With the weather getting hotter and hotter, eczema has reached a high season, people still have many misconceptions about the treatment of eczema, today and then talk to you about these misconceptions, see which one you have been misled?
Misconception one
”The baby has eczema, stop breast milk will be good; and may be caused by eggs, milk, kick them out of the baby’s recipe.”
Eczema is a genetic allergic disease that occurs in children under the age of 5 and is a disease that can recur.
Food allergies are indeed a relatively common problem, but clinical evidence suggests that avoiding these suspected allergenic foods necessary for a baby’s growth and development is not effective in preventing and relieving infant eczema flare-ups, and unless food allergies need to be considered for severe eczema with widespread flare-ups throughout the body, it makes little sense to look for food allergens for mild to moderate eczema.
Although some elderly people believe that eczema will get better after the child is weaned, unless the baby is really intolerant to breast milk (such cases are very rare), don’t wean your baby easily, breast milk is the most suitable and best food for your baby. Eczema does not necessarily affect your baby’s growth and development, but lack of nutrition will definitely affect your baby’s growth and development.
Myth 2
”Eczema must be completely eradicated to work; eczema at the skin to keep dry to get better quickly.”
There is no medicine that can cure eczema, and the key to avoiding eczema recurrence is care. All parents can do is to control recurrent eczema with careful care and rational use of medication to reduce the impact of eczema on the quality of life and growth of the affected child. It is promising that more than 50% of children with eczema can heal on their own as they get older.
Eczema, as the name implies, is thought by many to be caused by too wet skin, but in fact the opposite is true: eczema skin is afraid of dryness and must be kept moisturized regularly to do so. Therefore, moisturizing is the foundation of eczema skin care, and a good moisturizer can make half the difference. When parents choose moisturizing products for their children, they should choose creams, creams and other forms, not dew, because the water will evaporate quickly after the dew is applied to the skin and will not be able to moisturize the skin continuously.
For mild eczema, the use of hypoallergenic skin cream to keep the skin moist can control the symptoms; for moderate to severe eczema, in addition to moisturizing with the use of weak topical hormones, if the skin is broken and combined with bacterial or fungal infections, but also combined with the use of anti-bacterial or anti-fungal infection cream.
Myth 3
”Hormonal drugs can affect the growth and development of children, so don’t listen to your doctor and use hormonal creams if you have eczema.”
Although the vast majority of information on the internet for eczema treatment rejects hormone therapy, clinical experience at home and abroad has proven that for moderate to severe eczema, a reasonable choice of topical hormone creams is the preferred treatment. If parents listen to internet rumors, they will delay the treatment of their baby’s eczema and make a small area of eczema that can be easily controlled become a large area of difficult to control eczema.
In fact, the side effects of hormonal creams are exaggerated. Parents’ fears that hormone medication will resist growth in young children only occur when large doses of hormone medication are taken orally or injected over a long period of time. The treatment of eczema does not require oral hormones, much less hormone injections, but only topical hormone creams. The adverse effects of long-term use of these drugs are often limited to the skin, manifesting as skin thinning or hyperpigmentation.
In addition, even without hormone creams, skin pigmentation changes may occur in the recovery period, which are caused by the disease itself and not necessarily by the hormones, and they will fade over time.
Conclusion
1, although eczema can not be cured, but eczema can be controlled can be self-healing! If your baby is suffering from eczema, anxiously looking for allergens does not make much sense for treatment, but adds a burden to your baby.
2.If it is mild, parents take good care of it, often use hypoallergenic skin creams to keep the skin moisturized, avoid physical stimulation such as overheating and sun exposure and clothing friction, and avoid chemical stimulation of toiletries to control the condition.
3. If the condition is moderately severe, in addition to the above-mentioned care means, you should also listen to your doctor and use hormone creams in a clear manner to avoid delaying treatment. The reasonable use of topical hormone creams will not affect the growth and development of the baby.