Childrens Eczema

[Tony Angelino]

Following on from the 'dry skin on hands' thread where a few of the lads have shared suggestions for creams and remedies, does anybody suffer, or more specifically have children that suffer from eczema?

My lad is 10 and has had it on and off since he was a toddler, nothing too bad really more of an inconvenience with usually fairly mild patches on the crook of the arm, neck and face/forehead. We've never really cracked the case, been given various steroid creams from the doctors over the years but they all seem to work on a short term basis before losing their effectiveness.

They're doesn't seem to be any pattern in terms of change of weather, diet etc that we have been able to discern.

With it generally being moderate, only really his arms that are usually covered being what you'd call worse than this, we have held off going back to the doctors and are using up steroid cream sparingly as we're now in BUPA we can get him seen privately in the next 12 months or so....

Anybody have any recommendations or suggestions please? Tried plenty of the aveno/aqueous/e45/Egyptian magic cream etc. and generally speaking they make him worse as if he's having a reaction to it.

Thanks

[Tony Angelino]

Loads of great replied here, thanks. Will look through the suggestions and try some of them.

Cheers all.

[Tony Angelino]

It's been interesting to read all contributions and take on board different perspectives. The explanation a few posts above really made sense and helped me to understand.

We're currently just moisturising with the Mrs astral cream with reasonable success.

Thanks for all the input, will update.