Here are 4 more things that you want to be careful about when bathing your baby.
Soapy Water
You will also want to be careful that you not have him sitting in soapy water either. Just as soon as you have completed washing the areas that you intend to wash with soap, you will want to get your baby out of the soapy water. That can also have a bad effect on his skin.
Drying him off
Always remember that he has sensitive skin that begins to itch very easily. When you are through bathing him, you will want to pat him with a towel until he is dry. He should not be rubbed dry, as rubbing with a towel can put the itch-scratch cycle in motion.
For that matter, you will also want to avoid using a wash cloth when you are bathing him. The reason is that wash cloths can sometimes be abrasive, and lead to itching.
Emollient
Emollient is another word for moisturizer. Choosing a moisturizer is important, the reason being that you will use a lot of it. You want to use a heavier moisturizer for your baby. The reason why you will want to use a heavy moisturizer is so that you will not have to reapply it too often. When a moisturizer is used very frequently, it has the adverse effect of causing skin thinning.
For best results, you will want to put his moisturizer on within the first three minutes that he came out of the bath. This would seal moisture from the bath into his skin, and keep it moist for a longer period of time.
When you do apply the moisturizers, you will want to use generous amounts of it.
An important thing that you should keep in mind when choosing your moisturizer is that you need to choose one that contains no lanolin. Lanolin is used in more than 90% of all cosmetics and skin creams, but it is a problem for babies with eczema.
Bath Treatments
The only time you should stray away from these bath guidelines is when you are giving your baby a treated bath. That is, if you are using a bath additive for the purpose of treating an eczema related condition.
For example Epsom salts and Dead Sea Salts both work to heal the most severe of eczema cases. However it will take more than a 5 minute bath to receive the full effects of the treatment. In this case, the bath can be as short as 15 minutes, and as long as 18 minutes, but no longer. You will not have to worry about his skin drying out in these treatments, as these treatments are designed to increase skin moisture at the same time.
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Broyde McDonald is an experienced writer on the subject of Baby Eczema Treatments.
