None of our products cause pain when applied, I try to follow the axiom that the treatment should not be worse than the disease. I would continue to use the Elocon under the Balm to avoid a flare-up occurring due to sudden cortisone withdrawal which occurs about 2-4 days after stopping a cortisone cream. Apply the Elocon as before and use our balm over the top about 3-4 times a day. When improvement occurs ,halve the elocon dose for the next week and continue with the balm as above. Then all being well, stop the elocon on the third week. This seems to work well for most people.
You may get flare-ups from time to time and need to add the elocon occasionally. This usually happens after a cold or something stimulating the immune system. If so just repeat the procedure as above to get the eczema under control again. Children do grow out of it so I suspect it is related to immune responses. Sometimes adding claratyne or zyrtec syrup may help but try one thing at a time so you can see what is working,
Kind Regards, David Hosking 7/01/08As I was more aware this time of what the problem was, I have had the advantage of knowing a little more about treatment from the start, although I thought she just had tinea for several weeks before I finally realised it had developed into eczema. My problem is that I seem to be able to keep the eczema under control to an extent, but it's still a bit of a mystery to me, and I really don't like using cortizone cream regularly which we presently doing. We're using Eulaphrat ? cortizone once a day, on top of 50% sorbolene, under a damp dressing for 20 minutes. I just keep putting sorbolene on as many times as I can during the day as well as an eczema cream - Medihoney. So far we've gone through 2 cycles of 7 days with cortizone, in between those 2 cycles, 4 days without cortizone for the first 'round' and 5 days off last week. Then after the 5th day off, there was inflammation again, and the next day blisters and today, large blisters. Today has been the 4th day of cortizone. Do you think that the product you are recommending would help?
I'm sorry that I don't know how to send an image, but I can describe it - it's only a relative small area on the tops of two toes (little toe and the next one to it) and a bit on the foot area just above where the toes join. There's another area underneath the third toe and tonight I noticed two large blisters, but they don't appear to be very painful. On the other foot, it's on nearly the same place - on the area just where the little toe joins the next toe but not on the toe itself.
Finally, I was given a tube of antibiotic ointment to put on the area three times a day, but it didn't really seem to do anything to help, especially when there isn't a flare up. Any ideas, and as I asked above, do you think your product could be incorporated so as to stop using the cortizone - and yet keeping the flare ups under control?
If you are able to email me an image of the affected area I may be able to help. Our Psorexederm cream is anti-inflammatory with antibacterial properties and is also excellent at reducing itch.
As the Hypoallergenic face and body balm is more protective than sorbolene, I would replace the sorbolene with the balm. That should immediately stop the blistering which I imagine must be painful. Avoid the medihoney as it can dry out the skin and do the cycles again with the eleuphrat and Hypoallergenic balm only with a damp dressing on top. I think you will be very surprised at the improvement as we have had experience with this before and the last child was eventually completely recovered. I don't promise that, but an improvement well worth the effort should result. Kind Regards, David Hosking 8/8/08We formulated the lavender -free balm (removed the lavender oil) for infants, babys and children with hypersensitivities. The hypoallergenic balm should work precisely the same as our Lavender Balm product, although, of course, it does not come with the lovely smell and color of the Lavender oil.
The hypo allergenic product without lavender oil conforms to the guidelines of Sue Dengate ( see; http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/) who is prominent in helping children with food additive sensitivities. These children also tend to have eczema and so the Hypoallergenic product without lavender was born after requests from a number of customers. Directions for use are exactly the same as for David's Soothing Lavender Face & Body Balm.
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