Treat Baby Eczema

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One of the most effective baby eczema treatments I’ve personally used is using Certified Organic Shea Butter as an eczema moisturizer. Certified Organic Shea Butter is loaded with the healthy skin nourishing vitamins A, E, and F. These 3 vitamins have been proven to improve many harsh skin conditions that millions face each day. Certified Organic Shea Butter, specifically,  has been used and seen to be a highly effective treatment for eczema, burns, psoriasis, rashes, severely dry skin, stretchmarks, wrinkles, and more. But from my personal experience it help lessen the irritation of my child’s skin, kept my baby’s skin very moisturized, and seem to enhance the healing process when my child was recovering from bad eczema breakouts.

Driven by curiosity, I did more research into the benefits of certified organic shear butter and here is what I’ve found. Shea Butter Benefits include:

• Help control eczema flare ups
• Helps heal minor burns
• Offers sun and wind protection
• Reduces blemishes and scarring
• Helps prevent stretch marks during pregnancy
• Reduces razor irritati0n
• Helps eliminate scalp irritation due to dryness or chemical processing
• Soften tough skin
• Helps even skin tone

As you can see from the benefits, certified organic shea butter is widely used not only on children, but on adults as well. But like every eczema treatment there are some draw backs. One of biggest warnings on using shea butter is that it is not recommend for use to people who have major allergic reactions to nuts. But like always, consult your doctor or your child’s pediatrician before trying any type of eczema treatment on your child.

I strongly suggest that if any parent is contemplating about allowing your child to use protopic ointment to treat their baby eczema, Please Consider The Risk!

First off this protopic ointment was not created for children under the age of 2. Secondly, to even consider using this eczema cream you have had to try almost all the available eczema treatment on the market because Protopic Ointment and its competitor Elidel Cream are considered the very last treatment you should try when all other treatments have failed. There is good reasoning behind this. Let considered the side effects:

- Viral infections: Protopic Ointment may increase the chance of getting chicken pox, shingles, skin warts, or other viral infections.

- Skin irritation: Protopic Ointment’s most common side effects are stinging, soreness, a burning feeling, or itching of the skin where you apply the ointment.

- Headache and flu-like symptoms.

- Increased chance of developing skin cancer and lymphoma.

Just looking at the last possible side effect will tell you why Protopic Ointment should be considered the last choice for eczema treatment. Protopic ointment is another form of treatment that puts you and your child’s health as risk for temporary relief. I believe this is another reason why the FDA puts its highest black box warning on this product. And like its counterpart, Elidel Cream, there are still unknown long term effects for using Protopic Ointment.

But I truly believe parents shouldn’t get this far down the eczema treatment line. There are more cases and more research that comes out and points to more natural treatments to treat baby eczema. For starters, read my post about moisturizing your babies skin with the correct moisturizer here.

Before using the ever so popular Elidel Cream to treat your child’s eczema, be sure to educate yourself on what it is and what are some of the side effects of using it. So here is a quick run down…

First off, Elidel Cream is a very popular and widely used prescription cream for people above the age of 2 for treating mild to moderate cases of eczema. The Elidel Cream is classified as an immunomodulator which suppresses the body’s immune system to treat eczema symptoms such as itchiness, redness and cracked skin.

Elidel is said to be steroid-free and has many other benefits such as:
-Can be applied anywhere on the skin-including the face, neck, and around the eyes.
-Doesn’t cause thinning of the skin, stretch marks, skin discolorationk and spider veins.
-Odor-free, non greasy cream that is the skin can absorb quickly and easily.

These are definitely great benefits but there are always two side to every prescription. In 2006 the FDA (Food and Drug Adminstrations) gave the Elidel Cream its highest and strongest warning, the big bad black box warning. A Black Box Warning issued by the FDA usually indicates that the perscribe drug carriess a significant risk of serious or even life-threating effects.

To start off here is a list of side effects Elidel list on there own website:
- warmth or burning when applied
- headaches
- sore throat and cough
- viral skin infections.

Now Here is a short list of possible side effects that Elidel Cream presents that may have earned it The Black Box Label.
- Skin cancer
- lymphoma
- long term safely is unknown.

There are mixed reviews on Elidel Cream and I’m certainly not a parent who is willing to risk my child’s health on  these side effects. I encourage parents to educate themselves on alternative ways of treatment as doctors and researchers say that Elidel Cream should be a very last option of treating baby ezema.

Elidel Cream has been prescribed to millions of eczema sufferers. But Does the Risks outweigh the Benefits. You Decide.

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Dry skin is very common in baby eczema and is the leading cause for itchiness. This itchiness leads to scratching, which leads to open sores, which then can lead to nasty infections. I can speak from experience that you do

not want your child to get a skin infection. It can be one of the most scariest, heart wrenching, and stressful experience you and your child can go through. Just the thought of seeing your child deal with the pain and the uncertainly of whether they can recover from this conditions should bring chills to your body.

This situation can be prevented by simply by keeping your baby’s skin moisturized. Using just moisturizing lotions may not be suffice to keep their skin adequately hydrated. Baby creams or ointments that help keep the skin lubricated may be needed instead. Creams and ointments are more dense than lotions and create a lubricating layer over the skin, thus preventing the loss of moisture. My child’s skin reacted much better with natural

creams than it did with the manufacture popular creams. I’ve also learned that moisturizing my child’s skin after a bath was the best time to apply.

There are a multitude of great creams available on the market. I personally prefer the California Baby Line.

But if you don’t, just be sure you follow my recommendations on selecting a baby cream. Also reread my post about the dangerous ingredients found in baby products.

Lastly, in order for this treatment to work, you should moisturize your child’s skin every day and apply it all over the body for maximum effect. Please refrain from over applying the cream. It can get messy and you can end up having baby cream or ointment stains all over your furniture.

Should you have any question please feel free to leave me a comment or even better, talk to your child’s pediatrician. Happy Parenting!

Moisturizing the infected area of your baby’s eczema is a very important step in providing relief for your child. To provide such great relief, you need to pick the right baby eczema cream. And Remember… “Not All Baby Eczema Creams are Created Equal.”  Like any other baby product on the market, there are some that really work and there are others that absolutely don’t do a thing and/or gives your baby some harsh side effect. I’ve personally haven’t tested or reviewed all the baby eczema creams available. But, what I can help you with is identifying the best baby eczema cream for your baby.

First off, the reality of a baby eczema cream is this… A certain cream can work beautifully for someone else child and not work for yours. The reason could be one of many factors like genetics, environment, diet, etc. This is the main reason why I haven’t given you a list of my recommended baby eczema creams. But that list will be coming soon. In the mean time I want to share with you the things I personally look for in a Cream for baby eczema.

The 1^st thing I look for in a baby eczema cream is that it must contain Natural Vitamin E. To identify Natural Vitamin E, look for tocopheryl acetate or d-alpha tocopherol in the ingredients of section of the product.   If you see DL-Tocopherol or DL- tocopheryl acetate, I recommend you don’t buy the product because DL-Tocopherol is a cheaper synthetic replacement for natural vitamin E. The Human body absorbs and retains Natural Vitamin E better that its cheap counterpart.

The 2^nd thing I look for in a baby eczema cream is that it must be unscented or doesn’t contain an ultra heavy perfumed scent to it. My #1 reason for this is that some scented creams contain chemicals that can potentially irritate your baby’s skin and trigger eczema flare ups. Good smelling skin is nice but moisturized un-irritated skin is even better.

The last thing I look for in a baby eczema cream is that it must not contain any steroids. This is just my preference. If your doctor or pediatrician strongly recommends steroids, then I suggest you listen to them. But what I found is that a lot of baby eczema cases don’t require the use of steroids. Some of the side effects for using steroids are: Growth suppression, discoloration of skin, Adrenal suppression, allergic reactions, and more. I personally couldn’t put my child at risk for these side effects for this steroid solution that doesn’t cure eczema.

Well, I hope you find this helpful for your search for the right baby eczema cream. If you would like to more tips and detailed info about baby eczema, I urge you to sign up for my free report.