My son (aged four) suffers from eczema. We use Diprobath and Diprobase cream. My son also suffers from various allergies and has mild asthma. I recently read that people with eczema should avoid dairy products - is this true? :confused: It has taken until now for the doctors to say that they think it is because my son drinks a lot of milk his skin flares up ! But he is used now to eating things like pizza and drinking milkshakes, because we didn't know these may help cause it. The goats milk that we have been trying the last few weeks seems to have helped a little, but its hard to get him to drink it and have it on his breakfast.

The problem we face now is finding other things he can have with no dairy products in them :confused: and weening him off them as he has been eating them for years, has anybody else had this happen to them or suffer from the same kind of thing. Any help or idears would be a great help.

Thanks--->> NwsFlasH <<---;)

Hi,
I personally have no experience with this, and cannot offer any suggestions as to how to handle it.
I do apologize if you have visited this site below. It does have some very good categories and links:

http://www.eczema.org/

I do wish you the best of luck. I do know that it's very hard to change routines and food/drink with a child. I had to many years ago, with one of my children, and the only suggestion I have about change, is to just hang in there. It's something they will eventually get used to, and hopefully, others have some ideas on non-dairy products.

The issue of the relationship between dairy products and eczema is debated. I read that the current "tide of professional opinion is that sensitivity or intolerance to particular foods, including cow's milk, plays little role in most children's eczema." <source>
It's a good read.

It sure can't hurt to remove - or significantly reduce - dairy products from your son's diet to see if he may be one of the few for whom it will help.

If no improvement in the eczema in 2-3 weeks then you'll know that he's like most; not affected by dairy products.

My daughter is 12 now. She suffered from this skin condition for the first 7 to 8 years of her life. She did however eventually grew out of it. Depending how severe it is, they sometimes do. She has an occasional outbreak of it like after a illness accompanied with a fever. As a infant, we had to avoid all dairy product. Not only did they make her ill @ the stomach, it flared up her eczema as well. Until the age of 10, she was on SOY products. No juices with any type of acid in them were allowed. Orange juice, apple juice, tomato juice. They all made the condition worse. EUCERIN cream worked wonders for us by keeping the skin moisturized but the miracle ointment that I swore by was ELACON. It's a mild steroid cream or ointment that took the rash away in a day or less. I didn't mean to go all into this but this is what helped us. As far as the dairy product goes. The only thing that I can suggest is SOY products. Yes, they are a lot more expensive but that is what helped us.
Hope this helps

ELACON was given by our doctor a few time's but he says that we can't have this all the time because the steroid burns the skin away and should only be used once in a blue moon:confused: but hell it does clear up over night! It was like magic:rolleyes:

Thanks too all of you that have posted;) , its given me some good idear's and ways too look at the matter. Im going to try the SOY and Goats milk and try and take 99% dairy products out of his diet for the next few weeks.

Well it's the first day and diary free diet seems to be going well so far... Thanks to you all for your kind views.

Try breastfeeding. Allergies are less common in exclusively breastfed babies. As much as possible since dairy products can trigger eczema, focus on other foods that you enjoy eating. Make a list of dairy-free foods that you can enjoy.
http://www.curechildeczema.com