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Help, excema!
Hi girls, apologies in advance for the essay 
My little lad has excema, he's had it for a while on the back of his knees and recently he has started getting it on his stomach. He's seen the doctor who has prescribed hydrocortisone for when he has a flare up, and diprobase to use the rest of the time. This did seem to be working until recently when, stupidly, we started washing the lo's stuff with ours in bio washing powder. He is obviously sensitive to this as his stomach suddenly got much worse, took us a week or two to work it out though as in the mean time I had bought new body suits which we used without washing so when he was wearing those he didn't get any worse. Have now swopped his washing powder and it's slowly getting better but the last few nights have been awful. He normally sleeps through from 7.30 till 5.30, has a feed and then goes back till 7.30-8ish. Last night he woke up at 3, we left him 5 mins to see if he would settle as he was shouting not crying, then he started screaming hysterically so I went in to find him obviously uncomfortable, clawing at the front of his sleeping bag trying to scratch himself. I gave him some calpol in case that would help, fed him to distract him while the calpol was working and settled him back down, he woke up again at 6, same thing but without the calpol but he wouldn't settle then so he, and I, and his big sister are having a very grumpy sort of a day Does anyone have any idea what I can do to help him sleep more comfortably, last night was the third night like that. Wondered about trying medised to see if the antihistamine might help with the itching but then I read that it can CAUSE excema so I'm thinking not. Going to take him back to the doctor next week but I'd be really grateful for any suggestions in the mean time.
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My little lad has excema, he's had it for a while on the back of his knees and recently he has started getting it on his stomach. He's seen the doctor who has prescribed hydrocortisone for when he has a flare up, and diprobase to use the rest of the time. This did seem to be working until recently when, stupidly, we started washing the lo's stuff with ours in bio washing powder. He is obviously sensitive to this as his stomach suddenly got much worse, took us a week or two to work it out though as in the mean time I had bought new body suits which we used without washing so when he was wearing those he didn't get any worse. Have now swopped his washing powder and it's slowly getting better but the last few nights have been awful. He normally sleeps through from 7.30 till 5.30, has a feed and then goes back till 7.30-8ish. Last night he woke up at 3, we left him 5 mins to see if he would settle as he was shouting not crying, then he started screaming hysterically so I went in to find him obviously uncomfortable, clawing at the front of his sleeping bag trying to scratch himself. I gave him some calpol in case that would help, fed him to distract him while the calpol was working and settled him back down, he woke up again at 6, same thing but without the calpol but he wouldn't settle then so he, and I, and his big sister are having a very grumpy sort of a day
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to help him sleep more comfortably, last night was the third night like that. Wondered about trying medised to see if the antihistamine might help with the itching but then I read that it can CAUSE excema so I'm thinking not. Going to take him back to the doctor next week but I'd be really grateful for any suggestions in the mean time.xxx
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A friend of mine uses calamine lotion on her excema (as well as what she was prescribed by the doc) and it really works for her. Im not sure if its baby safe though. xx
My Lo is 16months now and just getting better, but he used to be bright red and itchy all over. HV I found were so much better then dr, they prescribe differernt things. A cxream called doublebase works for my son as well as Johnsons Aveeno cream (which I think you can get over the counter).
Other than that I can only use fairy non bio, everything else sets his skin off and no softener as it outs an extra layer on clothes that can cause itchyness.
Hope this helps and you get a good night . x
I've already stopped using softener on his clothes as I know you mentioned on another post it can make excema work, at the minute we are using Persil non-bio with aloe vera which seems to be ok for him.
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I don't really have any good advice for the eczema as my lo only suffers with dry skin sometimes (so use E45 after her bath). Oatmeal baths are supposed to be good for dry skin. Put some oatmeal in a (clean!) pair of tights then hang over the hot water tap so the oatmeal infuses in the water. Never tried it myself (don't have any tights!) but have used an oatmeal mask on my face once from Lush and it was fantastic. Made my skin really smooth.
Not sure if that's helped at all!!!
Hope he improves soon. Fibrocet is best for us! The excema went from open, weeping sores about 3inch big to nice smooth skin in days!!!
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I use various steroid creams and they all work to control flare ups. The ONLY moisturiser I can use is Aqueous cream which I also use as soap. Even plain water drys my skin so as soon as I've washed my hands I have to moisturise and do this several times a day.
Your right about using non-bio and softner is a definite no no. The most common cause of exzema is dust mites and you can buy spray treatments for mattresses and pillows to kill them. I'm not sure though if they are baby safe. I also wash my bedding on a 90 degree wash to kill any on them.
Also naked time is good for them as the air helps to clear it up. I always get a bit better in the summer when I'm in the sun but obviously wear high factor sun lotion - I use kids ones as again anything else makes me itch.
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