Baby Eczema Cream

Eczema is a common skin condition that is characterized by itchy, dry, red, scaly skin. It often starts as a rash on the cheeks, but then can appear just about anywhere on baby’s body. Often, baby eczema is a vicious cycle: the skin is irritated, it itches, your child rubs or scratches it, which makes it more inflamed and itchier.

Causes of Eczema:

While the baby eczema causes are not fully understood, eczema seems to run in families with a history of allergies and skin disorders. There are many environmental factors that can trigger eczema, including heat, scratchy fabrics, animal dander, or detergents. Sometimes, eczema can be an allergic reaction to baby’s food, or even the food in your diet, if you’re a nursing mother.

Eczema Treatment:

Treating eczema is a three-part plan: Keep baby’s skin well moisturized, treat the inflammation, and identify and remove any potential triggers. Treatments both natural and inorganic are available. Aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and oral medications are helpful. But skin cream for baby eczema is also very important. Babies with eczema need a moisturizer applied several times a day and especially right after a bath to lock in moisture.

Moisturizers for Eczema Skin:

Moisturizers have been found to help restore the skin barrier providing a protective layer on surface of the skin to trap water and prevent the penetration of irritants and allergens. An emollient cream is superior in trapping the moisture within the skin.

There are five randomized controlled trials showing benefit to emollient use in atopic eczema. Kantor showed a global improvement from the use of moisturizers.

Choice products include sticky substances like Vaseline, 25 percent water in Hydrophilic Petrolatum, unscented cold cream, aqueous cream, and less sticky like Uremol, Dermalac, Lachydrin.

Moisturizers Should:

  • Be perfume free and cosmetically acceptable to the patient
  • Protect – offer a layer of protection on the surface of the skin
  • Rehydrate - trap and hold water to return moisture to the skin
  • Restore - assist with restoring the barrier by filling in the holes and gaps in the skin barrier

As much as 400-500 grams of moisturizer a week is reasonable in children and proportionately more in adults. Several studies have shown that with increased moisturization the skin barrier can be restored, resulting in a significant reduction in the amount of topical medication used to manage eczema, especially in mild to moderate eczema.

When choosing a moisturizer look for the ingredients such as petrolatum, mineral oil, silicone (protect), glycerin, panthenol, hyaluronic acid, propylene glycol, butylene glycol (rehydrate), stearyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, tocopheryl acetate, prolipids (restore).

A steroid cream or ointment sometimes works wonders to help break a stubborn cycle of eczema. A short course of oral steroid medication can sometimes help get eczema under enough control that the other methods you try will work more effectively.

Preparing the Baby Cream

Baby Eczema Cream can be prepared at home by using almond oil, vitamin E capsules, and oats. Take vitamin E capsules and open them. Take the almond oil and mix it with powdered vitamin E. Add some oat powder to make it thick. Apply this lotion on the affected areas. This will reduce the itchy sensation.

If it doesn’t work, consult a doctor before using over the counter drugs.

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