thats free like Cetaphil and Aveeno for Ezcema. We use the Cetaphil moisturing bar soap and cetaphil moisturizing lotion. Our daughter has it on the inside of her elbows and behind her ears, after her bath while skin is still damp we lather lotion all over her and right before bedtime we apply 1% hydrocortizone cream where it is and lay her down for the night, also try cooler baths and moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. We have seen a huge improvement even though it has never gotten that bad, but I hope this helps you. Also try oatmeal baths a few times a week.
Eczema is not curable but most children will outgrow it. The only thing you can do is minimise any possible triggers - these are usually soaps and chemicals in the environment. I am not sure which ointment is the best but we use two for our son (aged 24 months and had eczema since a baby) prescribed by our doctor (Sigmacort and Antrpopil? - can't remember the name of the last one and toddler is sleeping so can't check). Of course all these do is attempt to minimise the irritation.
The doctor told us to be careful of ingredients on anything claiming to be "soap free" - often there are still chemicals in them which are harmful (basically anything that makes bubbles or lather has some sort of soap in it). We buy an organic baby wash that is as pure as you can get (made by Gaia and available in Australia). I use a laundry liquid called "Purity" which is for sensitive skin and supposed to be okay. I don't make him miss out on his daily bath though - it is a ritual he has come to expect and enjoy.
My son's eczema seems to be affected by the weather - the hot weather we are now having has brought it back with avengeance. I don't think there is anything to do with his diet.
Sorry I can't offer a solution - hopefully you can minimise his irritation and make him comfortable.
I have a 2 and a 4 year old who have eczema. It's only on thier faces and the best thing to do is to keep thier skin moisturized. I've tried everything...aquaphor, eucerin, disney baby eczema cream, and aveeno. The best thing and the only thing I use now is cetaphil. They have a entire line of moisturizing cream especially for this problem. Try it. It's great.
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I always here oatmeal (pasty with water) or you can look for oatmeal lotions for baby at the store (regular lotion isle or baby isle). If it is not too late try breast feeding simple (and this is all opinion, not scientific at all) because I hear breast milk helps to immunize (if ezcema is immunizable) alot of things.
My son had really bad diaper rash at 3 days old! We found out he was allergic to the diapers we had him in. Changing diapers fixed that problem. Later he had diaper rash as most kids do. A&D worked wonders.
Have you tried changing bath soap/shampoo and laundry soap?
Some kids are actually allergic to soap itself.
Sometimes they out grow it too.
Have you looked at babycenter.com? There's lots of helpful info there.
With my son I discovered the best way to cure it is with destin a spacial yet cheap cream you can buy at a local store. after you got it just add it over the all the rashes and less than a day it should be gone for good
I don't think you can 'cure' it as such, but you could reduce the severity of the symptoms. Can you try pawpaw lotion on him?
I find pawpaw fixes everything!
My nephew had the same thing when he was little, lucky for him he grew out of it. We use to put hydrocortisone creme on him it always seemed to help.
Try something with aloe in it. That should help.
My son has ezcema and my doctor said to do a couple of things. Don't bathe everyday and when you do bathe DON'T use soaps, use a moisturizing cream. We use a Dove product. Also, don't use lotions, when you use a moisturizer make sure it says cream. Lotions actually pull moisture from deep in your skin to the surface where it will dry out faster. We use Johnson's All Natural. It comes in a green tube. Be careful though because they sell lotion and a cream. Put the cream on after babies bath while he is still damp. For ezcema on the face we use Aquaphor and I have found using that two-three times a day gets rid of it within two days. We also try to keep him in cotton and his bedding in cotton. Our laundry detergent is allergen-free and has been for a couple of years since our dog has skin allergies and we were having to give her injections.
My son only get patches here and there and was diagnosed with this at his 2 week well baby. He is a year old now and he has had less then 10 outbreaks. Watch out for bug bites too. My son got bit by some kinda bug and he reacted terribly his skin broke out all over his arms and legs it was awful.
Good news, babies can outgrow the ezcema. Sometimes they keep it for life but some do outgrow it.
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