Try Baby Aquaphor by Eucerin! Excellent item to have around the house!! It is great for irritated skin and great for diaper rash. It also helps prevent rashes.
Hi Tabitha. I am a medical professional with some experience in the field of dermatology. I have some ideas for you and your son. If it is dry skin, make sure he is only getting a bath 2-3 times/week MAX. It doesn't have to be with soap either. Frequent bathing really dries out babies skin. Gently blot the bath water off with a towel and apply lotion while he is a bit damp. Secondly, it could be something called seborrheic dermatitis..kind of like patches of dandruff (rough, dry, flaky skin). There is no know cause and very common starting at 2-3 months in children. You can treat this with head and shoulders shampoo and gentle (soft brush/toothbrush) exfoliation on the patches. The most common areas affected are forehead (above the eyebrows and eyebrows), scalp, and cheek area (by the nose). This can be treated with a non-steriodal cream from your PCP or derm doc. It also could be contact dermatitis...allergic cause? Possible triggers: his soap, laundry detergent (ALL free is a good brand to try), your laundry detergent/soap etc. There are many possibilites for all of this. Try to be patient and make sure you see a dermatologist if his patches don't resolve or are getting worse. I would advise against any steriod cream (hydrocortisone) on the face as it can have a rebound effect and irritate him even more...Good luck with everything. I hope he will be fine soon! Rebecca
either eucerin or aquafor which you can get at any store or a lotion called renew that you can order through melaleuca (online) - my kids and myself have extreme dry skin and it helps. melaleuca is a co with all natural products that are great for the skin and people with allergies. good luck
Vaseline, several times a day especially after bath time when his skin is warm. Dont waste your time buying those expensive lotions like eucerin, if you look at the main ingredient it is petroleum jelly anyway! Good luck!
Aquaphor has worked great for my 7 month old who has the same problem....
Hi Tabitha,
This sounds really gross - but we had a similar problem and used Crisco, the kind that comes in the round tub, within three minutes from bathtime because that's when it absorbs best. Also, if it's cold or windy where you are, make sure you use a layer of some type of gentle lotion when you take him out. We also only used soap it is was absolutely necessary and when it was we used an Aveeno Baby soap formulated for dry skin.
Good Luck!
Sarah
I think Dana U hit the nail on the head as I had the same problem and on top of that it was also Candida yeast you can read more about that on line. We use Agrisept-L drops to kill the yeast. It does taste bad to I put the spoon waaay back in the mouth and let it run down the throat. Hope you find what you need.
We've had really good luck with Vaseline on my daughter's eczema. Twice a day, rub it in really well. Works great for us. Hope it helps you too!
My son developed very bad eczema when he was 7 months old. I had recently switched to GAIN laundry detergent and it just triggered it. I found out about a company called Melaleuca, and they have AMAZING products that I can use and do not bother his skin (cleaners, laundry, even the scented stuff doesn't make him itch). He had it all over his body and it looked like an allergic reaction! It actually started on his abdomen, and felt like bumps that were invisible, and then it just got worse and worse until he was a red spotted mess, and one morning his eyes were swollen so back he looked like he'd been in the ring w/Rocky! I tried the steroid creams, cetaphil (soap and lotion), aveeno baby for eczema, anything and everything the Dr. recommended! When I switched to Melaleuca, the main reason I did so, was for their Renew lotion and bath oil. This stuff is a miracle! Safe for babies and faces! I have before and daily progress pictures if you want to see! And check out the website... www.melaleuca.com ! Email me if you'd like to see the pictures [email protected]!
I've found that Aquaphor works very well. My 2 year old had very dry/cracked/bleeding skin around his mouth and was getting worse from being wet all the time (i.e. drooling during naps and teething). After many different medications that the pediatrician recommended, what finally took it away was rubbing some vaseline on before he took naps and through the day. It hasn't come back since. My 3 month old has very dry/chapped skin on his face and the Auqaphor seems to work for him.
Back when he was a baby, my son got raised/rough eczema rashes when I bathed him every day during the winter. Cutting the baths to every other day and putting olive oil on his skin after the bath seemed to prevent outbreaks.
Putting Cetaphil lotion on the rash helped it go away, but it still took about a week. This child also got rashes from a scented tear-free baby bath soap (I don't remember the brand -- it was probably a generic knock off) and from clothes when I washed them in Dreft or Oxi-clean.
Thanks for all the great tips. We went for his check up today and the dr. said he thinks its a milk protein allergy since it has gotten so much worse. He has switched his formula to very expensive Alimentum. Hopefully in a couple weeks it will be gone.