Straight to the point – prepare your mindset
Before I even start just STOP using steroid creams!!! You’re creating a dependency. I used steroids on my baby since 3 months until his first birthday, totalling 9 months. I knew deep down we had to stop using these creams because it just kept coming back and coming back in different places. Eczema doesn’t run in my family. Literally NO ONE had it in my family. Doctors said it was genetic and I’m like from who? My husband never saw it either. Now kids are 1/4 with eczema and still the same and only solution is steroid creams? We’re literally doing the same thing hoping for change (using a steroid hoping it will go away then using another steroid hoping it will go away BUT IT DOESN’T) isn’t that the definition of insanity doing the same thing expecting different results. I was caught in this cycle too. I just wished and hoped so bad that this was the cream, this was it and it will take all of my baby’s problems away.
Trust your gut and pray to God before taking any doctors advise on stronger steroids or injecting them, antibiotics, stopping breastfeeding because doctors think its allergic to all of your milk. Doctors advised me to stop breastfeeding and thank God I didn’t listen. I just couldn’t and tried to give my baby a bottle and both of us were miserable. I searched up ‘eczema trigger foods’ and started avoiding all of those. I went to 3 dermatologists and they all recommended the same thing (you guessed it steroids). I started taking things into my own hands and was also so fixated on this eczema like how did this happen and how do I cure it? I was deep into forums, reddit, youtube, podcasts, internet, all things about eczema and just wanted to find one golden nugget or something somewhere of someone healing/curing their eczema. We’re in the clear now. It’s been a long journey and two different stories and experiences with my boys. You can get through it too. It’s gonna be a challenge but worth it to not be dependent on steroids.
I’m just sharing what helped us. When you’re in the thick of it you can’t see what’s working or not. You’re taking advice from everyone. You’re waiting 3 months for your dermatologist appointment but what are you supposed to do in the mean time?
Prepare your mind if you’ve been on steroids for a while to get ready to stop it could lead into a major flare up and turn into topical steroid withdrawal. If not, the skin is still gonna need healing, repairing and time! The hypochlorous acid spray helped us tremendously for all conditions of the skin (open, red, bleeding, yellow, dry, flakey) and let it dry and then use the anti-fungal cream paired with the baths explained.
The only reason I’m making this website is because it’s been almost 7 years since my first son got diagnosed with eczema. I’m still in eczema groups for parents and see the devastating photos of babies and their skin and parents being recommended the SAME THING!!! These doctors truly don’t know or have a solution yet… it breaks my heart because I know this pain and it was a thing of the past until again my 3rd baby got it too. Prayers you find the way. This way worked for us, it may not work for you but what it looks like that majority of us didn’t have eczema and now our babies got it. We’ve boiled it down to it being fungal.
Why kimowan?
Resources for Baby Eczema Warriors. Renew your Spirit with God’s rain.
Kimowan means rain. Only our Creator/God brings the rain. Only when fresh rain comes can new life be nourished and grow. Let go of your old way of thinking about this and renew it. Be open minded. This is gonna be a tough journey and with man it’s impossible, but with God, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
Psalm 68-9: You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.
God gave me rest. The crazy sleepless nights, I woke up and felt normal for once. He will restore you and all of your weariness if you call out to Him and just ask. Seek and you WILL FIND! (not might find… you will find)
There was and is plenty of the typical eczema websites explaining some blah blah blah but no solutions of how to help it. There’s everyone giving advice but they’re still using steroid creams or haven’t gotten into maintenance. Doctors 7 years ago and until now (who knows how much longer) still prescribe steroids and just get harder ones from there and even worse prescribe oral-antibiotics. Dermatologists are basically long-waited doctors and still prescribe, you guessed it, steroids! I don’t say this to sound harsh but it’s the way it went for me and I see many others too. I’m making this to share a way that worked. When you’re a new parents there’s just so much to handle and when you’re new to ‘eczema’ it’s like you’ve been hit by a train. The doctors don’t help (I’m sorry unless they did you wouldn’t be here) and your baby has only gotten worse with all their advice. I pray that all of this can help just one family and it’s worth it.
Jeremiah 17:5: This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD.”
I know you’re tired, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and you can pray to God to show you the way. Don’t even rely on what I have here. Pray to God to help you.
