My son has Eczema; what should I use to cure it?
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 at
12:08 pm
I’ve tried crisco, hydrocoritzone, eucerin, nivea, vaseline, you name it. It goes away sometimes but reappears. Does anyone know of anything that has worked to cure Eczema?
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Eczema cannot be cured only controlled. Here’s two links. The first is for a topical cream to help. The second is the facts and has other links to help you.
goto the dr. get elidel
Make sure to get rid of anything with a scent. Use baby laundry detergent such as drift and aveeno soap and unscented toilet paper as the perfumes in them will only irritate it. Have you tried coconut oil baths or dead sea salt baths?
His eczema could be caused by another condition and therefore might be a symptom.
I have it and it is secondary to hypothyroidism. When my thyroid is treated properly it goes away.
I’ve read about a zinc product helping to treat it. Look up zinc and eczema together.
Also low zinc levels in the blood can cause some types of eczema. As well as it being caused by allergies.
I’ve used a lot of cortisones, and everything else you listed, too. Some helped, some made it worse. No permanent fixes. Elidel made me feel ILL, but everyone is different. Food allergies can be a big part of skin problems. Staying away from sugar made a difference, but was hard to do. I read also that a low-grade infection with staph or strep could cause it to keep reappearing. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it sometimes, but I firmly believe that stress can aggravate any medical problem.
After a lifetime of breaking out, being treated with Armour thyroid (NOT the synthetic forms!) for another autoimmune problem, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, has made a major difference in my allergies and eczema. Symptoms in the past indicated a problem, but tests never showed up anything until recently. Skin is clear most of the time now. Just amazing.
I hope something I have said will be helpful to him, but some people never outgrow it. Many others do. I hope he is one of the lucky ones who do.
I was using steroid cream (prescription) but this really not a healthy thing to use. I bought Florasone cream at a health food store and it works really great. It is a natural form of a cortisone cream. Also, I recently read that grape seed oil is good for eczema. You didn’t say how old your son is. If this is baby eczema, he may outgrow it.
Try champori anti-eczema cream. It’s natural and it works.