Eczema

[Mana22009]

Hiya,

My 18 month old daughter has eczema and was recently hospitalised with eczema herpeticum.
Now what I am curious about is that when she had eczema herpeticum, it was quite bad on her right arm, few spots on her face.  The rest of her skin totally cleared up from eczema.  It actually went quite soft to touch which is not normal for her skin at all.  She is very sore normally.  Now that the viral infection has clearde up my daughter's eczema has returned as well.  What could be the reason for that?

I would be very grateful if somebody could point me in the right direction.  

Thanks

Mana

[Thanh78]

Doctors would not tell when a person stop getting ezcema. Ezcema is a part of allergy so it depends on a person immune system when to stop this skin dsease. Since your daughter was hospitalized with eczema herpeticum and she is 18 months olds her immune system is not fully develope to fight back this virus. Once the virus was in her body, it stays in her body for life. I recommend you don't let her contact with any one who is having a cold sore other than she will get this disease again and stay away from the sun also.  If it reoccur, the only acyclovir medicine would be the treatment to stop the virus spreading.

[gracefromHHP]

so sorry to hear your child has to deal with this :(  It's quite painful for the children and they are too young to understand what is going on as well as too young to know to keep their hands off the rashes :(

Your daughter's body has been under a lot of stress from the herpes infection on her skin. It's not unusual at all for the eczema to return and be a little more out of control than usual for her.   If her regular skin care plan isn't working, contact her pediatrician or a pediatric dermatologist for further ideas.  

grace

[Mistakeguy789]

No need for an ID doc at this point.  I would say more of a dermatologist though.  Working with your childs peditrician is the best bet to find someone they can recommend.  Hopsitials are good for emergency purposes but outside of that its on your primary care doc.  

[sk86]

very true. the best thing to do in this case is get your child looked at by doctors. the doctors at the hospital would probably be able to recommend someone who can give you accurate information..not sure that your 18 month child needs to see an sti specialist, but they can tell you best. i only say the things i say about eczema because I've had it for 23 years. however, your childs condition IS quite rare and needs to be examined by a dermatologist or specialist.. good luck.. let us know how it goes!

[Mistakeguy789]

Not that I am trying to say anything negative.  I think grace will have the best information.  If not I would maybe recommend talking to our STD Experts or the Dermatolgoy Expert.  

However, it maybe best to find and work with your peditrician to get with a Dermatolgoy expert that has experince with kids to help as well.  Due to this being from what I can find here on MH it being a rare condition.  

[sk86]

Well if she has eczema.. she has eczema. She might have recurrences of it her entire life.

If the herpetic episode of eczema cleared up this OB could just be plain eczema. Did the hospital recommend anything for her? Have you asked these questions to those doctors? Have they looked at this recent OB?