Skin care: Does it help treat eczema?

Baths and moisturizers play an important role in treating eczema. By bathing and moisturizing your child’s skin as your dermatologist recommends, you can:

• Ease your child’s discomfort
• Decrease eczema flares
• Improve your child’s response to treatment
• Reduce the need for medicine

In this section, you'll find skin care advice that dermatologists give parents.

Baths and moisturizers

• Why are baths and moisturizer so important when treating eczema?
• How to bathe a child who has eczema
• Should I add anything to my child's bath to treat eczema or make baths more comfortable?
• How to use moisturizer to reduce eczema flares
• Eczema friendly moisturizer: How to select

Dermatologists' tips to relive dry skin, itch

• ​In winter, will my child need different eczema skin care?
• Home remedies: What can relieve itchy eczema?

Fast track it: Quiz and expert tips Do you know how to use skin care to help heal eczema?

Moisturizer is especially important. Using a cream or ointment will generally be more effective than lotions at relieving the dry skin.

Reference
Eichenfield, LF, Tom WL, et al. “Part 2: Guidelines of Care for the Management and Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis with Topical Therapies.” J Am Acad Dermatol. 2014 Jul;71(1):116-32.