[maxman1180]

thanks for the help guys..

[eli's momma]

Will definitely have to go back through and read all the replies!

Natural remedies: homemade laundry detergent, coconut oil, Vitamin E oil. Also since we use cloth diapers, we use a cloth wipes and a solution made from Butt Beans sold on etsy, that contains chickweed.


Over the counter remedies: Cetaphil cleanser for baths, Cetaphil cream right after bath and another 3-4x a day.


Prescription remedies: Triamcinolone 0.1% We have tried others but this is the most recent one and only one I have handy at the moment.

[Maxi]

Some great replies, but some of these be careful the products mentioned are not all natural meaning they have ingredients in them that will not truly help with the problem and actually only keep it ongoing. Please use Skin So Deep website to help to decipher the ingredient labels....it's free.

Using chemical free soaps, including shampoo and conditioner yes because it washes down the body leaving drying chemicals on the skin. Chemical free lotions, olive oil works really well for it, coconut oil is a great moisturizer but not as good as olive oil for this skin aliment. Laundry soap, bleach, dryer sheets etc. are all drying and irritating to the skin, go chemical free, there are plenty of products on the market now. All the above should greatly improve if not emlimante the flair ups, if not a shower/bath water filter to rid the drying effects of the cholirine which some people are much more sensitive to then others.

A product by Keys soap makes a great all natural anit-itch product for immediate releif. Forget about the dangerous sterioid creams )

[scarlet0813]

Well we use all dye free, smell free stuff for washing clothes and her in.

IF and WHEN it gets really bad, I bathe her up to 3 times a day. Each time she sits in the bath for 20 min. I get her out pat her dry....use her steriod cream where the eczema is and glob it on her. Then where it is just kinda dry skin I use Vanicream for the rest of her body. I then take hot wet clothes put that on her then on top of the wet I put dry. I wrap her hands with a wet sock and then a dry sock, same with feet. Do this for prob 2 days and it is all cleared up. I got this system from my daughter doing the 2 week pediatric day program at national Jewish hospital in denver...this is what they specialize in and were a God send to us when our little one was just 2 years old.