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26 Jan 2016, 2:55 pm

Anachron wrote:
My wife called again and got in to the dermatoligist Tuesday. I had jury duty the same day so I don't know what was said and I couldn't ask my questions. We are giving him oatmeal and bleach baths, wet pajama treatment, using steroid cream, and coating him with moisteriser two to three times a day. His head, body and legs are looking much better but his face is still all messed up. The good news is that he is not scratching as long as we keep slathering him with all this goo every few hours. Still using socks on his hands and trapping his arms down inside his sleep sack at night to keep him from rubbing his face and cleaning everything like a mad man. Things are looking up.

Thanks for the news. I feel relieved. 8) Good luck!



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30 Jan 2016, 10:45 am

I haven't read all of the responses, so this may have already been recommended:

My daughter has eczema and she scratches herself to the point of bleeding when it flares up. The thing that has helped her the most so far as skin "treatment" is concerned is borage seed oil. We use it TOPICALLY. She is 10 and verbal so she can tell me. This is what helps the itching the most. We have tried nearly every lotion known to man. Most of them do not really help. This seems to, and at 10 years old, I doubt she is reporting a placebo effect. She doesn't know what is in the lotion I am putting on her. She just knows that most of them don't help and this one does. She is actually adverse to the sensation of lotion on her skin, but she eagerly puts this on.

Here is webmd info about it so you do not need to search. We have never tried it orally.

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplemen ... ame=borage


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26 Feb 2016, 4:51 pm

Conclusion:

Well, the boy is doing fine. I did get my single, non-pharmacutical solution. The base of the problem was water loss. I soak him in an oatmeal bath every night and then seal him with "moisturizer" or vasiline.
No allergies and the cat was not the problem. If we keep him wet, everything is hunky-dory. I tell myself he is part dolphin.
Thank you everybody for all the suggestions.

Here is the cure:
1. Get him wet.
2. Seal in the water.
3. Running humidifiers 24 hours a day.