Parents of Preschoolers  Discussion Forum

hello friends,
my baby has some form of eczema,if anybody could suggest a good homeo doc' s name in Chennai it would be very helpful.....I can' t bear to see my baby in soooo much pain......please help!!!! igglepiggle replied. hi, my son has eczema too since he was 2 months old. now 2 1/2 year old. i did try homeopathy in delhi. one of my far relative is homeopath. but matter got really worse for him. by the time he was 6 months old he had lost half his weight. when i got back to UK, it turned out that he had allergies, that was one of the cause of his eczema. so homeopathy did quite work for him.
but i have heard it does work for some, so find a very good dr. good luck
other wise few tips,
find a really good mostiturer. ask a skin specialist for one, i use epaderm, can try coco butter, olive oil, patch test it. apply it every 2 hours, don' t let skin go dry.

Don' t use soap at all, they dry skin even baby one' s. especially johnsons.
add olive oil to bath water. if skin very dry after bath.

massage oil after bath not before.

make sure he drinks lots of fluid. at the moment breastmilk. ask dr wether you brestmilk is suiting him well.

Use 100% cotton cloth, no wooly or silk, etc. keep softtoys away.

hope it helps. but remember eczema get reduces as they grow. It all about keeping the skin moist and finding the cause of it.
all the best.