Dietary considerations for severe eczema in infants

Many newborn babies will inevitably suffer from eczema. Eczema in babies is a sign of fetal toxin excretion. Many parents may not know how to provide good prevention for their children. Failure to prevent and care in time is likely to cause the child's eczema to become too severe.

1. If the child has eczema, the mother should avoid eating fish, shrimp, crab, eggs and spicy foods during breastfeeding, and also avoid drinking alcohol.

2. The child's diet should be regular and quantitative, and it is best to eat breast milk. If the child drinks milk, add more water and less sugar, and the milk should be boiled for a little longer. In addition, if the child has indigestion, he or she should receive timely treatment.

3. Avoid letting irritating substances come into contact with your child's skin, especially your child's eczema. Do not apply oil-rich skin care products to the affected area. At the same time, avoid using soap and hot water to wash the affected area.

4. The room temperature should be maintained at a suitable level, as a high room temperature will aggravate the itching of eczema.

5. Children should be dressed in soft, loose cotton or fine fabric underwear, and should avoid wearing chemical fiber fabrics. In addition, woolen fabrics and woolen clothes should be avoided for both inner and outer clothes. Babies' diapers should be washed and changed frequently.

6. Children can be given 0.2% diphenhydramine syrup orally. The dosage should be calculated at 1 to 2 mg per kilogram of body weight per day, taken 3 to 4 times a day. Children can also be given oral chlorpheniramine, with the dosage calculated at 0.35 mg per kilogram of body weight per day, taken in 3 to 4 times a day.

7. For eczema that is not large in area and has mild symptoms, you can apply glucocorticoid ointment (such as Pi Yan Ping ointment, compound dexamethasone cream, etc.) to the affected area. However, since such drugs have certain side effects, they need to be used under the guidance of a doctor and should not be applied too thickly. For children with seborrheic eczema, you only need to apply some vegetable oil (such as tea oil) on the affected area regularly to make the scab gradually soften and fall off.

Above we have learned about severe eczema in babies. First of all, children’s skin is relatively tender, and this kind of phenomenon is very easy to occur. We should actively prevent and care for it in life, especially starting with the mother’s diet.