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Joshua Brown58 said:My little one had allergy testing done just two days ago—nothing showed up on the skin tests at all. The doctor mentioned that allergies can still be present even if they don't manifest physically during the test. Honestly, I’m losing my mind trying to manage both the creams and the potential allergens. We’ve been so careful—no Smucker's products, no cow's milk, nothing orange... I've tried everything myself, but nothing seems to work. We have cycled through almost every cream out there, from Mustela and Aderm to various homemade concoctions, and nothing. Then, while we were in Washington, D.C., I stumbled upon a pharmacy called Nature Cure. The woman there gave us this small, plant-based cream (it only cost $13) and we’ve been applying it for four days now—the results are actually visible.
Could you please provide the name and ingredients of that cream? I've experimented with several natural options that didn't work for my little one, and I'm running out of ideas. I really want to avoid using Hydrocortisone, even though it's the only thing that actually calms the redness. We are currently in the middle of an elimination diet to pinpoint any triggers; I suspect tomatoes or tomato products, but I haven't confirmed it yet. My son's dermatitis cleared up on its own when he was two, but my daughter is two and a half and is still struggling with it.😢
Morgan Ward6 said:Thanks for sharing that. I honestly find it hard to believe our doctors could be so uninformed or even just careless—claiming a cream is some kind of miracle cure when you can go online and find so many conflicting explanations about its supposed risks. To the lady I'm responding to: we’re doing our absolute best to avoid allergens, but you know how it goes—it feels like there's always something new popping up, yet the doctors insist everything has already been identified. I'm really at a loss as to whether I should stick with this cream or not, especially since everything else I've learned about seems even more harmful. Regardless, I truly appreciate the insight.
My apologies, I'm not in the US 🙂 and it isn't just local doctors who lack clarity; you see it in Canada too. 🙂 It's not necessarily that they're clueless, but rather that sales and new drug trials take priority. Big Pharma provides significant incentives to physicians to push new medications, even when they haven't been thoroughly vetted and side effects only surface much later. As parents, the responsibility falls on us to ensure our children don't become lab rats.🙂
I posted this a while back in the Atopic dermatitis thread.
Just a heads-up regarding Protopic ointment: here in the USA, it has received a black box warning. This means it should only be used in extreme cases, and you have to be incredibly careful with the concentration. Furthermore, studies have indicated potential links to certain types of cancer. As a rule, this cream isn't recommended for children under two years old.
My son developed eczema when he was less than two months old. We tried everything—various creams, baths, avoiding baths, Hydrocortisone, cutting out milk and all other potential dietary allergens—but nothing worked. Then his doctor prescribed Protopic (an adult 0.2% dose). A new cream had hit the market, so she figured we’d give it a shot. I was livid, of course, so I went straight to the internet to see what I could find. GRRR. Naturally, I didn't apply it to him, and I printed out everything I found and handed it to the doctor. She just looked at me and said, "Oh, I didn't know." We haven't been back to her since. Anyway, the eczema cleared up by the time he turned two and hasn't returned (I read that it often resolves by age two; if it doesn't, it tends to become chronic).
That was our experience with Protopic ointment about four years ago. I haven't done any recent research to see if anything has changed, but my daughter has eczema now, and while I'm not sure how we'll manage it, we certainly won't be using Protopic.
From what I can gather, your son has been diagnosed with an allergy. Why not simply avoid the allergens altogether instead of trying to suppress the symptoms?