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Avoiding Cold Sores if You Have Eczema
A complication called eczema herpeticum is a serious skin infection that can result if you catch the virus that causes cold sores when your eczema symptoms are flaring. Here's how to guard against contact with cold sores.
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Probiotics No Help in Childhood Eczema
People with eczema have what is believed to be a disorder of cells of the immune system. Probiotics have been used as a treatment for eczema in children. But a Cochrane Collaboration review of 12 studies involving 781 children concluded that there is …
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Five-year-old boy begs mother to let him DIE because of his severe eczema
Pulling together in times of trouble, the Bishop family are at breaking point having tried almost every treatment available on the NHS including a form of chemotherapy. Dana, of Thetford, Surrey, explained: "We've lost part of Morgan's personality to …
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Toddler Eczema – Keeping Your Toddler’s Eczema Under Control

It is no secret that eczema is on the increase. Whether it is the cause of a less healthy diet with more additives and processing or because of increasing amounts of chemicals being added to bathroom products. This unfortunately is also the case for children with more bouts of toddler eczema being reported.

That being said, however, many toddlers who develop eczema on the skin, soon grow out of it and it is simply a phase. Many babies can also suffer with terrible eczema only to have it completely clear within months or weeks.

If you have a child with eczema that does not seem to be a phase, it is a good idea to first get the eczema diagnosed by your doctor and then move on to determining what is causing the eczema This may sound obvious but many parents just blindly accept the fate and try to live with it. This is understandable as eczema is largely a mystery, however there are ways to combat this skin disease.

Firstly, have your child tested with a skin test for all the common allergens, food and non-food (ask your doctor for this test). Common allergens are dairy foods, eggs, fish,wheat, nuts, dust and pollen. This test is not painful and can be performed very quickly and accurately.

Next remove these allergens from the diet/environment where possible. You might also want to clothe you child in cotton clothes only, as this material has been proven to cause no undue irritation to the skin unlike other materials such as polyester and other synthetic material. Also try to use non-biological and/or organic clothes washing powder as the lack of harsh chemicals is softer and less irritating to toddler eczema.

Try to keep your child’s diet as natural as possible. Even if the skin test did not show allergies to food additives such as coloring and flavoring, if your child has a propensity towards eczema, then avoiding these is a good idea.

There are many avoidance measures and natural remedies for eczema for eliminating eczema from the body that can be implemented easily. For a full guide to getting rid of eczema once and for all, continue to the Complete guide to treating Toddler Eczema.

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