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OP here.  Thanks for all your advice.   We have an appointment with a pediatric dermatologist but his first appointment availability is in September!  Our pediatrician is trying to see if he can squeeze us in early but I think all the ped practices are full right now since kids are not in school.   In the meantime, I thought I would post on here to see if anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought about.   A good friend of mine is a dermatologist and she suggested that we use a stronger steroid (Protopic) but it has a black box warning that it causes cancer if it is ingested.  How is a baby not going to ingest something that is on its hands (or feet)!?

Our pediatrician said that the ped derm will probably recommend bleach baths followed by vinegar baths, a stronger steroid and then restoraderm.  Has anyone tried this?  This is Dr. Silverman's regiment.  How does it work?

1)  Aquaphor-  Our DD reacted really badly to aquaphor and my derm friend said that a lot of babies have bad reaction to lanolin in aquaphor.  We switched to vaseline and that worked better but we didn't think it was very hydrating.  So now we're using an alba unpetroleum jelly and that seems to be working pretty well.  We use a lotion and then we trap the lotion with the alba jelly.  It doesn't get rid of the redness but it is relatively hydrating.

2) Calendula-  I wasn't so sure about the California Baby calendula cream because it had a lot of essential oils and I worried about the fragrance from the oils.  Instead, I bought a boiron calendula gel that is straight calendula.  It made our baby even redder so I stopped that.  (For those of you who haven't tried calendula, it looks pretty much like aloe vera so I don't think it was very moisturizing)

3) We were using a squirt bottle to spray her with water and then using vaseline.  That might work well.

4)  Gluten-  I'm a vegetarian so its super hard to cut things out of my diet for extended periods of time.   I thought about cutting gluten out, but I'm also trying to limit dairy and soy and eggs (just in case) so it would be super hard to cut all of that and gluten at the same time.  I'm also not convinced that its allergy related, though I would cut it out if I knew that was the cause.

5) Omega 3s and Probiotics-  I forgot to mention that I have been taking a daily omega 3 since I found out I was pregnancy (and pretty much everyday since then) and we were giving our DD an oral probiotic for months and it didn't have any effect.

I would love additional thoughts!  We're kinda desperate here! [/quote]

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