I hate using them but he seems to always have some kind of spot. The docs encourage me to try and clear him up but I never seem to be able to do that. I actively use cerave and vanicream ( although lately I feel like one or both may be irritating his skin) . Any other ideas? I'm nervous what hydrocortisone may be doing to him long term.
He is currently on elecare so he does not have any of his allergies in his diet ( egg peanut and mild dairy allergy) I am now 100% convinced something else may also be the culprit as he is super itchy with some worsening eczema patches. Overall his skin is not horrible looking. It it's really affecting everyone's sleep and I'm so frustrated as to why it gets better than worse even on elecare ( we have also tried neocate)
Re: Anyone else have to use steroid creams everyday?
Eczema can also be related to environmental allergies. DS #1 is allergic to cats and dogs and was allergic to dust mites, along with other environmental allergies we can't control (he also has food allergies). Once we got rid of as many of his environmental allergies as possible (we had cats and dogs and of course dust mites are in carpet and all over) by rehoming our pets and using sprays for dust mites, his skin got a lot better.
We use elocon and when he has an outbreak, I usually only have to put that on his skin about two or three times in the course of 48 hours and the outbreak is completely gone. So we are no longer using steroids on a daily basis, maybe only once every few months.