My 1 year old daughter has real bad eczema. The Aveeno cream works well on her skin and the shampoo is good too, but only afeective for a day and i don’t know if it’s in her hair, but she constantly scratches her hair and her hair is so brittle that it falls out. Almost all of her long and pretty use to be hair is gone. Does anyone know a way to cure eczema in hair and the scratching?
The best thing to do is to focus on treating the underlying cause of the eczema and minimize the flare ups by:
- bathing using warm, not hot, water and a very mid soap
- using a cream or petroleum jelly based moisturizer on wet skin after bathing or washing hands.
- moisturize throughout the day as the need arises. Avoid using lotions as they tend to dry out the skin
- pat excess water from skin after moisturizing as rubbing irritates the skin
- wear cotton clothing
- avoid the use of detergents, fabric softeners and dryer sheets with perfumes and/or dyes
There’s a really great article on this website about how one woman with severe eczema was finally able to beat it: http://www.beateczema.com/?hop=4safetynow
