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.

One of the more known eczema treatments are topical steroids. Many people who have eczema look for other ways to treat their eczema than using steroids because they are able to cause side effects. Before we talk about some of the other treatments for eczema, we will talk about how to use steroids safely so that they do not cause a problem.

The reason why steroids are such a popular and well known eczema treatment is because they are good at what they do. The goal of steroids is to stop the fires of inflammation from burning out of control. A certain amount of inflammation in your body is good because that is what the body uses to fight off irritations and infections. However, when inflammation levels are too high it poses threats of different sicknesses to your body.

When inflammation levels are low enough that other medicines can deal with it steroids can be avoided, but in the case of an emergency, steroids have been proven helpful at restoring calm to troubled skin.

To keep yourself out of harms way when it comes to using steroids, you need to make up your mind to follow prescribed instructions, and not try to do it your way. This is often the cause of the troubling eczema cases that involve steroid use.

When applying steroid medicines you will want to clean the affected area where the medicine is going to be applied first. You do not want to be in a situation where you have an irritant on your skin and you just reach for your steroid and put it on. You want to make sure that your skin is first clean of anything that may act as an irritant when you rub this medicine in, otherwise the irritant will be rubbed into and absorbed by the skin as well.

After washing pat the area dry, and apply a thin even film to the affected area and massage it into the skin.

Be careful that you do not apply anything else to your skin for at least half an hour after having applied your steroid medicine. You do not want to end up with a situation where you have medicines and chemicals clashing within your skin. Your skin is already ailing; you do not want to burden it with new work to do.

You are also likely to find that two applications of steroids per day should be enough to get the benefits you want to achieve.

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