Question

A mother comes to the clinic with her 1-year-old child who has visible infantile eczema on his face. She remarks that she can’t have his picture taken due to the visible lesions and asks how long they will last or what she can do to eliminate them. What would be an appropriate nursing response to her concerns and questions?

Answer 1

Answer. The baby eczema is quite common in the new born infants. It may last within 2 to 6 months.

However, sometimes the mother needs to be careful thereafter too because sometimes 100% recovery is not there and the child faces problem in childhood too.

Meanwhile, the mother should not panic inspite of that she can help the child by:

• Avoiding harsh soaps and detergents.
• Avoiding dry air and sweat, thus maintaining cold conditions.
• Using mild cleansers like aquaphor, cetaphil.
• Avoid contact to pollen, thus big NO to flowers.
• Moisturising the skin with fragrance free, hypoallergenic product. So, dry skin should be avoided.
• Massaging with creams that contains colloidal oatmeal.

If condition does not becomes better then at the advice of doctor hydrocortisone ointments can also be started.