Eczema & Moisturizing Skin

Video Transcript

"I like to use a very emollient cream on my daughter for her eczema. This is a thicker, almost pasty, substance that lasts a really long time. It takes a little while to work it into the skin, but what it does is retains that moisture and keeps her skin lubricated and coated so she doesn't have any kind of dry skin, which can in turn lead to a flare up. With eczema, the key factor is always keeping, making sure, that your skin is moisturized. That will prevent flare ups. And when you do have a flare up with eczema, the only treatment that will really help is seeing a pediatrician or a dermatologist who can prescribe some kind of a sterile cream, like a cortisone cream to get rid of that itchiness and then, in turn, you can help maintain a very good skin care regime with moisturizers. You don't want to have a flare up, a flare up is extremely painful especially for infants. Because they don't realize that they're even scratching themselves. If you have a flare up it's very itchy and uncomfortable. My daughter, when she was an infant, would scratch herself so much in her sleep that when we would wake up we would see blood on her face, she'd have scratches on her arms. We had to make sure that her nails were trimmed at all times. Something that, even as an adult, you would like to do is keep your nails short so you don't cause any abrasions as your scratching if you do scratch. We also had to put socks on her hands to protect her from scratching her face too much as well."