How to treat baby eczema? What are the precautions for baby eczema?

Baby eczema requires comprehensive treatment, including exclusive breastfeeding, personal hygiene, and avoiding various factors that cause skin irritation. When eczema is severe, medication should be used and the doctor's advice should be followed. Appropriate medication combined with daily family care can be beneficial to treatment. At the same time, attention should be paid to keeping the house ventilated to avoid causing allergies in the baby.

Now we can find that more and more babies suffer from eczema, and many babies are prone to allergies. When you see your baby's face full of eczema, you are full of guilt and self-blame. Because eczema is accompanied by severe itching, parents try all kinds of ways to treat their babies, hoping to relieve their pain. So how to treat baby eczema?

1. Exclusive breastfeeding

Breast milk is the best food for babies, but many mothers do not want to breastfeed their babies in order to maintain their figure. Breastfeeding must be promoted and carried out. Breastfeeding is very important for babies, especially for babies with sensitive constitutions. Breastfeeding is the most important way to prevent eczema.

2. Pay attention to your baby’s personal hygiene

The baby's personal hygiene is also an important cause of the occurrence and development of eczema, so parents must take good care of the baby's personal hygiene and pay attention to some details in life, such as cutting the baby's nails frequently. Because eczema cannot be scratched, cutting nails is to prevent them from scratching the affected area. Another thing to note is that the material of the clothes for the baby should be pure cotton.

3. Avoid various factors that cause skin irritation

When a baby suffers from eczema, it is important to be careful not to irritate the affected area. For example, hot water and soap cannot be used to avoid irritation and worsening of the condition. Parents can wipe with sterilized vegetable oil or paraffin oil to help relieve the symptoms of baby eczema.

4. Use medication appropriately

In fact, the most effective way to treat eczema is oral or intravenous corticosteroids. Many babies can control their eczema after taking the medicine, but the disadvantage is that it is easy to relapse after stopping the medicine, and it cannot cure eczema. Parents must pay attention to these two points when treating baby eczema, that is, combining appropriate medication with daily family care, and at the same time, they must do a good job of home hygiene, keep the environment clean, reduce dust, keep the house ventilated, etc., to avoid causing allergies in the baby.