My Baby Has Eczema: Trying Natural Methods Again
Last week I shared about how we found a new doctor when we moved and eventually started using the steroid Triamcinalon. Once the pediatrician had exhausted his store of resources, and after a couple visits to an allergist proved that we were already doing everything conventional medicine had to offer, we decided to try a naturopath recommended by the pediatrician.
Dr. Dramov in Tigard
Dr. Dramov has got to be one of the nicest doctors I have ever met. Unlike your average MDs, he greets his patients in the waiting room and goes with them through every step of the visit. If he has an assistant other than the receptionist, I haven’t seen one. He acted like he has all day, asking me several times per visit if there is anything else I want to ask–very thorough.
During the first visit, he went over Manny’s history of eczema and asked what we were giving him. Then he asked me to try several things: upping the probiotics he was already taking, adding quercitin, switching from the digestive enzyme we were using to one with ox bile in it, and adding in evening primrose oil. We were to make one change per week, and to not add the next thing if we noticed improvement.
Well, we did our best, but nothing made the slightest difference. I had gotten him to where I was using the Triamcinalon only every other day most of the time, but I couldn’t taper off more than that. He would just get worse if I tried.
B12 Shots and a New Probiotic
At the next visit, he told me that he had just been to some kind of medical convention to learn more about the treatment of eczema. He said there were two things that seemed to help that we weren’t already doing: B12 supplements, either sublingual or shots, and a special probiotic called InfaSkin. He had ordered the InfaSkin, but it hadn’t arrived yet. My husband picked it up later.
He asked me how I wanted to do then B12. Because I wasn’t sure how well the sublinguals would work on such a small child (by this time he was just weeks away from his second birthday), I opted for the shots. He showed me how to give them, doing the first one himself. Then he sold me the tiny vial of serum and enough insulin syringes to last a month. I bought a sharps container at the drug store, and have since gotten so good at them that my son actually likes his daily shot!
It was almost two weeks after that visit that my husband was able to stop and get the InfaSkin probiotics. We started him on them on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Within two days, I knew they were doing something; I hadn’t reached for the Triamcinalon since his first dose! In fact, he was able to go 4 or 5 days without it–his longest stretch ever! I still used the hydrocortisone 2.5%, but I was actually using less of it. As you can imagine, I was thrilled! This was the first non-drug anything to actually make a difference!
Further Tests
At this second visit, the doctor also ordered stool and blood tests. We will get the results of those tests at our next visit, which will be next Friday
A couple of weeks after starting the Infaskin, I received samples of Renew lotion. Rather than repeat myself, I’ll just refer you to the post that tells what results Renew had on my son.
This brings the story up-to-date. I will continue to post updates as they occur. Now it’s your turn. Would you like to share your story? If so, please contact me; I would love to publish others’ stories here on this blog.
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Hi
I’ve been following your story with much interest. My son Sam also has eczema. He developed it when he was 8 weeks old and is now 9 months old. He has little patches all over his body and recently after I tried to introduce some Salmon in his diet he developed a nasty rash across his tummy and his back. I’ve been using Hydorcortisone 0.1 % as the weaker steriod and Eumovate ointment which is a moderate steroid when the flare up is bad (which is pretty much all the time) I am convinced that his diet is the biggest cause and have therefore been weaning very carefully and have not introduced any allergenic foods or foods high in acid such as citrus fruits and tomatoes. I am really interested in finding out if this infraskin Probiotic has helped your son as I have heard before that probiotics can be very beneficial for eczema sufferers. We currently use diprobase ointment to moisturize his skin but I am interested in hearing about this renew cream – please provide an update as I would like to know if I should purchase these for my son
Angie
Hi Angie,
Yes, I would highly recommend the InfaSkin probiotic. At worst, it doesn’t help and you lose some money; at best, it makes a significant improvement. You may want to talk to a doctor about it–as a non-medical person I think it is just a good idea, especially if you have a good doctor willing to consider natural approaches.
As to the Renew, you need to be a member of Melaleuca to get it. I will tell you more about it in an email later on today or this weekend–as soon as I get a chance.
In the mean time, good luck!
Hi–
I am a m om who has a son who suffered from eczema. I found that B12 is excellent for eczema as your doctor said and I also use probiotics. I don’t use the Maleleuca brand since I make my own from fermented foods.
I can share though that eczema is NOT a sickness from the skin but the inside of your body, the skin problem is only a manifestation of what is going on inside. Continue the B12 and the probiotics. Start playing detective with the foods your little one intakes. One thing at a time. Eliminate one suspicious food one week, then wait…see the results if nothing happens then try a second one and try again…and so forth. this method will help you discover the main culprits and in conjunction with the B12 and the probiotics it can help A LOT!
I actually have a page on my site about the benefits of B12, I also have there some pictures of my son. You can go there and check out all the info I have put together. Also i am encouraging eczema sufferers to submit their questions as I am trying to put together a section to answer them.
I hope this helps!
Hi I saw your answer on yahoo about baby eczema. My daughter had HORRIBLE eczema, we took her to over 20 doctors. Steroids were not an option, I was afraid of the effects. But she was COVERED head to toes, just thinking about it makes me cry. It was the worst time in our lives. No one could help us, creams, diets, nothing helped. If you need some photo proof my husband has the pictures on his computer I could send to you, they are horrifying, I swear people thought she was diseased or something. The ironic thing is we are such a healthy family, I ate all organic while pregnant, I have no idea what caused this.
Anyway we finally saw Dr. Jing in Santa Monica, tcmhealingcenter.com and she gave a cream and powder and our baby was healed within 48 hours. It was amazing. Please contact them!! I don’t know where you live, but please just call and talk to them. Dr. Jing is chinese so she may be hard to understand if you speak directly to her, but after my daughter was healed I went on a mission to help others, and EVERYONE who went to her had their baby clear up. It’s a little tube of cream and this amazing powder, it gave us our daughter back. And it wasn’t even expensive. Right now I am pregnant with number 2, due any day and I wanted to take some free time to try to help others. My daughter has been clear for a year and a half now and we’ve been so busy enjoying life, I’ve forgotten there may be other babies who need help. My daughter not only was covered in scaly rashes, so bad I hated to even touch her skin, she was soooo fussy, always needed to be held, cried all the time, after she was fixed she became such a dream baby. Funny, sweet, happy, if your daughter is anything like mine, please call or email me with anymore question!
Samantha
Hi Samantha,
your testimonial sounds promising. can you please give me your email coz i want to find out more and ask several questions about it? thanks!
By the way we tried everything, but steroids. Creams, probiotics, neem oil, shea butter, vitamins, oh my god we did everything. Please contact them, or me if you have anymore questions, want to see pictures, etc. I am just trying to help as many people before our new baby arrives and I have no time. It’s so easy when your life becomes amazing to forget everything we went through, we actually purposely don’t think about it, but the fact that other babies are still in pain breaks my heart. Please contact them or me!!
Sorry I keep remembering new stuff, we did allergy tests too, we had a huge chart or allowed foods and every day a new one on the ‘allowed’ list would get crossed off after flaring up her symptoms, It was such a joke! We were afraid to feed her everything!
Hi:
I had the same problem with my son. He was born with perfect skin until he developed eczema at around 2 months. I have tried every cream, prescription hydrocortisone 2%, Aveeno, California Baby, Shea Moisture Baby, Vitamin E oil, tea tree oil, A&D ointment, Triple Paste, and they did not work. Then I read a blog from a mother who had the same experience. She showed pictures of her children before and after excluding diary and wheat from her diet. What happens is that if you are breastfeeding, the dairy and wheat pass through the milk to the baby triggering the allergy which manifests as eczema. You have to monitor your diet as a breast feeding Mom. I have excluded wheat and dairy from my diet for two weeks and my little one’s skin is much improved. Some times I forget and eat pasta-or some other disguised form of wheat and he has a flare up, but it is worth it. He sleeps through the night without the constant itching and bleeding.
Hi Shelli,
I wish it had been that simple for me! I was on a very strict diet back when I was still breastfeeding, which included no wheat or dairy, as well as a lot of other things excluded. He is on an even stricter diet now, and still breaks out, but he has majorly improved. I’m so glad you were able to find the cause of your son’s eczema! You were spared a lot of grief. And definitely those two (along with soy and eggs) are the first things nursing mothers should suspect.
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