How to take care of your baby with eczema?

  Why do babies get eczema?  The milk with more sugar, mothers eating fish, shrimp, crab, beef and mutton are also susceptible to eczema; in addition, climate change, the stimulation of soap for washing and bathing, longer sunlight exposure to the skin, high room temperature, too thick clothing, sweating; wearing chemical fiber, woolen clothes, using chemical fiber fabrics for diapers, diapers are coarse and hard, or not very clean, residual alkaline substances of laundry detergent on diapers; and children suffering from indigestion When the child is suffering from indigestion, diarrhea, can induce eczema.  In addition, the child’s skin is delicate and prone to metamorphosis, so many of these factors can cause infant eczema. The mother must take into account the specific situation of her child and analyze it carefully to find the cause.  How do I care for my baby with eczema?  The principle of eczema treatment and care is to remove the cause and treat the symptoms.  If you can find the cause and remove it, if you consider milk as the cause of allergy, you should insist on mother’s milk feeding and continue breastfeeding until 2 years old, but the mother should limit the intake of milk products. If maternal milk feeding is not possible and cow’s milk protein allergy is preferred to amino acid formula or deeply hydrolyzed protein formula, partially hydrolyzed protein formula and soy formula are not recommended.  The main symptomatic treatment is to relieve the symptoms. Use eczema creams on the eczema, but not hydrocortisone creams on the face, which can easily make the face pigmented. The actual fact is that you can use a lot of hot water and soap to wash your face and bathe, but you can use lukewarm water to wash, and you can also use 3% boric acid water to wet compress. In serious cases, under the guidance of a physician, take anti-allergy drugs such as paracetamol, fenugreek and benadryl. Although corticosteroids are effective, they have many side effects and are best not used.  During the period of illness, you should take care of your child, cut his fingernails short, wear gloves when sleeping, and do not scratch the affected area. The child’s pillowcase and quilt cover should be changed regularly, do not give the child wear chemical fiber and wool clothes, use soft cotton diapers, mothers eat less or do not eat allergy-prone food, and do not touch the child suffering from chicken pox, so as not to worsen the condition.