Everything changed when I started treating it as staph and encouraging good bacteria.

Very tired parents here. We were at our wits ends with our 9 month old. Doctors were useless “lol he’ll grow out of it, moisturize and use these steroids for now.” Rebounds after steroids made it worse than before. We were lucky to sleep for 2 hrs each for almost a month straight.

I spent a whole weekend on PubMed doing research. Turns out people with eczema are colonized by staph instead of good bacteria. We started treating the baby for staph and taking steps to encourage other bacterias to take hold, including applying topical probiotics. There’s been a few successful trials using strains of bacteria to treat AD, and we had nothing to lose.

We got a 98% reduction in symptoms within a week.

I’ll make a detailed post sooner or later, but a shift in treatment philosophy might be useful for some of you guys.