Cracked Ears?

[Miaow]

Hi all,

ELysha has a small crack above her ear where the ear joins the head - I went to the doc last week cause her ear was hurting and it was a little infected so her gave her some antibiotic cream (I'd been putting betadine on it before but it kept cracking open again) but he didnt really say what it was. Before it cracked it was sorta crusty. I noticed he checked her other ear in the same place while i was there.

Anyway her other ear was looking a little red a day or so later in the same place and again she had some crustiness though in a different place so Ive been putting the antibiotic on that one and the crustiness went but now this morning I found that its got little cracks in it also which are hurting her :( (the original ones healed up). She keeps sorta scratching at the ear also.

Ive done a few searches on the net sorta under crusty skin etc and cracks and come up with dermatitis or excema?

Im going to take her back to the doctor tomorrow about this but has anyone got any ideas on what this could be though or had a similar thing?

I did recently change the baby shampoo i was using to wash her hair - could this be the cause?

[Chickadee]

My DD gets dry skin behind her ears, in the fold between her ears and her head. It doesn't crack but gets scaly and dry. When I first noticed it was at the same time as a minor bout of cradle cap on her head, so I treated them both the same. Lots of moisturiser and then later use a face cloth to remove the dry skin. I now try to scrub behind each ear with the shampoo when I'm washing her hair and that seems to help, but I wouldn't advise that until the cracks are healing and no longer infected.

[misskittyfantastico]

When I was a bub I used to get cracked, dry skin in the top fold of my ear IYKWIM, it was diagnosed as excema and I had a topical ointment prescribed....it used to flare up on and off until my mid teens when it just disappeared....
Hope you can get some help for your bub at the drs tomorrow