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Ifyourlittleone’sskinlooksredandsore,eczema

couldbetheculprit–here’showtohandleit

our baby’s skin is like a the Greek word, ‘ekzein’, which means to
blanket so soft to touch, boil, and with symptoms including dry,
and there to cocoon Try this! scaly, red and itchy skin, it’s easy to
and protect him from Oilatum has long been the understand why this condition got
the outside elements. choice of bathtime oil for those its strange name. But don’t be
YAnd yet, of course, prone to eczema, and with good alarmed. ‘The good news
not all baby skin is so seemingly reason – it forms an emollient film is that roughly 60 per cent
perfect in the early months alone on the skin to reduce moisture of children will grow out
your little one could face the likes loss and to rehydrate. Oilatum of eczema by school age,
of baby acne, milk spots, cradle cap Junior Bath Additive (£8.99, 80 per cent by secondary
and nappy rash and that’s what’s boots.com) is suitable school age, and just 10 per
considered normal! for newborns and is cent will go on to have
Another common skin condition fragrance free. eczema into adulthood,’
is eczema, which affects a fifth of children says Dr Jess Felton, a
in the UK. The term eczema comes from paediatric dermatologist.

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