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    Posted: 03 February 2010 at 8:19pm
Hi Just wondering what people would recommend for baby eczema? Has anyone found a miracle cream that clears it all up !!!!!
I'm currently using either emulsifying ointment or health e fatty ointment on my babe with steriods when things get worse. Also using aqueous in the bath.
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Go to Kumfy kids website http://www.kumfykids.co.nz/catalog/ it called Xmaeses (?sp)

I didn't like new HealthE fatty cream, didn't work on my children, so we switched to Non-Ionic cream.

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The lemnis fatty cream didn't really work for us, and although the xmaease was great, at $30 for a small tube, it got rather expensive!

Best thing for us has been 10% glycerine in cetomacrogol cream, which the pharmacy will have to make up for you - not sure how much, but if you get your GP to write a script, it should be almost free. (I think the cetomacrogol is the same as non-ionic?)

a small amount of tea tree oil in the bath too helps as an antibacterial also. The weather at the moment isn't helping either....we've got a flare up atm, which has been under control for ages!

and lastly, how old is your baby? is it worth considering having food allergies tested? Natalie's eczema showed up at 5 months, which was the first sign of her food allergies rearing its head - the thing that cleared up her eczema the most was figuring out what she was allergic to within my breastmilk (dairy and egg for us).
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Originally posted by blondy blondy wrote:



Best thing for us has been 10% glycerine in cetomacrogol cream, which the pharmacy will have to make up for you -


Ditto..I love the 'C' cream as I call it. It's free on prescription and you get a huge tub. I have filled up lots of tiny tubs and carry them around in all my bags.

I also wash my daughter with emulsifying cream, as I found the aqueous cream didn't help at all.

Like Blondy said, finding the cause helped too and food allergies were also our main culprit

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Ditto....the "c" cream rocks! It has been our saviour and also finding out DD's triggers which happens to be cats!! Religiously putting the cream on and keeping the skin hydrated is key to keeping on top of eczema I have learnt. I lude DD up twice a day and more if her skin is looking irritated.

I bath DD in Pinetarsol and thats it, no soap/body wash and just a little bit of shampoo for the hair a couple of times a week.

I find aqeuous cream made her eczema alot worse.
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Thanks for your comments. My baby is now 7 months. The eczema initially arrived at 17 days old. Have tried pinetarsal which she hates! Might try the cetomacrogol cream you suggest. Thanks! I've tried eliminating a number of things from my breastmilk with no obvious effects on her. However i recently tried her on formula for the first time (cows milk) and she had an allergic reaction with her skin going red and blotchy (not eczema), so that must be one thing she's allergic to. Drs keep saying hopefully she'll grow out of it.
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Marianne - Natalie had the exact same reaction when we tried her on formula too. Such a bummer about the eczema occuring so early

On the eliminating dairy thing, it took 3 weeks of me on a no-dairy diet (including all the foods with milk solids etc) to make any difference in my DD's symptoms. Dairy tends to hang around in your system, so maybe worth another shot? Good luck, I know what a daily battle it can be!
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Originally posted by Marianne Marianne wrote:

   i recently tried her on formula for the first time (cows milk) and she had an allergic reaction with her skin going red and blotchy (not eczema), so that must be one thing she's allergic to.


The same thinh happened with my daughter when I weaned her at 7 mths. She also had an upset tummy and diarrhoea. Got her allergy tested and found out about all her food allergies, including a milk protein allergy. Switched her to Neocate formula and noticed an improvement straight away, although the eczema has taken a long time to get on top of.

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Hi. How did you get Neocate formula - did you have to go thru a specialist? My GP is reluctant to refer her as he thinks it's not serious enough. Has suggested I try soy formula.
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Neocate (which my DD is on also) can only be prescribed through a specialist, and your specialist has to apply for government funding for the formula (otherwise it's about $100 a tin ). Personally, if I had been battling with eczema for about 7 months I would ask the GP for a referral to a specialist for allergy testing. IMO, if the eczema interferes with your and your baby's daily life, then that is serious enough to warrant a referral.

I also would be reluctant to try soy based formula, due to the issues with estrogen in soy - but JMO
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A natural alternative- I found it great.... dunno how severe your case is- but this stuff is lovely.
Exmaease
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when i was little the only cream that worked was hydrocortisone..and im talking 6 months old being lathered in 0.5% cortisone. most doctors refused to try it based on my age but it was a godsend.
i was coated from scalp to toes. my eyelids would split, my lips/side of mouth would crack when i opened to feed/cry, my ear lobes split and up the top of my ear would weep yellow puss. my whole body was coated and even my little baby bits were coated in excema and "nappy rash" and nothing worked until mum tried the cortisone.

i was also put onto soy formula at 6weeks as i was highly allergic to breast milk. if vomited, chronic sh*ts and the excema. i dropped from 9lb to 5lb in those 6 weeks.

skin prick tests showed dairy, citrus and horse allergies (yet i was fine with horse but not boxer dogs)
however now (age 20) im just allergic to dairy, tomatoes, grass and still the boxer dogs.

hope you get on track soon and can get it under control
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and now that im older i still use hydrocotisone or advantan ointment. but when my ears weep puss like they are doing atm cos its summer i have some drops that i ahve to rub on and man they burn but it so majorly helps.

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