Sammy's Skin: Something is working

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Something is working

Well I am not seeing the immediate results of soap bathing - as in, clear skin minutes later- but I am seeing definite results and that is the important thing. I wrote in my post yesterday how Sam came home from Grandma's with a red rashy face and arms. I washed him off in the bath with Dr. B's Baby Mild Castille bar soap and puzzled over not having it 'wash away' before my eyes, but when Sam woke up this morning his face is 90% clearer and arms and hands 75%. So it is working! Perhaps his skin just so weak and sensitive that it takes longer to see the healing. I never would have seen clearing like that with his regular eczema, normally those rashes existed in the same place for weeks or until we slathered them in hydrocortisone cream.

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I am CJ, mother of three. Our youngest, Sam, has had eczema from birth. At 9 months that eczema became severe (covering 95% of the body). From that time forward Sam's body was constantly inflamed with the only relief coming from topical steroids and other drugs. As soon as we'd stop a drug, Sam's skin would flare right back up from head to toe. I knew this band-aid method would never get to the root of the problem. Like many mothers of children with eczema, I quickly became frustrated with the lack of answers from our pediatrician and allergist and unwilling to accept that a lifetime of steroid cream and allergy medication is the only cure. I knew there must be something causing the eczema that we could uncover and eliminate. This is the record of our journey- how I came to find a long term and drug-free solution for Sam's eczema.