Treat Baby Eczema

Skin protection is very vital in the cold months of the year. Believe or not, babies are very prone to heat rashes and harsher eczema flare-ups.

Wait…Did I just say Heat Rashes in the Winter?!

Yes! It is a know fact that children can develop heat rashes because some parents pile layers of clothing on them to make sure they are really warm. I for one am guilty of this crime. Being a loving parent, you can’t help it that you want to take the extra precaution to keep your child safe and comfortable. But sometimes as it turns out, we can do more harm than help. Another thing parents must be aware of is that the dry warm air circulating in their home can also add to the cause of the heat rash and baby eczema flare-ups. The dry warm air can dry out your child’s skin, which leads to the itching and scratching, which then leads to a heat rash or an eczema flare up.

If your child develops either of these conditions, dressing them in loose-fitting cotton clothing and avoiding over-bundling. Another thing I’ve found helpful was using a humidifier. I am an advocate of using a humidifier that automatically kills bacteria. The two I like using are the Vicks Pure Mist Humidifier and the Honeywell QuietCare UV Humidifier Tower. Lastly, as I’ve mentioned many times in my previous post, keeping your baby’s fingernails trimmed.  Continuous scratching of the infected areas can lead to secondary infections. And it seem that nothing great every comes out of seeing your child suffer from an infection.

Like always, talk to your doctor or pediatrician before diagnosing your child’s skin condition and finding the right treatments.

Thanks to a Special Friend, Here is a very simple and straight to the point video on How to Treat Baby Eczema. Enjoy! Warning: The Audio is very low, so Remember to re-adjust your volume after you view the video.

Beat Eczema eBook is proabably one of the greatest resources I’ve been exposed to when it comes to treating baby eczema. I first discovered this book when a friend of mine suggested this book to expand my knowledge on this hampering disease. Not only did it give informative explanations on the root causes and effects eczema has on infants, but it gave me simple easy to follow step by step instructions on eliminating eczema in Weeks!

Additionally You will Learn  How to:

• Stop Your Baby’s Irritating Itching
  
• Help Your Child Sleep Pain Free
  
• Eliminate Dry Skin
  
• Activate the Body’s Natural Healing Powers

What I was extremely impressed with the section about the section on Natural Healing. Natural ways of healing are becoming more popular  because the ever growing cases of patients being misdiagnosed and receiving the wrong medications with then leads to harsher health conditions. That not a case you want your child to be a part of.

Click Here to Visit the Official Beat Eczema Site.

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How to stop the itchingHow to eliminate dry skin forever

There are many avenues a parent can take to find the right baby eczema treatment. Each treatment has its pro’s and cons but each can help combat the itching, inflammation, and discharges associated with this very uncomfortable and disheartening condition. These baby eczema treatments have been designed to reduce inflammation, moisturize your baby’s skin, and help suppress severe baby eczema flare ups. And just as a reminder, these treatments can not permanently cure baby eczema.

General baby eczema treatment comes in many forms: moisturizers, itch-relief medication, corticosteroids, immunomodulators, antibiotics, light therapy, diet monitoring, and gene therapy. Each of these treatments specializes in targeting particular symptom or aspect of the disease. None the less, I don’t recommend using all these treatment for your baby’s skin. But the following is my list of baby eczema treatments that worked for my child and ones I highly recommend.

My Recommend Best Baby Eczema Treatment: Moisturizers

I am a huge advocate of moisturizing your baby’s skin with a moisturizer that contains natural Vitamin E. Moisturizers come in many different forms such as Emollients, Creams, Ointments, Soaps, and Lotions. These types of moisturizers promote and help the skin retain its natural moisture.  Moisturizers are said to be the single most important and effective health-care Eczema treatment in existence.

My #2 Recommended Baby Eczema Treatment: Diet Monitoring

I found that monitoring my baby’s diet as a form of eczema treatment worked wonders. I found this to be highly effective because this treatment helped me remove allergen foods from my child’s diet that triggered harsh eczema flare ups. Diet Monitoring requires a lot of your attention and calls for you to be very discipline. Without discipline, this treatment can have no effect.

Combining my recommended baby eczema treatment #1 and #2 brought major relief to my son. I personally didn’t have go further than these treatments to help me solve this baby eczema treatment search.

Now the next list of baby eczema treatments are treatments I’ve tried but experienced limited success. I’m exposing this list just in case you have already tried my top 2 recommendations and didn’t experience the excellent results my son had. This list is in no particular order and I strongly suggest you talk to your doctor or pediatrician and do more research on these treatments before you consider using any of them.

Other Eczema Treatments:

Antihistimines – Helps reduces itching during an Eczema flare-up.

Antibiotics  -  This baby eczema treatment will help fight off infections, should one of your baby’s open wounds get infected.

Capsaicin – Helps counteracts the itching by mitigating the body’s itch signals.

Light therapy (Not Recommended and Mainly for Adult Eczema) – This treatment exposes ultraviolet light on PUVA, UVB, and/or Narrow Band UVB to combat the symptoms of Eczema.

Photo-ChemoTherapy (Not Recommended and Mainly for Adult Eczema) -  this treatment combines efforts of light therapy and a drug called Psoralen to combat the symptoms of Eczema.

Gene Therapy (Not Recommended and Mainly for Adult Eczema) – This treatment is still fairly new and extremely expensive.

Whatever baby eczema treatment you choose, please consider all the pros and cons and talk to a qualified health professional for any questions you may have.

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.

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Watching my son suffer through baby eczema was a heart wrenching and helpless experience. He was only 2 months old when he got his first major breakout. My son had his baby eczema on both sides of his face, a tiny patch on his left elbow and a little area on his back. On his monthly check ups, I would ask our pediatrician if there was any type of cure or treatment for this disease. She explained that there is no cure currently available and I that I could only ease some of the itchy symptoms.

Some of the early advice I was given to treat my son’s baby eczema was to keep his face moisturized and clean, make sure he doesn’t scratch the infected areas, and make sure that I avoid him from over heating and sweating. These steps did have a little effect on my son’s skin condition but it didn’t last too long. So I decided to try some of the popular over the counter baby eczema creams like hydrocortisone. When hydrocortisone stopped working, I gave in and tried some of the prescription creams and ointments containing stronger corticosteroids. BIG MISTAKE… because my son suffered some of the side effects of using these prescription creams and ointments! I’ve learned that some of the side effects of using corticosteroids can lead to even more itching and burning, acneiform eruption, growth retardation and delayed weight gain.

Learning from this painful experience, I decided to do my own research on ways to treat baby eczema. What I found was both very enlightening and very shocking. The thing that was very enlightening was that treating baby eczema really came down to a handful of factors. Two major factors to treating this disease are reducing your baby’s pain and stress naturally. One of the best tips I’ve found useful was eliminating a lot of the preservatives and artificial colorings from my son’s and I diets because they are found to be the most common foods that causes baby eczema.

What I found shocking is that a lot of pediatricians and doctors don’t mention the natural alternative to treating baby eczema. So I urge all mothers and fathers who have a child who suffers from baby eczema to do there own research and look into natural ways of treating this life hampering disease.