Awhile ago I wrote a post on Koreans and dry skin. I have it and I hate it, but I hate eczema more. It is so hard to explain to my two year old son why he itches so much.

I noticed the other day that he had a bad rash, but that it was underneath his hair, behind his ears and around his neck. With all of the 90 degree weather we’ve been having, I thought it was a heat rash. I used to get those when I was little and, with his predilection for rashes, it made sense that he might have it too.

Well, I’m pretty sure that it’s eczema now. When he first was diagnosed, I read a lot, but some of that (over the past two years) has been lost or shuffled behind the myriad of other parenting tidbits I’ve had to read and store. However, I did remember reading that sometimes sweat can be a trigger. The bells and whistles went off and that’s what we think is happening. When he gets hot, he sweats…when he sweats, his eczema breaks out. Looking back, I wonder if I didn’t have a minor form of eczema when I was little.

We have the prescription lotion, but I hate using it if I don’t have to. We’ve been using it lately to see if we can get rid of the majority of the rash and then we’ll go back to his regular lotion. Unfortunately, there’s not much I can do to prevent it. I can’t keep him inside in the air conditioning all the time. He loves being outside and he needs to be outside to get fresh air.

I hate to see my son suffer, but I think that I suffer more than he does. If anyone has any ideas, I am open to suggestions. (Hats don’t work either. That hasn’t worked since he figured out how to take them off.)

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