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When you have a baby you hope and expect that they will come out perfect in every way. You pray that everything you eat and do while your baby is in utero affects them in a positive way. I basically thought about this for 10 long months with each of my three pregnancies. I call these my crazy pants. I strap them on tight and don’t take them off until I’m holding my sweet babies in my arms.
With Kenya and Chloe I never had a day where I worried about them having food allergies as they never showed any signs of sensitives. I offered every food under the sun so they could enjoy a wide variety and they never had any reactions. With Gemma, though, it has been a different story. From the day she was born her skin was irritated and dry from eczema which was inevitably part of her diagnosis.
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We went to several allergists, I cut everything from dairy to gluten to sugar out of my diet for 5 long months. We finally discovered one of the causes being an egg allergy, but her eczema still hasn’t totally disappeared. There’s nothing more heart breaking than watching your child itch non stop whenever her clothes are off. Aside from changing my diet so my breastmilk is free of the foods we know are triggers, taking long warm baths and lubing her up with tons of moisturizing creams, there was little we could do to alleviate her pain.
We’ve always been conscious about the products we use in our home, but with anything that touches Gemma’s skin we have to be militant. We’ve always been big fan of the entire line of Seventh Generation products, but now with Gemma in diapers, using wipes on her skin several times a day and touching every surface around our home we’re even more aware. Watch this quick video to get even more ideas on how you can protect your children from pollutants, toxins and irritants and ideas of alleviating some of the possible causes of baby eczema in your home.
Coconut oil has been a go-to moisturizer for my little ones’ skin.
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I use non-toxic laundry soap, hand soap, body wash and switching our dish soap and dishwashing detergent also.
Less baths, good moisturizer.
Oh boy this would help us
My son has eczema. The only product i found useful for him is mustela brand. I put it on twice a day and within 3 minutes of him getting out of the bath to lock in the moisture. If he has any flare ups, i just mix in some 1% hydrocortisone cream with his lotion.
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We use baby sensitive skin products.
Aside from avoiding allergens, I find using shea butter to be a great way to nourish my little guy’s skin. He has very minor eczema during winter months and a little shea butter everyday takes care of it right away.
We use very gentle toxin-free bath soap and keep baths to a minimum in general. My oldest has eczema and multiple food allergies…sorry to hear Gemma does too 🙁
Great tips on coping with a fairly common childhood ailment 🙂 THANKS!!
My daughter had similar issues and we’ve had many battles with it. As a result some of our very close family members changed and eliminated chemicals, perfumes, etc. from themselves and their homes. My daughter improved but we still had trouble. Yeast ended up being the major problem. It was eliminated as well as virtually eliminating dairy and sugar. Will pray you find what works best for Gemma.
Keep nails short and moisturize after baths!
Oh poor little thing 🙁 my son had eczema until his food allergy diagnosis – peanuts, tree nuts, soy, legumes/pulses, coconut, sesame, shellfish, egg, sunflower, safflower, flax and mustard 🙁 it took us several tests to finally isolate all of his allergens, but once we did, the eczema and gives disappeared. It was so hard, especially as a vegan, to cut out all of these while breastfeeding, but I feel being super strict helped him outgrow half of these allergies. Good luck on figuring out what else could be causing your little one’s skin irritation – food allergies are no fun but at least manageable!