Tea Tree Oil

[f_sat]

Hi Priscilla,

Thank you for replying!

I took my daughter to Royal Children because the eczema spread to her right eyelid. The poor girl's eyes was swollen!

As the eczema is wet and weeps (it's already infected with bacteria), the doctor prescribed antibiotics. He advised us to use Sigmacort to control the flare-ups and Dermeze for mosturizer. We supposed to use the antibiotics and Sigmacort for 5 days, then we have to stop.

My wife and myself decided to follow the doctor's direction for 5 days. If this fails, I think I am going to try using wet compress.

I had eczema on my forearm once around 8-9 years ago, and I managed to cure myself using the wet compress method. Basically I prepared a bucketful of lukewarm water with 2-3 drops of tea tree oil. Then I wrapped a towel which had been dipped into the water around my limbs and have it compressed for 10-15 minutes. I did this for 2-3 times a day, and saw result within 2 weeks. Within a month my eczema was gone.

Thing is, I haven't tried this on my daughter. I just remembered how I did cure myself by chance, and I am sort of beating myself for not remembering sooner!

I'll keep you posted, and thanks for making time!

Felix

Hi f_sat,

Of course you can ask! I also used the Thursday Plantation brand of tea tree oil. For Cameron, it did take about a week (from memory) and yes, his skin started to get really dry and flaky. If this is happening to you daughter than I think this is supposed to happen? When Cameron's skin started to get flaky, I put some dermeze on it. AFter a couple of day, the flaking stopped and the skin started to become smooth and eczema free.

100% tea tree oil is very strong (as you can see from the previous posts), and since then, a few people (child health nurses, pharmacists etc) have also told me that it's too strong to be using it on a baby. It does sting a little (as I tried it on my face out of curiosity) and that's why I didn't use it on Cameron's neck/face area, and only used it on his feet. In saying that though, the strength of it was reason his ezcema cleared up as I've bought a bottle of Tea Tree Oil Cream (also Thursday Plantation) and it didn't do anything. Maybe as one of the other mum's have suggested on this thread, try mixing it with a carrier oil so it's not as strong.

For Cameron's neck and face, I only use dermeze which is 100% paraffin and works within a few days of using it. You can also try it but its VERY greasy and you can use it as much as you like. I would smear it on C at every nappy change and if the ezcema's looking quite raw, I use alot - C just about looks like he's been dipped into oil by the end of it! You can get it from the pharmacy and comes in a huge tub.

Let me know how you go and feel free to pm me! It's very heartbreaking to see your child get so bothered by eczema, isn't it?!

[excitedmum]

My little boy recently had signs of eczema. I treated it straight away with the tea tree oil cream and it has cleared up. I had eczema over about 80% of my body until I was about 5 and nothing would clear it up, I eventually just grew out of it.

So thanks for the tip. I am also using when bub starts to get a little redness from nappy rash and it seems to clear that up too.

[satsmum]

I have 5 month old son who has ezcema on his face, folds of the legs and arms, neck and back. unfortunately he has ezcema on his scalp as well. I have tried so many creams on his body but the ezcema seems to reappear. i was told by the doctor to use olive oil on his scalp to moisturise it, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work.

i am going to try tea tree oil on him and would like to know whether it is okay to use it on the scalp.

very confussed first timer