Cures For Eczema

My two and a half year old has severe eczema which covers his body it has been so hard coping with it.Could your doctor refer him to a dermatologist ?I know how much suffering comes with eczema it is worth mentioning.My son was recently allergy tested we have not recieved the results yet but it’s a relief something is being done.He had the allergy test by taking blood from his arm he never felt a thing as he was numbed with a local anesethic first.If he is allergic to something then elimnating that would help.My sons scratching has kept him awake for nights on end.An antihistamine medicine may help in the meantimeit helps my son and can really relieve the itching,talk to your doctor if taking that is suitable as you can get it from the chemist.

keep putting the emollient on four times a day at least and cover him in it,cover him in it before getting in to the bath too and let him soak.My sons dermatologist said it’s best to bathe each day as it keeps the skin soft which will reduce scratching.My son has tubifast garments which are basically leggings and a top kind of like an all over bandage.I put the emollients on and then the garments over the top.It helps the cream sink in more,puts a barrier on the skin to stop breaking skin and causing infection during scartching and it is more comfortable and less messy when you can put normal clothes over the top.You can buy these garments but if you ask your doctor they might consider prescribing them to you.

If you use a steroid cream twice a day and you want his skin to have a break from it wean him from it slowly,once a day then once every other day or the inflammation can just pop back up worse.Hoovering your sons room each day especially the mattress might help as it reduces dust and dust mites which irritate eczema skin.Ask your doctor for a referal if it’s bad then he will be getting the best care by the proffesionals.Good luck and you can email me anytime if you ever want to talk.I’m not an expert but I do know what you are going through.

I agree with the answer above steroid creams are not always the answer but if it’s severe like my sons has been sometimes you have no choice it’s the only way for relief but I really don’t like using them.I was reassured that they are safe to use as long as you follow the fingertip rule.So many fingertips for certain body parts If you don’t know how many I will copy it out for you from the paper I was given.

my daughter gets it very bad on the bottems of her feet and inbetween her toes, to the point where the skin in the toes cracks and bleeds. the thing that worked best for us was to bathe her at night and slather her feet with cortizone creme then put socks on her so the cream didnt wipe off every time she took a step. it was something we had to repeat everyday but it stopped the bleeding and itching.

I know that I had very terrible eczema as a young child – I remember crying in pain and scratching so bad, that I could see how it upset my mother. Like your son, I didn’t find any relief in any of the prescribed creams or treatments suggested by pediatricians or dermatologists. In fact, pretty much the only relief I ever found was in oatmeal baths!

I know it sounds silly, and clean up is a bit dreadful, but they really did work. It soothed my skin and made me feel better, and although it was hardly a cure – it did reduce it slightly, and the creams sort of did the rest.

You use unflavoured oatmeal – instant, or slow, or whatever. Blend about a cup of it until it’s like grain, and mix it with warm water in the tub. It makes the bath go sort of milky, but be sure to make sure it mixes it up because it kind of goes clumpy. Your little one will probably find it very funny that he’s taking a bath in breakfast, and you can make it funny for him.

It’s important that this bath is a /soak/, not just an in and out. The skin really needs to asborb it and get the most it can from it. When he’s out of the tub, pat them off instead of rubbing them dry, you want the skin to keep as much of it as it can.

Make sure you’re not ‘undoing’ the benefit by not using very sensitive lotions or shampoos or creams, because they can upset eczema. I could never use the ‘regular’ stuff, I always had to have special stuff. I find that Aveeno works very well to keep my skin from any flare ups.

Food is also important, sweets and chocolates can exasperate eczema. Look online to see what foods might be making him flare up.

BE EXTRA VIGILANT – this makes baths slippery, let your little one know that he absolutely must not stand up, and be very close by.

With any luck, he’ll grow out of it like I did!

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Hi,

Sounds like the skin reactions are very very similar to what I was having two to three years ago right after I had poisoned my liver with too much toxic micro-nutritional supplements for too long – when I never even considered it was toxic. After the poisoning was identified I began having severe Urticaria allergic reactions to foods meds creams and my own sweat and who knows what other toxins, while my weakened immune system would then also promote fungal infections. I eventually learned to make the right organic nutritional choices that allowed my organs and immune system to rebuild and recover.

Poor quality and/or low cost micro-nutrition that easily weakens one’s immune system, will cause/ allow/ promote diabetes types of fungal infections and itch rash diseases and almost any other disease, even if one might be very very young or has never been ‘overweight.’

IF YI – my own skin-Urticaria issues have cost about $ 2,500 in the last three years to learn what I now know – which is that ALL skin diseases are strongly related to one’s micro-nutrition and/or toxic absorption and/or hygiene and/or parasites.

Since doctors were not very helpful and it ‘almost’ took too long to learn what I now try to teach others, I now take a little time each week to help others understand the need for non-toxic and ‘adequate’ micro-nutritional absorption in the gut AND for good hygiene – which will then prevent or minimize every ‘dis-ease’ I am aware of.

My easily triggered allergic reactions continually cause small water blisters under the top layer of skin along with skin fevers and pruritus itches and also rashes and then long term scaling. When my malady was at its worst – I used to have allergic itches to my own sweat that I was burning off after showering or during exercise or when parts of my body got hot – during a time in my life when I used to have considerable toxins stored within my body fat, along with a ‘very’ weakened immune and filter systems that could/would not ‘elminate’ these strong toxins into a stool.

Monistat_7 and Desenex are moist-area anti-fungals and Monistat_Derm and Head_&_Shoulders are also anti-fungals, but you really need to see an MD and do more internet research to better understand how difficult it is for an MD to diagnose serious skin maladies. Use meds that are prescribed in a very-minimal way so that your body’s immune system’s and skin/ organs can repair and grow stronger, which will then prevent reoccurrences in the future. After I began using a very thin petrolatum based skin cream I inadvertently used too much until I was in the ER with severely swollen lymph glands, that made me think I might have contracted lymphoma.

Since when I was an asthmatic teen and learned I would have severe reactions when I ‘accidentally’ inhaled or used ‘any’ deodorants, and could not eat cinnamon stuff without having an anaphylactic reaction – because cinnamon has some toxins that are strong enough to substitute for pesticides, my life long triggers have taught me to use hypo-allergenic non-perfumed soaps in a minimal way and to sometimes powder different portions of my body with cornstarch to help minimize yeast infections; especially whenever my micro-nutritional absorption within my gut has been less than was ‘necessary’ to ‘adequately’ repair my body’s immune system, organs, and skin on a daily basis.

I eventually learned that itching or rashes are symptoms of maladies that could become much worse if not healed with better non-toxic and more ‘dense’ micro-nutritional choices. FYI – The most nutritionally dense foods that have been documented by the USDA are predominately found within the very expensive calories from leafy green vegetables.

Even though I might not have answered your question as ‘specifically’ as you may have wanted, to help you with simple and concise information on ALL itch rash illnesses and for short and long term solutions to them ALL – the following link has considerable info within a ‘report’ I recently posted on Y_A:

<> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091113104039AAbnGet <>

The report at qid=20091113104039AAbnGet is an accumulation of my own investigations into itch rash illnesses that are due to my own non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, even though I have a fairly low BMI of 26.

Finally, because I am not an MD who could diagnose you ‘personally,’ I feel I should add that although I have seen that most root problems for ‘skin’ issues for myself and others has usually ‘always’ been from long and or short term allergic reactions to ‘something’ or poor hygiene COMBINED WITH a weakened lymph liver kidney skin and immune systems – IF the following symptoms would ever occur – I ‘think’ the worst rash one might possibly have quickly acquired is from deadly bacterial meningitis, ALTHOUGH bacterial meningitis would be VERY RARE.

The two quotes below are from: <> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_Meningitis <>

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“IF a rash is present, it may indicate a particular cause of meningitis; for instance, meningitis caused by meningococcal bacteria may be accompanied by a characteristic rash.”
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“The MOST common symptoms of meningitis are headache and neck stiffness associated with fever, confusion or altered consciousness, vomiting, and an inability to tolerate light (photophobia) or loud noises (phonophobia). SOMETIMES, especially in small children, only nonspecific symptoms may be present, such as irritability and drowsiness.”
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For further details see: <> http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/about/faq.html <>

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I truly truly hope that what you might rapidly learn in the next few minutes will help you to decide on the correct choices that will remedy your painful malady in the future.

My best to you and yours,

AI – self taught nutritionIsT >< +>[(-:]

PS – IF YI – the nutrition info I have learned is posted at: <> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091101184933AA0kQ63 <>.