Fighting eczema

My son has eczema.

It first appeared when he was 3 1/2 years old. It appeared as small raised dry itchy lesions with some redness Lactacyd Baby Bath on this left thigh. I thought it was fungal, good thing it was not. Eczema as per the books says, is hereditary. Makes sense in Albert's case since this seems to run in my family (two sisters and my grandmother). Asthma as well, which in my son's case likewise appeared almost the same time his eczema manifested. But his asthma was mild, and appears only whenever he got too rowdy at playing.

Some people mistakenly considers eczema as infectious. It is NOT.

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His eczema seemed to worsened when I switched his toiletries from Oilatum & Lactacyd for kids to organic shampoo & body wash of Human Heart Nature. Maybe he's just not hiyang. HHN can be a bit drying to the skin, which if you have eczema will make it worse. So I switched him to Cetaphil for his body wash, while retaining HHN as his shampoo.

I also bought  Elica (mometasone) ointment for the topical treatment of  his eczema (as prescribed by his pediatrician, so please consult first your pediatric dermatology on this one and do not self treat especially with kids).

I'm also adding Clusivol multivitamins for kids for him. His appetite has not improved much with Appebon appetite vitamins for kids.

Namaste!