When your baby has eczema you want to stop the flare up before it begins. An old adage that holds true in this case is the saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Seeing that you are reading this page you must be ready for that ounce of prevention and that is what I am going to give you right now.
I think it is important that you know that baby eczema treatments are continually changing as new information emerges. A relatively new change in the world of eczema treatments is that the basic belief of what causes eczema has changed. It was believed that the cause of eczema had deep roots in a malfunctioning immune system. The belief is now that eczema is caused primarily by skin barrier defects. This means that your study and hunt for information will probably be ongoing for a while, but you can expect that news will be coming to you faster and faster as this new way of thinking is explored.
Stopping the flare up before it starts
When trying to contain eczema, it is important first of all that you have an idea of what causes your baby’s eczema to flare. Is the eczema atopic, or is it allergy based. If it is atopic then the first thing you will want to do is treat your environments for dust mites. If it is allergy related you will want to discover the source of the allergy.
The next thing you will want to do is to always keep his skin moist. Eczema is a disease that uses itchy skin to get its program going. De-hydration is one of the more frequent reasons why a persons’ skin might itch, and once the itching begins if not properly treated it increases in intensity, and becomes a full grown problem.
Another successful way of stopping a flare before it begins is to “pre treat” the condition. A study was conducted where the strength of an eczema medicine was reduced, and instead of waiting on a flare up to occur, the lowered dosage treatment was used twice weekly. The results were quite impressive. A portion of the group was given the medicine and another part given a placebo. The group with the medicine reported flare ups occurring once every 5 months, and the group with the placebo once every 2 weeks. This explains to us that pre treatment is a good method to use to stop an eczema flare before it begins.
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