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 most annoying things about having eczema is having to deal with the extremely itchy rashes. Sometimes the itching can be so fierce that the rash begins to sting and swell. If you scratch the patch of skin that is breaking out, you will most likely open the rash, thereby exposing it to oxygen and making it susceptible to infectious bacteria. This is probably the worst effect of eczema, because if the rash becomes infected, then you are dealing with a real danger to your health. Once the rash becomes infected, unless it is treated with antibiotics, the infection spreads into the blood stream and eventually to your heart and brain, causing heart attack and/or stroke leading to permanent organ damage (including brain), and/or death!

So you can see why it is so important to stop the scratching, to not only to avoid infection but to heal the patch of skin that is being affected by the rash.

Before you go to bed every night, make sure you you drink at least two 8oz glasses of water. This will keep your body hydrated and prevent your skin from drying up so much overnight. Most of the time, the rashes become worse overnight because you do not drink anything while you are asleep. Plus when people sleep they tend to shift from time to time. This combined with dehydration of the skin during sleep, is why you should always make sure you are well hydrated before going to bed. Also note, unless you want to wake up in the middle of the night often to use the restroom, make sure you urinate before you go to bed.

You should also apply lotion at night. Try to use a lotion that is chemical free and natural, like coconut oil and hemp oil. If you have an existing rash, then gently rub aloe vera on it before you go to sleep. Also try to sleep in sheets and blankets that do not irritate your skin.

The reason why doing these things before you go to sleep is so important, is because most people scratch while they are sleeping. Usually if you are itching very badly at night, you will scratch it to get back to sleep. To prevent yourself from irritating the rash and turning it into an open wound, you should wear cotton gloves. If you do not have a pair of gloves, then use cotton sock on your hands to make sure you do not open a rash with your fingernails.