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What should I do if my baby has frequent eczema?

What should I do if my baby has frequent eczema?

Sharing a clinical case of eczema may be helpful!

I saw a baby who was one year and six months old, breastfed, allergic, and had eczema since birth. When she told me about it, she kept shedding tears. When she was four months old, her skin was dry and there was no good skin on her body, and some parts of her body had liquid oozing out. There wasn't much I could eat when I added complementary foods, and I was allergic to millet, flour, milk, eggs, dark-colored fruits and vegetables, and white granulated sugar.

From 11 months mom has been giving her child probiotics for six months and the allergies remain. In winter, when she goes out to breathe cold air, her rash comes back. Her stools never form, she coughs when she gets agitated, and she can't sleep well and has nighttime cries. The child is even allergic to antipyretics, and his buttocks will be red for a week after taking antipyretics.

There was no improvement even after a month or two of tui na massage for my daughter at the local pediatric tui na store. When I saw the child, she was small and thin, and the circle of her mouth and the fossa under her nose were always blue, and her tongue was white and greasy.

This is a case of dry eczema, which is an allergic disease and can occur repeatedly. Affected children should consume less seafood, egg yolk and other easily allergic foods, and try not to eat foods that may cause or aggravate allergies, such as eggs, fish and shrimp. Breastfeeding mom diet with the same baby, at the same time, be sure to mother and child with the same tone, love and care for their own body is to take care of the baby Oh ~ there is no reason not to love yourself more!

For this baby is mainly due to congenital insufficiency, spleen and stomach cold, long-term disease Yang Qi deficiency, fluid and blood can not be spread to the skin and lead to. You can massage these four acupoints mainly: external Laogong, Erma, Qing tonic spleen, Qing tonic large intestine and so on.

External Laogong and Erma: Greatly tonifying the vital energy, supporting the Yuan and consolidating the base.

Clearing and tonifying the spleen and clearing and tonifying the large intestine: strengthening the spleen and resolving dampness, promoting clearing and directing turbidity.

It's so unexpected to be pushing for only three days!

  • After the first day of pushing, I woke up early the next day and noticed that the dry eczema on my child's face was much better.
  • I continued to push the next day, after which the skin all over my body was not dry, and the stubborn patch of eczema on my back disappeared.
  • The pushing continued on the third day. When mom bathed her child on the fourth day, she noticed that her child's skin had really changed for the better. Mom said: I didn't dare to give her more baths when she was dry before, but now she really has a real baby-like skin, which she has never had before!

Here, I would especially like to remind you that your child's symptoms have improved, but the conditioning of the physique has just begun, and this is only the starting point!

If it is damp-heat warm rash, such as thick tongue coating, red lips, smelly stools, hot palms, etc., pediatric acupressure fruit is also very good, and the main acupoints are:Clearing and tonifying the spleen, clearing the stomach, calming the liver and clearing the lungs, and clearing the water of the Heavenly River.etc.

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Thanks for the headline great invitation, the main cause of eczema in babies is due to intolerance or allergy to food, inhalation or contact. Therefore, when your baby develops eczema, the first thing is to take good care of it.

Baby Eczema: Early Care is Key

Baby eczema itchy, constantly rubbing scratching, not only easy to bleed, more likely to secondary bacterial infection, resulting in pustules or pus scabs. Therefore, eczema baby to clever care, relieve the baby discomfort. Moms should keep a good eye on every aspect of their baby's life.

1, breastfeeding can reduce the degree of eczema. Protein-based complementary foods should be added later, such as eggs, fish, shrimp, general children from 4 months gradually added, and eczema children, it is recommended to add 1 to 2 months later, and add the speed should be slow.

2. Artificially fed babies suffering from eczema can have their milk boiled for a few minutes to reduce allergenicity.

3, baby food to light diet is good, should be less salt, so as not to accumulate too much fluid in the body and prone to eczema.

4, daily life of Chinese medicine to avoid excessive heat and sweat, and to avoid contact with feathers, small animal fur, pollen, chemical fiber and other allergic substances; clothing quilt should not use silk, wool, chemical fiber products.

5, to warm water bath is best, avoid the alkaline bath products with strong degreasing, choose acidic bath products. Choose hypoallergenic or anti-allergic preparations for skin care products.

6, the room temperature should not be too high, otherwise it will make the eczema itch worse, the environment to minimize allergens to reduce the allergic reaction caused by stimulation.

Of course, these care measures can only temporarily relieve eczema, but can not solve the root cause of eczema, therefore, it is recommended that parents can follow the following children's acupressure techniques for children to acupressure, with this green and safe, non-medicated way to cure the baby's eczema.

Baby eczema Specific massage techniques are as follows, the baby parents can follow to do oh:

First move:Clear the lung meridian 300 times, ring finger digit, centrifugal push, fast 150-200 times/minute

Second move:Cleanse the large intestine 300 times, with the outside of the index finger near the thumb, pushing centrifugally

Third move:Tonic spleen meridian 300 times, outside of the first joint of the thumb, pushing toward the heart

Fourth move:Take Bacillus for 1-2 minutes, highest point on the inside of the knee, pinch with both fingers

The fifth move:Press and knead the Hegu for 1-2 minutes, with the thumb and index finger connecting at the highest point

Sixth move:Press and knead Quchi for 1-2 minutes, midpoint of the line connecting the elbow tips of the transverse elbow stripe, and press with the thumb

Seventh move:Press and knead the foot Sanli for 1-2 minutes, and open 1 finger four fingers below the eye of the outer knee, and press with the thumb

The eighth move:Press and knead Yinlingquan for 1-2 minutes, inside of the knee raised small bone straight down in the depression, thumbs down

Ninth move:Press and knead Sanyinjiao for 1-2 minutes, 4 fingers straight up from the inner ankle dust, thumb pressure

Warm Tip:If the baby eczema is more serious, moms and dads do not hesitate to go to the doctor Oh, this method for mild eczema, as well as long-term prevention and treatment of eczema, as long as the mother insisted on doing, away from eczema is no longer difficult.

When it comes to eczema, moms and dads are no strangers to it, and many of them can summarize their experiences. How to prevent it and how to take care of the treatment, all have a very clear knowledge.

Recurrent eczema is usually associated with a failure to circumvent allergens or parents' reluctance to give their babies hormonal medications.

However, I met this baby, the allergens should be avoided to avoid, hormone ointment also smeared, eczema is still recurring. What's going on?

Can I still wipe the medicine correctly? How should it be wiped?

This baby is allergic to milk protein and has completely avoided all dairy products; he has also used up a dozen tubes of hormone ointment. However, the baby's face and body are still full of eczema, which is heartbreaking.

Without going into the long and agonizing process of seeking a solution in between, let's talk about the reason we finally found, which turned out to be the wrong way of applying the medicine.

This mother has always seen eczema serious, began to smear hormone ointment; smear, squeeze the ointment on the finger, painted in a circle on the baby's skin; because there is still some concern about the hormone, so only 3 days, to the day and then stop.

Every now and then, the baby's eczema is definitely on the mend, with some areas clearing up and others still there. But before long, the eczema is all over again.

That being said, can you all analyze what this mom is not doing quite right?

First, squeezing the ointment onto your hand to rub it in makes it difficult to spread it evenly.

If the baby only a little bit of eczema, you can wipe the medicine in this way, but when the baby's whole body a large area of eczema, with the fingertips one by one to wipe, it is easy to cause uneven thickness, or there are places to miss. So long-term, hormone ointment did not use less, the baby exposure to the total amount of hormones has actually been very much, eczema but not completely good.

In fact, you should mix the ointment 1:1 with your baby's usual moisturizer and apply it to a large area of your baby's skin so that every part of the skin is covered with the ointment. Where there are breakouts and oozing, you can't apply lotion, you should mix hormone ointment and antibiotic ointment 1:1 and apply it to the affected area to fight infection. A commonly used antibiotic medication is Bactrim ointment.

Secondly, when to stop hormone creams depends on the state of the skin rather than counting days.

Baby's whole body skin can not be good at the same time all together. If parents do not care whether it is well or not, just counting the days, 3 days to stop the medicine, 5 days to stop the medicine, it is very easy to lead to the baby eczema recurrence.

Long-term recurrent episodes and repeated use of medication can also lead to drug resistance, and parents may feel that how come this medication used to work, but now it doesn't work well.

So when some of the skin improves, you should continue to rub the medication on the affected area and use your normal moisturizer on the recovered skin. As the skin condition slowly gets better, gradually narrow down the range of medication.

What else should I look for in a baby with eczema?

Three major factors associated with eczema thatAllergies, antibiotics, disinfectantsThese are known to everyone.

However, many parents of babies with eczema have experienced, you said all this we have been very careful, eczema is still there. In fact, in detail, eczema care need to pay attention to really a lot of places.

Let's talk about what other little details to look for besides these big factors.

Don't cover it up.

"Dampness" and "heat" are the triggers that aggravate eczema in babies.

The baby's skin is not yet mature enough and is itself thin, and this is especially true of the part that develops eczema.

When encountering "wet" and "hot", the blood vessels on the baby's skin will be congested, the thin skin will look more red, and the itchiness will be aggravated. If the baby scratches the skin because of the itchiness, infection will be induced and the eczema will become more serious.

If parents give eczema baby wear a lot of clothes, or lay very thick, cover very thick, in fact, equal to the artificial creation of a hot and humid environment, will aggravate eczema.

You can't skip a shower.

When a baby has eczema, everyone knows to stop irritating the skin with products like bath bombs, but it has spawned the other extreme of not bathing.

In fact, when babies have eczema, their skin becomes rough and is prone to some flaking, which needs to be washed off to maintain a certain level of cleanliness. So parents should bathe their babies every day, but it's best to wash them with water and wash them quickly.

Limit your baby's scratching and more importantly, stop your baby's itching

Eczema should not be scratched, otherwise the ulcers will be easily infected by bacteria and make the eczema worse, which is true in theory. That's why some parents tie the baby's hands to control scratching.

But that's the cruel way.

Baby itch ah, you do not let him scratch, he heart how difficult. I have seen a little baby, mom pressed the hand does not let him scratch the eczema on the face, he kept rubbing his face against the mother, so as to relieve the itch, think of all the difficult right.

The first priority in caring for eczema is to stop the itching.

Parents can use a combination of topical hormone creams, and oral antihistamines to help their baby stop itching. A commonly used hormone cream is hydrocortisone, and an oral medication is cetirizine. If parents are unsure, they should always consult their pediatrician.

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Currently our treatment guidelines for eczema recommend: medium and weak hormone plus moisturizing treatment.

The apricot cream mentioned by the subject, as well as baby care store baby treasure, comfrey oil, all kinds of eczema cream are not recommended for children. If your child is sick, you should go to a specialized hospital, do not blindly listen to the non-professionals of the experience of the prescription advice, etc., these experience of the prescription has a certain misunderstanding, most of them are in the absence of control of the case of the wrong conclusion, some are completely wrong to make something out of nothing. Some of the so-called eczema cream ingredients are not sure, buy drugs should be recognized as the State Drug Administration, the patent number can be applied for everyone, is not the same as the State Drug Administration. Children with eczema should go to a dermatologist or pediatrician.





Eczema is an inflammatory skin disease with a pronounced tendency to ooze, accompanied by scratching and itching, and is prone to recurring episodes, caused by a variety of internal and external factors. Causes include abnormal immune function and genetic factors. External factors include allergens, irritants, microbial and chemical stimuli. Eczema is a delayed hypersensitivity reaction.




Manifestations of eczema:

The rash is generally polymorphic and symmetrically distributed.

Acute manifestations are mainly erythema, edema, corn-grain-sized papules, papules, blisters, vesicles, oozing, the center of the lesion is heavier gradually spreading to the surrounding area, surrounded by scattered papules, the border is not very clear.

The subacute phase is characterized by erythema and exudation, reduction, vesiculation, crusting, and desquamation.

In the chronic phase there is mainly skin, roughness, and mossy lesions.

Treatment consists primarily of moderate to weak glucocorticoids plus moisturization.


Weak to moderate-acting hormones are generally used continuously for about a week, if necessary, it is recommended to ask a professional physician for guidance. Pay attention to the ways and means of withdrawing and stopping the medication, phasing down the dosage, gradually reducing the dosage from twice a day to once a day, once every other day, twice a week after the eczema is controlled. The dosage of hormone is one thumbnail, apply two palm area.

Moisturizing is most important, and the only recommended moisturizers are Staph, imported from Germany, or Vaseline. Can be every three hours, or twice a day. Use a humidifier in the winter when it is dry.

Bathe the baby regularly. Bathe for ten minutes or more and use some non-irritating bath products. Use a moisturizer within three minutes after bathing. During an acute attack you can use glucocorticosteroids immediately after a warm bath for about 10 to 20 minutes to help the recovery of the disease.


Remember that children's eczema can be treated with only hormones plus moisturizing. Moisturizing is especially important, and the more botanical the eczema cream, the less you should use it.

Children should go to the hospital when they are sick and should not listen to prescriptions or other lay people's experiences.



I am a pediatrician, Kong Kai, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of common pediatric diseases and prevention, child feeding, child health care, children's growth and development issues, welcome to communicate with me. Your attention and support praise is my motivation to move forward, I will be more pediatric science education, thank you!

As soon as a mom hears about eczema, she immediately uses eczema cream, which has hormones in it that can harm the child!

My baby is pretty well taken care of, basically no eczema, share it with you.



Identify the cause, not the medication!

There are many causes of eczema, so check them out one by one.

1. are you allergic to something you ate? Seafood, egg whites, it can all cause .I have friends around me, beef, chicken, duck and all these, seafood are not allowed to eat, only pork rib soup, all the others will cause protein allergy to the child. So moms reflect on whether they ate something?Soy sauce and other condiments are also possible.



2. Is it too hot? If it's too hot it's called a heat rash, which is also a .Many mothers complain about their children with eczema how to do, while the child to wear very much, full of head rashes, buttocks and back are all, that is not called eczema, but heat rash, the child's metabolism is very fast, there is no need to wear so much, than the mother of a piece of clothing is okay!

3. Is it the wrong formula?If you keep getting eczema back and forth.It tends to increase, the probability of asthma and needs to be taken seriously.



If it's because of the formula and you need to changeSemi-hydrolyzed milk powder fully hydrolyzed milk powder, or change amino acid milk powder. Hydrolyzed milk powder to eat three months later, switch back to ordinary milk powder to see if there will be allergies, if this is the problem, parents must pay attention to, less children have been allergic to, has been repeatedly stimulated, it is not good for the child.

What's the best medicine to use?

My baby's eczema is not medicated!

You need to moisturize if you have eczema. You can use Staph moisturizer, which is hormone-free, fragrance-free, and recommended by skin specialists.

Eczema, breastfeeding mothers should avoid!

If your child's eczema is already itchy, use some glyburide to stop the itching.


Because the network recommended a variety of drugs I do not recommend, especially good fast miracle drug are containing hormones, you think about it, are using hormones, will have an impact on the child's resistance and everything?

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Hello, if your baby has recurrent eczema, there are two reasons to consider: the first is that it was not treated at all and not properly cared for; the second is that your child's skin is repeatedly exposed to various irritations, including allergies.
First, what is not treated?
For example, if the child's eczema is more serious, hormone ointment is the first choice of drugs, direct treatment of inflammation at the skin, but parents will be worried about the side effects of hormones, so as soon as you look at the eczema a little bit better, you will stop using. But looking at the skin improved, does not mean that eczema has been good, to be used until the skin is smooth, heat and not red, before you can stop using hormones, so, too early to stop using hormones, will lead to feel eczema is good, after a few days and then committed, recurring.
In addition, after the eczema is treated, the child's skin should be protected with moisturizer all the time to prevent external stimuli from re-entering the skin and causing eczema to reappear. Therefore, if you stop applying moisturizer to your baby after the eczema has cleared up, it will be easy for recurrent eczema to occur.
Second, repeated skin irritation, including allergies.
As you know, eczema is an inflammation of the skin caused by poor skin barrier function, which leads to external irritants entering into the skin and causing skin inflammation. Therefore, if your child always damages the skin, which leads to poor barrier function, eczema will occur repeatedly. The following situations can all lead to skin damage: the child crawls and always rubs the skin; vigorously rubbing the baby's skin when bathing, causing the skin to become red; using too much body lotion when bathing; the weather is too hot, causing the child to always sweat and irritate the skin; and the weather is too dry, resulting in the skin being too dry.
In addition, if the baby has solved all the above problems, but still recurrent eczema, to consider whether the child has an allergy problem, if always in contact with allergens, has been irritating the child's skin, the baby's eczema can not be good.

You can look at your life to see if you have any allergies, and if you don't find any, you can check for allergens, as you can see in this article: https://www.wukong.com/question/6404411947785126146/

If you do have an allergy problem, the only way to treat eczema completely is to avoid allergens on top of treating eczema.

To properly treat eczema, we look at what eczema fears most.

Eczema has three fears:

怕干

I don't know who named the name, obviously the skin condition of this problem is dehydrated, but it has to carry the word "wet", which is not misleading people.

And the fact is, eczema baby's skin is not yet fully developed, skin rash dysfunction, can not lock the water, so, regardless of whether the baby's eczema is light, is heavy, the first care is - moisturizing.

How do you moisturize?

  • Just choose the right moisturizing balm that meets the criteria of being creamy, of good quality, with few impurities, and free of fragrance and coloring.

  • It can be used several times a day. Usually 2 times a day, severe conditions require 5-6 applications of moisturizer per day. In short, apply it whenever you think of it.

be afraid of getting hot

There is a kind of cold called "adults think you are cold", in fact, babies are not as afraid of cold as we think, and eczema babies, more than the average baby can not cover the heat.

Usually to the clothing as much as possible to wear cotton clothes, and to loose some, do not cover the sweat, clean and fresh best.

Also, not too much ambient temperature.

Fear of unregulated medication

If your baby's eczema is already moderately severe, the use of hormonal medications is unavoidable.

Don't be afraid of hormone creams, if the medication is regulated, it's not as scary as we think.

Hormone medication use is to be followed:

  • Make sure your baby's rash is eczema and has reached the point of hormone use

  • Hormone use has a gradient treatment process from high concentration to low concentration, do not blindly stop using as soon as there is an improvement

  • Hormones should always be applied under a doctor's supervision

Moms and dads, do you have any other tips for treating eczema, share them in the comments section!


I am Xiaoguo, attending pediatrician of a tertiary care doctor, mother of two babies, more than ten years in medicine, welcome to pay attention to learn more about parenting.

Thanks for the invite:

The causes of eczema in babies are complex and generally have these reasons

1.Allergy Causes:Babies are allergic, and those with a family history of allergies are usually more likely to develop eczema.

2.External causes: Babies with eczema can sometimes aggravate the symptoms of eczema, such as eating protein-rich foods like fish, shrimp, eggs and milk, contact with skin care products and toiletries that are uncomfortable or aggravating, allergies to pollen from various plants, sun exposure, and high ambient temperatures or dressing too warmly, all of which may stimulate recurrent or aggravated eczema in babies.

3.Baby's own causesInfants' skin has a thin stratum corneum, a rich capillary network and an endothelium that contains a lot of water and chlorine, making it sensitive to various stimuli, so it is also called infantile eczema.


Depending on the cause of your baby's eczema, this is generally possible:

1.Adjusting the diet and suspending allergy-inducing foods. Breastfed babies, breastfeeding mother try to avoid the intake of easy to cause allergies to food, such as fish and shrimp milk, etc., to the baby to add complementary foods, but also try to avoid easy to cause babies with eczema food, or delayed to add.

2.Ensure that your baby's skin is clean and moisturized, and avoid sunlight as well as high room temperatures. It is also best to bathe your baby and wash his hair directly with water.

3. Wear loose cotton clothes for your baby to avoid scratchy skin caused by friction.

4. Baby eczema if not very serious, you can not consider the use of drugs, but if serious can consider the use of drugs, such as glycerine lotion, eczema cream.

5. It can also be treated with pediatric massage.

Pediatric eczema recurrent, generally two or three years old will gradually improve, before easy to recur, usually pay attention to external moisturizing cream. Treatment medication should be adjusted according to the skin lesions, not set in stone. Serious, according to the doctor's guidance medication, to avoid infection.

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I'm Little Feather Mommy Loves Baby, a senior baby sitter who loves kids and a mom of two who loves life.

Hello, about eczema get well fast method, if use hormone drugs, may get well fast, but easy to recur, and is not good for the baby's body. It is recommended to deal with the allergens.



Regarding eczema, it is usually due to allergies.

1. Some babies are caused by familial inheritance;

2. Some babies are caused by food allergies;

3. Some babies are caused by allergies such as pollen;

4. Some babies are caused by allergies due to skin contact with formaldehyde, laundry detergent and diapers.



Regarding allergies, to solve them completely, you have to deal with the source.

1. Pay attention to hygiene, keep the skin clean, dry and ventilated. Bathe and change clothes regularly, washing with water is best. Don't let your baby get hot.

2. Babies wear cotton clothes and use baby laundry detergent.

3. Prohibit contact with allergens, such as pollen, and pay attention to air ventilation.

4. Do not eat allergic foods, do not eat oranges, pineapples, strawberries and other fruits before the age of one. There are also allergies to fish and shrimp, also need to pay attention not to eat.

5. Choose the right formula and supplement for your baby, and choose the right diaper for your baby. Where allergies or aggravations occur, be sure to pay attention.



If your baby's symptoms are large and severe, it is recommended that you go to the hospital to treat the symptoms with natural remedies, always remembering not to take any unauthorized medication.

As a final reminder, take care to address the source and wish your baby health and happiness!

Eczema, scientifically known as atopic dermatitis, is a hereditary condition that can last for months or even years.

Although it is called eczema, the trigger of eczema is not because of wetness, but because of dryness caused by damage to the skin barrier function, resulting in external irritants into the skin within the skin, because small children themselves may be allergic to the body, so it leads to skin allergies or inflammation.

When children get eczema, what can they do about it?

First, parents should try to keep their children away from allergens as well as triggers. If you are not sure about the specific triggers and allergens, you can get the results by doing an allergen test. In addition, when it comes to clothing, it is best to dress your child in loose cotton clothes. In terms of food, it is best to avoid allergy-prone foods such as eggs, beans and seafood. In addition, it is usually necessary to keep the room clean and avoid exposing the child to animal fur or dust mites.

Secondly, when a child with eczema feels localized itching of the skin, it should be moisturized to stop the itching. This can be done by applying a topical moisturizer such as petroleum jelly to keep the skin as moist as possible at all times. Glycolite lotion is also effective in stopping the itching.

Then, taking anti-allergic oral medications or using hormonal topical medications are best directed by a dermatologist. And pay attention to the accurate use of drugs and appropriate dosage.

Finally, if you find that your eczema is combined with an infection, which means that the red color of the skin in the eczema affected area is darker than it was and yellow crusts have appeared on the original lesion, it is usually a Staphylococcus aureus infection, which can be treated with oral antibiotics or topical antibiotics. If there is a combination of fungal infection, it is treated with topical antifungal medication.

In short, when the child has eczema, parents need to pay careful attention to the development of eczema changes, once found that the child eczema site pus, redness, swelling, fever, or skin herpes or other eczema symptoms change or aggravate the situation, you should promptly meals hospital to seek medical help.

Instructor: Chen Limei, Chief Physician, Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

She has been engaged in the clinical, teaching and scientific research of Chinese medicine surgery for more than twenty years, specializing in the treatment of all kinds of difficult skin diseases by combining Chinese and Western medicine, especially in the treatment of eczema, urticaria, psoriasis, herpes zoster, pruritus and so on.

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