By Ida Dorsey


Eczema is an allergic reaction to the environment and foods that mainly affects little children. The reaction causes the skin to become inflamed, dry and sometimes it may ooze. There is nothing as bad as seeing your child suffer from this allergy. Treating this reaction naturally is way better than the use of artificial creams that are applied on the skin. The following are some tips on how to treat baby eczema naturally.

Tea tree is one of the most common natural remedies for baby eczema. This is a good remedy because it eases the child from pain by reducing itchiness. It is usually used when bathing the kid by adding it in their bath water every day. By doing this, some infections will be prevented from happening to the skin of the child.

Sometimes the eczema only affects the head of the child. This means that it is only their scalp that will need to be treated. In such a case, the tea tree oil can be added to a bottle of fragrance-free shampoo that will be used to wash the hair of the baby. When doing this, the care giver is supposed to leave the shampoo on the hair for about five minutes before rinsing to give it time to heal the skin.

After washing the baby, the nanny should dry him a little bit to remove the extra water but make certain the kid is not too dried. After doing this, witch hazel may be applied especially to the inflamed regions which will most probably be reddish. Witch hazel is nevertheless known to be too strong and therefore it should be weakened using some water.

The subsequent step in this curative process is kneading the infant with organic olive oil. The oil is recommended for the infant after being micro waved which is a means to warm it a little bit. After this step, raw sheer butter should be applied instantly on the entire body. This sheer butter assists in moisturizing the kid for the entire day.

If the baby is feeling itchy, Aloe Vera can be a good remedy for this feeling. It must be applied in the itchy areas. The above steps should be repeated every day. The results can start showing after around a week. Above all, all the reagents that cause this reaction should be eliminated to prevent this from ever happening again.

Once an infant is affected by this illness, very few remedies can be able to stop it utterly. The strategies stated above are simply ways that will assist to diminish the impacts of the allergy. Some babies have the disease reduce in time as they get old. Controlling the illness is however simpler for infants than older children because it is difficult to monitor what the child takes when they are out playing.

Eczema can nevertheless be prevented as stated by research. Kids born in a household with a history of this disease have a bigger chance of having it; therefore, they should be taken care of with extra care. Their mothers can also decrease their risk of having it by monitoring their diet while they are pregnant.




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