eczema or fungus?
My son is almost 5 months old he has had a rash since he was 6 weeks old. His pediatrician plus 2 second opinions all said eczema, i treated the rash for eczema with steroid cream (4 days) it went way and came right back. I also used atopiclear and every over the counter eczema cream. I washed with dove, cethaphil and just water, i changed the detergent and my diet (im breastfeeding) NOTHING worked so i went to a allergy specialist and he told me its fungus. Now my baby for a week has been on fungus cream and dyflucan and we are drying hi out no cream just medicated powder.finally after day 6 his unbelievable itchy rash was getting better but now day 8 hes back to his itchy (back of knees) red rash. What do i do? tomorrow its the dermatologist but honestly i don’t know what to do anymore. poor little guy cant sleep for more then 1 hour at a time he don’t know life without itchy skin except for the other day he a break. anyone gone threw this?
I have so been right where you are. I was so worried about my daughter because she had all of these red bumps all over and this really, really itchy rash on all of her joints. It turned out that the red bumps were just heat rash and she got it until she was 3 every summer.
The eczema didn’t go away though. I was also nursing and washed with very mild soaps and tried EVERY over the counter medication as well as prescription. She has been on elidel, protopic, 2 different steroids. Nothing really worked.
So, she is 4 now and we are still dealing with it. It turned out that she has food and environmental allergies. When your little one turns two you can get him tested. I suggest that you get him tested every year until they stop changing.
She is allergic to cats, dogs, dust mites, corn, chocolate, peanuts, and shell fish. We didn’t even find out about most of them until she was 4 even though we had, had her blood tested and scratch tested at 2 and 3.
So it is a continuous process. But now that she is 4 I decided to take things into my own hands and find something that would actually work and allow her to be a normal kid. Because with most creams she can’t go into the sun.
So I found Arbonne. It is a botanically based vegan product that is actually natural. I use the baby products on her and I have been able to take her oof of her prescriptions for 2 months now without issue.
If you would like to get some email me and I can hook you up.