- 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.

The first step a parent should take is focusing on find a treatment that provides maximum relief. When there is less itch, there is less irritation and less likely the appearance of your child’s eczema will get worst.

When your child becomes more aware of their condition, do your best on educating them on what baby eczema is. You don’t have to get real scientific with them, but do tell them that it’s not contagious and that a lot of other kids have it. It is said about 10 – 25% of children have this skin condition, so they are not alone.

My last advise is not to make having eczema a big deal. I’ve seen and heard many parents allow their child’s eczema run their lives. These parents would limit their children’s activity or constantly use it as an excuse to keep their children from playing with other kids, swimming in pools, or playing on a play ground set. I know that some of these parents are looking out for the health of their child, but they are also robbing them of life experiences and turning their child’s eczema into a life limiting crutch.

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.