Using Every Trick in the Book for Baby Eczema Treatment

Eczema isn't an uncommon thing with babies. Babies as young as two months can often get those dreaded dry, itchy patches that indicate an eczema attack. About one out of five little babies get this, and they hate it as much as their mothers do. Try these baby eczema treatment tips to help your baby.

A lot of the time, a baby eczema attack can be an allergic reaction to something that he is in contact with – fabric softener, soap, bubblebath bubbles, and so on. The first thing to do with your baby eczema treatment plan then would be to locate the source of the problem and to make it go away. Try not to use anything that has perfume and it. Dove makes a soap for sensitive skin. Even Mr.Bubbles has a sensitive skin version. To simply use non-perfumed stuff, can help.

Your baby can get eczema as a reaction to foods that he's allergic to, too. Doctors will often recommend food allergy tests when your baby has eczema. You could try to do a little experimenting yourself to see if removing any of well-known food allergens can help.

Drugstore products like Cetaphil, Aveeno and Aquaphor, really help. They are eczema creams that you get at any drugstore. You just need to give your baby a bath and then slather the cream on immediately after when his skin is still damp. Doing this will keep your baby's skin soft and itch free. For the rest of your babies' skin – where there is no eczema – you can just use Vaseline right after a bath. It's important to lock in the moisture.

Mothers tend to worry about their babies being cold a lot more than they worry about them being too warm. Unfortunately, what this tends to result in overheated babies. Babies cry more often for being too warm than they do for being too cold. But this isn't just a personal comfort problem. When your baby is too warm, it tends to aggravate the eczema. You don't even want to give you baby baths that are too warm. Too much warmth of any kind is bad for eczema. To simply go with lukewarm water can be excellent eczema treatment.

Your baby will naturally try to scratch himself when he has an eczema attack. Sometimes, mothers worry about how the scratching can leave scars – especially on the baby's face. It can be an excellent idea to put mittens on your child's hands to make sure that those nails don't do any damage.