DCG's Severe Eczema, Is This Normal For Some People?

[WoodOx]

I have a DCB who had it since birth. it was terrible.. i felt so bad for him. he constantly rubbed at his face. which made it worse. i had to swaddle him most of the time. he would rub and CLAW at his face and neck. not a good sight. he just could not stop. the main ares that were affected were his face, elbows, wrist and behind the knees. there would be some ooz stuff coming out of most these areas.

mom did not nurse him. i am sure it would have helped him, but she didnt want to nurse again. she has 2 older kids.

the parents did take him to a dermatologist. they gave him some lotions for this and steroid cream too, which helped alot, but the parents did not like using it too much since it thinned his skin out. he had checkups at the dermatologist every month.


he improved when he turned 1yr. now he is 2yrs and his condition has greatly improved. he still scratches but i think he does it out of habit and also when he gets upset.

as for dairy, he drinks cow milk. parents didn't want to give him soy for some reason.

i would moisturize him frequently, to help with itching and dryness.
also he did develope a few stapf infections from broken skin and scratching. he even had a few abcess's which are painful.
so yeah, the DCB was miserable during infancy. he didnt nap well here and didnt sleep well at night either.:[ as for me i was exhausted by the end of the day. he needed a lot of care.

mom did do the blech water bath, and it seemed to help as well. but this boy just couldnt stop scratching.

[Unregistered]

She is 12 months. She was occasional drop in until this week. And I am wondering if she will end up becoming high maintenance very soon ?
Her eczrma has never improved. I have a ftiend who makrs home made soaps and swears that they work for it as her oen child (whos skin would also bleed) and customers eczems practiclly disapeared using this soap. So I gave this soap to them as s gift and for thrm to try out. I never did ask if they tried it. I didnt want to sound like pushy. They have been dealing with cps over s failure to thrive case from when mom
was in denial about noy making enough breast milk and refusjng to usr formula. Some onr called on them (most likely the Dr) when dcg. lost too much weight. Anyeay, the reason Im explaining that back ground info is because when I told her we dont do coes milk and some people who have czema will get it worse withdairy/ cow milk, and , I suggested soy milk

My son had extreme eczema for 3 years (1-4). He would scratch so bad during the night his arms would be bloody in the morning. I had to put him to bed everynight for almost a year with his arms covered in gauze. He had staph infections a dozen times...it was awful. I took him to see every doctor/naturopath I could and tried elminating foods from his diet (his allergy tests came back negative 5x) and gave him baths in everything suggested....all sorts of cream even hydrocodizone (yikes!)...at the time we didn't have pets or carpeted housing...It was a helpless situation and NOTHING worked.

Then just as fast as it came on, it was gone. Just like that.

He still has scars on his arms and I get worried when I see him itch

His need was so high I could never have left him in daycare...he needed me and I needed to know he was okay. His risk of infection was super high and we are just lucky his staph infections never got worse.

NO way I would care for a child with that kind of need/risk especially one with non proactive parents.

[Holiday Park]

I talked to mom and she said they did have allergy testing done and it came out negative. I found out the rash around the eyes,and on the body was from when she tried giving her almond milk. Today, she looked better. That rash was gone. She didn't seem to scratch as much either. I feel bad for sounding impatient in my last post. I have never delt with this before. She is high needs because she acts like she is held all the time (at home) ,and when I put her on the floor she whines at me and has seperation anxiety too 12 months is not an easy job to begin with . Then this morning i noticed mom packed stage 2 baby food again, and I had already told her that at my house she eats table food. So I've been giving her table food and the baby food on the side. (They don't mind me feeding her my food either) If I sit down on the floor to nurse my son,she is trying to climb all over me&my son to get at me.
It would be nice if dcm would just stay home with her but they are in a situation where they both need to work.