A number of infants aged one month to a year has suffered an eczema milk. Many women are mistaken about this. Eczema usually appears in the milk which the baby’s cheeks are often misdiagnosed as breast milk ‘hard’ thus causing the appearance of spots on the baby’s cheek. While eczema is not milk at all because of mother’s milk.
According to skin specialists and gender of the RSCM, dr. Tina Ward Wisesa SpKK, eczema typically occurs on the cheeks baby because she has a talent allergies.
Milk eczema or atopic dermatitis, characterized by the appearance of patches of white dots with red speckled edges, usually on the cheeks. There was also what looked like crusty spots, or wet look like blisters / scab.
In the medical literature, never explicitly referred to the term eczema or eczema dairy milk. What is infantile eczema or eczema in infants. This type of eczema is indeed generally occurred beginning in cheek, but if it could have been worse on other body parts, especially in the folds such as behind the ears, neck, thighs and so on.
Once again, eczema is not caused by breast milk. Because many misconceptions, so that the mother actually reduce or stop breastfeeding for her baby. In fact, breast milk is best food for babies.
According to Tina, atopic dermatitis usually appear in babies whose parents also have a history of allergy. This disorder usually occurs on the new baby. The itching is felt the baby from the disease would certainly make the baby fussy.
A number of factors that trigger emergence atpi dermatitis, partly because of heredity, in which parents have a history of allergic infants: a dry baby’s skin as well as environmental factors, such as hot air, dirty and dusty.
The symptoms of eczema milk that is easily recognizable among other baby’s skin in the facial area especially cheeks appear dry, scaly, and reddish; baby restless because of itching; apart in the face, these symptoms can spread to the neck, arms and legs.
When your baby has eczema milk, things you should do mothers are:
- Keep your skin clean baby’s face. When exposed to drops of milk, immediately wipe with a damp cloth and dry.
- Select a special soap for babies that contain moisturizers, but does not contain perfume.
- Try the baby stays in a cool room. When the air is too hot until he sweat, keeping skin rash that had remained dry.
- Avoid parts that have eczema milk exposed to direct sun exposure.
- Put the baby gloves, or routinely cut her fingernails to prevent abrasions when he was scratching his face.
If the above steps do not work as well, immediately contact your doctor for appropriate solutions