Any mom-to-be, especially those with a history of eczema in the family, should proactively do as much as she can to prevent her unborn baby from inheriting this disease. Now it is possible to do everything right, and your baby may still get eczema, but there are specific things you can do to reduce the risk. I found the below article on EzineArticles.com discussing just that.
Baby Eczema Treatment – If You Are Pregnant Read This
By Broyde McDonald *
If you are pregnant atopic eczema should be one of your concerns. The disease has been increasing among babies for some decades now. The rate of eczema in babies is as high as 20%.
Not only so, but if you or your child’s other parent has, or has had, eczema, asthma or hay fever, then the chances of your baby getting atopic eczema is above 50% in favor of the illness.
Atopic eczema is a very difficult illness to bear. It causes your babies and children to scratch themselves sometimes until they are bleeding. It causes them to have problems sleeping at night. And it causes them to be sometimes outcast at social events and tasks that require cooperation. If you are pregnant with a child, or knows someone who is, there are things that you can do right now, and early in your new child’s life that may be able to get rid of the threat that this terrible disease can pose to your child.
Your Diet
When you get into the latter stages of your pregnancy (the last 3 months,) look to keep the level of anti-inflammatory foods you eat as high as you can get it.
One of the foods that you will want to make sure that you include in your diet are a lot of foods that have active cultures in them. Foods like yogurts with active cultures. You can also look to get probiotic supplements.
What these foods will do is make sure that you have a good ratio of good to bad bacteria in your intestines. When the quantities are sufficient that the bad bacteria are unable to overpower the good, then you have a good environment for the prevention of inflammation.
You may also want to make sure that you avoid much of the simple carbohydrates which cause spikes in your blood sugar levels. The reason why you want to do this is because sugar rich blood damages any cells that it gets into.
When he is born
After his birth, you will want to continue the diet and breastfeed your infant. For at least the first 4 months of his life. If you do this right, you should expect that your baby will have results similar to those who followed this procedure in an experiment that was conducted not very long ago.
A group of babies who for genetic reasons were predisposed toward getting eczema, had parents who parents followed this treatment. There was also another group whose parents were given placebo drugs that were supposed to contain this treatment. The results were that from birth past the age of 4 years old, the treated children experienced only about two eczema flare ups per year, while the untreated children had flare ups roughly one every other month.
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Broyde McDonald is an experienced writer on the subject of Baby Eczema Treatments.
Eczema Remedy Blog Says:
As the author mentioned, your diet is essential to prevent baby eczema. If you are able to breastfeed your baby, do so. Breastfeeding is so important since many cases of infant eczema are triggered by milk and/or soy found in baby formulas.
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