My baby just one day woke up and her had eczema 😢 she turned 3 months this week and I started noticing rough skin, bumps and redness on her body. I went to the doctor and they said it was eczema and not something I ate, which is what I thought it could be. Does anyone had experience with this? Please share when your baby got it and what tips and tricks you’ve been using to help manage it. TIA!

I feel like the first two years of child-rearing is trying to identify various rashes 😅 Mine would get baby acne, excema, hives, you name it. For excema, baby Eucerin seemed to work pretty good, and very gentle soap in the bath. We did daily baths and lotion in the morning and after bathe time. I also use the Tide Zero detergent.

Baby aveeno lotion for eczema after bath every day. It’s counterintuitive but you also want to bathe baby every day to get the dead skin cells off, and the lotion keeps in moisture

Oh boy! My 8 year old has chronic eczema. It gets bad and to the point she has had it turn into infections. Dont’t worry that is unlikely. My kid just has it that bad. We saw a pediatric dermatologist and over a year or two we finally got it under control. It is an exhaustive journey.

We narrowed down one by one, each product that was triggering it. This took time. A long time. At the end of the process, it was polyester in her clothing, that caused sweat and triggered eczema, and Laundry detergent.

So, going forward, here are the products see uses on the regular as a preventative and products she uses as a reactive.

Preventative:
1) all free and clear laundry detergent
2) dove free and clear/sensitive BAR SOAP. Not body wash. Has to be bar soap.
3) no poly in her undergarments.
4) Vanicream moisturizing cream OR cera ve moisturizing cream. We stopped using cera ve though because her endocrine system was messed up and she sees endo now. There has been claims certain cera ve products can disrupt the endocrine system. Who really knows how true it is, but we stopped it anyway due to her additional issues.

Reactive - all of the above plus cerave healing ointment and RX steroid Triamcinolone Acetonide

During flares: Baths every morning and night with no soap. Sometimes even after school too.We just let her sit and soak. Pat dry, not rub. Lotion and cream every morning and evening. Her flares are really bad though.

Couple thing to note that work absolute WONDERS, bleach baths or chlorine pools.

You need a solid emollient cream to use. Nothing else.

This has been a process for us, narrowing what her triggers are and what products to use and avoid.

You could try limiting what you eat to see if her eczema improves. Dairy, wheat, eggs, sesame, etc. good luck!! Could also be environmental. Does your detergent have added scent? Maybe perfume? Has she started daycare? Cleaning products could be the culprit, but likely not as most solvents don’t cause irritation once dry and you’re very likely not leaving your baby on the bare floor or counter…

My daughter’s eczema is a lot like mine so I treat her skin like I do mine. We moisturize multiple times a day with aveeno lotion. For bath time we do not use soap, I use ella ola on her, and dove for me. I do not bathe her every day, bathing too often can irritate the skin. I have humidifiers in the house and never let it get below 40% humidity. Vaseline works wonderfully on flare spots.

Baking soda baths saved us with our baby when they had a rash and avoid any fragrance in your laundry detergent, shampoos, conditioners, or lotions. Your Dr is right that it is an old wives tale that what you eat causes rashes for the babies.

Food can def trigger eczema .. unfortunately not all docs are knowledgeable. Dairy triggers it for my son