Newborns can get eczema too? Yes, don’t think that eczema won’t affect your newborn baby just one month after birth, it is a common disease in newborns! There are several causes of eczema in newborns, one is allergies, babies with a family history of allergies are prone to eczema. The second is allergens, that is, factors that can trigger babies to commit eczema, such as protein-rich fish and shrimp, eggs, milk, or woolen fabrics, pollen, fur, feathers, viral infections, and even sunlight, high temperatures, cold, wearing too much, etc., can trigger or stimulate the baby’s eczema. Newborn babies with eczema will have red papules on their skin with flaking, and sometimes small macules oozing a yellow, fatty fluid. Eczema can easily appear on the baby’s head, forehead, ears, limbs, and torso, and the itching can make the baby cry. To relieve the discomfort caused by eczema in newborns, mothers should not relent even more. However, to eczema baby care, many new mothers are frequently wrong! The first thing you need to do is to keep your skin dry. Don’t be fooled by the name “eczema” and think that eczema is caused by too much wet skin, on the contrary, eczema skin is afraid of dryness, so keep it moisturized often. This low-level mistake should not be made ha! So moisturizing is the basis of eczema skin care, and good moisturizing can be half the battle. When we choose moisturizing products for children, we should choose products that contain oil like creams or lotions, not products with only water-soluble ingredients like glycerin, because when applied to the skin, the water will evaporate and not keep the skin moist. For mild eczema, the use of hypoallergenic skin cream to keep the skin moist can control the symptoms; for moderate to severe eczema, in the moisturizing at the same time with the use of weak topical hormones, if the skin is broken combined with bacterial or fungal infection, but also the joint use of anti-bacterial or anti-fungal infection cream. The first misconception is that some parents don’t bathe their eczema babies, or wash them less. Correctly, babies with eczema should be bathed more often, every day. However, it is important to note that the bath water temperature should not be too high, generally do not exceed 36 ℃, and each bath time should not exceed 10 minutes. In acute attacks, the time can be a little longer, soaking in a warm bath for 10-20 minutes, which can soften the scabs on the skin, and then use hormonal ointment, the effect will be better. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are getting into. Eczema does not necessarily affect your baby’s growth and development, but lack of nutrition will definitely affect your baby’s growth and development. Especially for newborns, breast milk is the most important ration, even if the baby has eczema should be breastfed as much as possible. Although there is no evidence that breastfeeding can stop the development of eczema in children, but for babies born within a few months, breastfeeding has a protective effect to reduce the severity of eczema, so breastfeeding should be encouraged. Nursing mistake 4: eczema with breast milk wash Folk useful milk wash ringworm, but this method is not scientific, with milk after the easy growth of bacteria, aggravate or induce eczema. This point must be clear! Many parents believe that their child’s eczema is caused by what food they eat, but regular dietary taboos are usually ineffective. Care mistake #5: Milk should be kicked out of baby’s recipe Milk and protein do tend to cause eczema, but the vast majority of infant eczema, especially newborn eczema, and food are not related. Unless it is confirmed that it is a food allergy by checking allergens, then take it off the table. This is because excessive food avoidance can cause malnutrition, and malnutrition can further aggravate eczema. Do not easily stop the milk consumed by artificially fed newborns! Care mistakes 6: hormone side effects, do not use the biggest misconception, is the problem of hormone use. Network propaganda talking about hormones feel that the side effects are too great and should never be used. In fact, the side effects of hormone creams are exaggerated. Parents’ concern that hormone medication will resist growth in young children only occurs when large doses of oral hormone medication are taken over a long period of time. Topical hormone creams are used to treat eczema, and the adverse effects of long-term use of these drugs are limited to the skin, manifesting as skin thinning or hyperpigmentation. As long as hormones are used wisely, they are safe even for long-term use and can be used intermittently.