STOP USING STEROID CREAMs!
It works until it doesn’t and then a stronger one works until it doesn’t
Majority of doctors and dermatologists don’t have a real solution or actual results of patients who recovered using their solutions.
My first son got eczema at 3 months
Simple steroid cream turned into dependency for 9 months and then TOPICAL STEROID WITHDRAWAL HELL!!! The first month was rough and the next few months we barely slept. His skin was red, dry, itchy, flakey and elephant skin. It took about 8-9 months for his face to look ‘normal’ but still dealt with flares here and there until the 1 year mark for sure and onwards was maitenance
Trying whatever I can try hoping it would work
It was always about finding the next cream that would solve everything. Went to multiple doctors and 3 dermatologists who all prescribed steroids. Went to allergist 2x for bloodwork and found a list of food allergies. I wanted a real non-toxic solution.
My second son got eczema at 3 months again
Everything that worked for my first didn’t work and I was at my breaking point. My baby got it at 3 months and at 9 months his face was worse than ever. I didn’t know what else to do but pray. I called out to God for help, rest and wisdom on what to do and He answered… slowly I found solutions for my boy.
It’s all FUNGAL!!!!
When these red patches begin and also spread, using the spray and fungal cream helped control it and kill the fungus. My daughter had zero issues until it started developing behind her knees at 3 years old. We used anti-fungal cream and it went away. Pictures all included. There is mold lurking around.
Resources for Baby Eczema & TSW
My experience with my babies with eczema. It’s not genetic from anyone in my family. Don’t let doctors gaslight you that it came from you or your partner (when you never seen it before in your life). You’re brand new into treating “eczema” forgive yourself and you’re doing the best you can given the information you got. Here are the methods I use to maintain clear skin for my babies now. My first son has food/dust allergies and the other two don’t.
Baby Eczema Tips
How to clean open wounds, oozing, yellowing, dry flakes, itchy bumps
Use the hypochlorous acid spray (fine on open wounds) let it dry as much as possible and add the anti-fungal creams (clotrimazole/miconazole) 2-3x a day. Morning, noon and bedtime. As it gets better 2x a day. Make sure your hands are clean too. Alternate the 2 fungal creams one week on (clotrimazole for example and one week on miconazole) and off. If it’s bad find an antibiotic + antifungal cream combo and use that until the yellow goes away and back to regular antifungal cream.
Now that we are in maintenance and all is at bay I’m using the herbal anti fungal creams you can find in resources pictures of.
Avoid creams with parabens, Paraffins, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES), which can cause skin irritation, parfum there’s more just research it. I started making my own creams with zinc (like tallow/zinc) but ended up just sticking with the anti-fungal ones.
Diet & Nutrition
There are eczema trigger foods (cow’s milk/dairy, peanuts, eggs, soy products, wheat, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish). Limit sugar as much as possible. High protein diet like meat and eggs (if allergy to egg white like my son, I just let him eat the yellow and it has more nutrients). Add cod liver oil, eat liver if possible (loaded with vitamins) and supplement extra vitamins/minerals like vitamin D3 +k2, zinc, vit C. From animal sources is best.
If you’re breastfeeding, I would keep breastfeeding. Just cut out dairy and typical allergen foods. It takes time for it to come out but it’s better than formula. Your milk is better than formula. Don’t let doctors make you feel insecure about it. Breastfeeding is the most beautiful thing in the world.
Research enterosgel to help the gut lining. I gave enterosgel to my first son for 3 weeks straight and then later a couple times a week for almost year.
I also noticed when baby got sick with fever his inflammation everywhere else went down it was calm. I think maybe because his body went to fight the other infection but this always happened the redness went down a lot.
Bathing & Moisturizing
From oatmeal baths, bleach baths to that never really made a difference to figuring out solutions on my own. Baths that mocked the sea. I would use dead sea salts then just used regular table salt with iodine or without and added magnesium. Now I also combine it with baking soda. Also washed with anti-fungal soap. We bathed almost every other night.
1 cup salt, half box of baking soda in bath (can add magnesium) and wash with antifungal soap. Dry up and spray with the hypochlorous acid spray let it dry again too and then apply the antifungal cream. Cover up baby with 100% cotton long sleeve shirt and pants to avoid opening any wounds.
Clothing & Lifestyle
100% cotton clothing only. Anything with polyester will irritate the skin. Consider all your bedding too.
Zero perfume everything (dish soap, laundry detergent, fabric cleaner, everything! find for sensitive skin and with zero perfume)
Try to get real vitamin D sunshine. Body can absorb it better.
During topical steroid withdrawal my son had so much skin flakes falling off him we bought a hand vacuum to clean our bed 2x a day.
Steroid-Free Solutions
If I could go back with my first son, I would never use a steroid on him knowing what I know now.
The method we used was understanding our eczema was fungal and using the spray & anti-fungal creams.
Spray areas, let it dry, apply anti-fungal creams 2-3x/day.
This will take time and not produce the crazy fast results the steroids did in the beginning. Take it all one day at a time.
These methods keep our ‘eczema’ at bay. If which has become rarely now, any flare ups occur, we continue this routine.
Finding God
On the brink of burnout and hopelessness until I called out to God for help. What did I have to lose? So I prayed. Prayers that saved us.
Father, I feel drained and exhausted. Renew my spirit, Lord. Let your living water refresh my soul, and may your Holy Spirit rejuvenate my body and mind. Thank you for your promise of strength to the weary. Amen
Father, I feel I’ve tried everything in my power. I need your guidance for a fresh start. Open my eyes to new possibilities and lead me in a direction I haven’t considered. Help me to see through your eyes. Amen.
God, grant me the wisdom to see what I’ve been missing. I’ve tried every avenue I know, but I need your insight to understand where to go from here. Please reveal your plan for me. Amen.
Lord, I’ve leaned on my own understanding for too long. Help me to trust in you with all my heart. Make my paths straight, even when I can’t see the way. I surrender my weariness to you. Amen
EXTRA – finding ways naturally
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My first son has all the crazy food allergies we tested him at 2.5 years old through bloodwork. We did another test about 1 year later and his allergies were 1 less. He’s severely allergic to milk protein. Allergic to the rest like egg white, peanuts, seeds, sesame seeds, gluten, flour, potatoes was on there. He’s almost 7 and I make omelettes everyday for him, just beaten eggs and his body can handle it mixed with the egg white. He can handle butter and 10% cream milk because there’s like 0.4g of protein. It’s the protein in the milk that messes him up where he will get hives and bumps on his face/body. We used that enterosgel for about a year and still keep some in the cupboard. Not sure if that helped a lot with his gut lining and allergies but he can way more foods now than before without flare ups. He still gets a little itchy from time to time but nothing crazy like the red angry patches.
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He’s had a couple ear infections that were really bad and of course prescribed antibiotics. We found a natural solution that helped (because I even got ear infection for once a year for like 3 years in a row. Went to an ear doctor and they prescribed steroids/antibiotics drops for my ears which I tried but still suffered the pain and eventually they said I would probably need some surgery in my ear. What helped us is GARLIC OIL!! You can get off amazon or iherb and use like 1-2 drops of garlic oil per 20 drops extra virgin olive oil. It must be diluted with another oil otherwise it’ll BURN!! I learnt this the hard way on myself. Since that one original treatment I did after finding out about garlic oil, these earaches/infections never came back and also for my son too. My daughter couldn’t speak so well yet and complained about her ear. I did the garlic oil drops and later a bunch of crap/wax came out and she was good after that.