Iman Eczema

Hello there little darling ...

Trying to take the shirt off ? One hot day huh ?

After the peeling skin episode, came eczema for a few months.  There were rashes like (the skin was red) on her cheeks, ears, neck, inside her elbows and on her knees   She would scratched and scratched all those places which made it worst and the skin broke .  We were prescribed aqua cream by the doctors, small container at first then the biggest tub that they can gave us.  I was sad to see her scratching, wished I was the one having the itch instead of her.  We were told not to bathe her with soap but to use the aqua cream instead.  We did used the mildest soap which we could find to wash her bottom after her 'business'.  I browsed the net in hope to find any information and cure (if there was any) of eczema... unfortunately I came to a conclusion that there is no cure for eczema !   I was sad to think that what Iman had to live with for the rest of her life...  We used to light the salt lamp while she was sleeping after I was told that salt lamp is good for respiratory illnesses like sinus and good for the skin too.  Salt lamp effect on Iman?  I didn't see any clear result but one thing for sure, my blocked nose was better.  I could breath better while lying down or sleeping.  Then, I just had an idea to use virgin coconut oil (VCO) on Iman as a remedy for her eczema.  I had been reading about the VCO before but not about it as eczema' remedy.  So we started to buy VCO, bottle after bottle and rub it on Iman, all over her body from head/hair to toes... she smelt like 'dodol'.  For quite some times, we began to see improvement on her.  Less dry skin, less itchiness, less redness and of course less scratching.  Sometimes I rubbed in calamine cream on the worst red itchy skin.  We were happy to see her improved skin condition.  But the problem was still there... we believed that the baby sitter didn't or put on too little aqua cream on her troubled skin (we gave the baby sitter the cream to use while Iman was in her care while we were at work).  It ended up a scar at the back of Iman shoulder, the mark of her scratching, and the scar will be there for life !  Well, others won't cared for our child like we did, of course !  Some were just doing it for money.  We made it a practice to pay before the job was even done in that month...and I paid her on that very moment after she had asked for more money... there were few more incidents which we were not happy with the sitter...Back to eczema story... I left my milk for the sitter to give to Iman while she was caring for her ( I pumped my milk while at work).  But then she began to make noises about Iman hadn't had enough milk (not so sure about this, or may be she was too lazy to warm up my milk; I even gave her a bottle warmer to ease her job!).  So, in the end we provided the sitter with baby formula; soya milk that was, because of her eczema. 

After her one year birthday (she was no longer BF), her eczema was gone.  No more redness on her skin, no broken skin, gone ... Alhamdulillah... thank you Allah... she seemed cured... and I prayed it won't come back, ever again...  We concluded that the best remedy for eczema is VCO !

Visible sign of eczema on her cheek.

Her skin improving.

A year old Iman ...  without eczema.

Will be writing soon...