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Dealing with Excema |
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by emmysmum  (October 2008) (rank 24th) |
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Re: how do i deal with excema
Asked by wokalota
Question:
hi this is my first question ive put out to everyone so here goes.
my 13 month old has extreme excema and has done since we bought her home from the hospital. the doctor keeps prescribing steriod creams but they do nothing. we have been using all the QV products for bathing, lotion, mosturiser and all that. ive tried every kind of excema creams and i even have my daughter on lactose free milk because she cant have normal milk. her excema is heat related and i cant seem to keep her cool enough to stop it from coming out all over her body.
does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep her cool, how to help her sleep though and stop her from scratching herself till she bleeds. im sleep deprived and her all night screaming from the itch and pain is driving me batty.
My Advice:
Dealing with eczema can often become an agitating experience. As parents we often feel helpless because our children are suffering with this terrible skin allergy and even though we have tried doing what the doctors have said it hasn't seemed to cure the itch.
My son (now almost 8 mos old) suffered terribly with eczema for quite a few months. He could not sleep very well at all and was very irritable when he was awake.
Here are a few things that i did to cure his eczema (he is now rash free).
- Rather than bath him every day, I bathed him every second day. This slowed down the drying out of the skin and allowed his body to keep his natural oils, so that when he was bathed he didn't lose as much oil from his body.
- Even though the QV flare up bath oils are good, I used ROLLED OATS (yes porridge uncooked of course) in a neutral colored stocking. The stocking got slooshed around in the water til the bath was milky color, and then rather than using a face cloth to wash him, i used the stocking to wash him.
- Steroid creams are great....IF THEY WORK!! For my son, they never did. My paediatrician advised me of a STEROID FREE cream called ELIDEL. I got the prescription from my doctor and when it was filled i was so shocked at the price $63.95....but my oh my it was worth every cent. Within 2 days the rash was almost clear.
- AVOID HOT BATHS.... it will irritate the rash. ALSO give only very short baths, say 3 min.... as the chemicals that are in the water (water gets treated with special chemicals in most places) will also irritate the rash.
- AVOID polyester, wool and fleecy objects, as this can make the rash look "agro" and very red.
- FINALLY change bed sheets (or cot sheets) EVERY DAY and also dust and vacuum on a regular occasion.
I hope this advice has helped.
Cheers
