Summary: Thicker moisturizing products for eczema are good for more susceptible areas. Get tips on using heavier lotions for eczema with expert tips in this free health video.
Audra Hartwig is a mother who has been a long time sufferer with severe environmental allergies (asthma/dust mites). Audra also has two children who have inherited those same allergies...read more
"To make sure that once you have the moisturizer on your skin, the great thing to do is to put an even thicker almost ointment like lotion on the skin as well. The areas that are more susceptible to eczema. Eczema really likes to show up in the creases of your arms, any kind of crease maybe behind your knees. My daughter has it on her fingers because she's always in contact with things. So we don't know if she has her eczema because of an allergy that she's touched, something she's allergic to or simply just because she touches her hands and scratches them quite a bit. So we use this product, it's a very rich ointment like product that we use. And it coats her skin, we've used it around her mouth and her nose. Because of her allergies her nose tends to drip a whole lot and she had a reaction to Vaseline, the petroleum in it. So we would like to do instead, we use the this product and it coats her lips; her nose for those times she's using a lot of Kleenex and her nose tends to get extremely raw. It's a great product to use and have on hand. I even carry little samples of it in my purse for emergency situations."