Cradle cap

[Kalamiphile]

Any ideas please. My 10 week old grandaughter developed cradle cap which spread all over body. Olive oil and aqeous cream has helped on trunk. Doc has given oilatum for bath and shampoo but skin on arms and legs scaly and dry, but bearable. There is a patch on head very sore and itchy, which doc has given steroid cream for, but not clearing up, what else can she use to a) help clear the cradlecap and b) stop the itching whaich causes her to attempt to furiously scratch head :(

Many thanks x

[Link]

Dentinox treatment shampoo worked for my daughter. She also had a very bad cradle cap that kept her head sore from itching, after a week of using dentinox, the difference is clear and now that she is 2, you can not tell she once had patches all over her head!

Hope this helps.

[Ko]

my gp told me that you need to remove the dry skin, otherwise it gets itchy. re head - apply olive oil the night before or about 3 hours before, then use a baby COMB (not brush) and comb thru hair which will lift the scales off. the gp advised to then wash the hair and apply aqueous cream afterwards. you should do this daily.

doublebase cream (on prescription) is actually much better than aqueous cream, but doublebase is much more greasy (hence why it is better!), so often parents don't want to use doublebase. i basically just put up with baby's hair looking greasy as it was more important to deal with the cradle cap.

aqueous cream is water based which is why it is less greasy (that's what gp told me). my little one was much better with this advice. hope your grandchild gets better soon xxx

[Kalamiphile]

will tell her about the doublebase cream, she is already using dentinox and it hasn't helped unfortunately

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Nothing works for my son, and though I had used olive oil before and it did nothing, I thought I would try olive oil again which I left to soak , and then I gently massage all the dead skin off, I did circular motions with my fingertips, and it all came off and never came back!

[canadianlisa]

Bit off topic but- when does cradle cap go? My girl who is almost one still has very dry, flaky skin on her head. You can't see it due to her hair and it doesn't seem to bother her but just wondering when it goes away. It is very small flakes so I am not even sure if it counts as cradle cap or is more like dandruff. Thanks

[HLB]

My son has eczema rather than cradle cap, but we use Aveeno cream for his general dry and itchy skin and found it a million times better than any of the aqueous/emollient creams prescribed.

[FatherJack]

You could try coconut oil on scalp, available in small tubs from chemist. It lifts off the dry scaly skin/scalp.

[kateland]

Was just about to suggest coconut oil as fatherjack has. I use it as I get really flaky scalp and have supplied it to mums for their babies with cradle cap. :)

[FatherJack]

And it's cheap!! If you compare the "ingredients" of specific baby cradle cap products, I'm sure they contain coconut oil??

The last tub I bought cost less than ?1, you can warm it and it becomes a liquid or put it in the fridge and it solidifies.

[nylonmeals]

We found a brilliant anti cradle cap product while we were in the states on holiday - made by a firm called MD Moms

http://www.bigelowchemists.com/product_info.php/cPath/314_476/products_id/4094?osCsid=268b321c092a1f3b0fbdd0a068ac58f2

They ship to the UK.

More expensive than the coconut oil option but we did find it to be really good

[Helen GV]

My little boy never had it as a small baby then around 1 he got it. never bothered him though and as you say, the hair covers it. I used to put olive oil then comb his hair in the bath and get what i could before he noticed!

canadianlisa Wrote:

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> Bit off topic but- when does cradle cap go? My

> girl who is almost one still has very dry, flaky

> skin on her head. You can't see it due to her hair

> and it doesn't seem to bother her but just

> wondering when it goes away. It is very small

> flakes so I am not even sure if it counts as

> cradle cap or is more like dandruff. Thanks

[alicinha]

Mustela cream helped a lot but you can't find it in the UK. Actually, I love Mustela, they have great products for babies with Eczema too. You can get Mustela all over Europe and in the US, maybe you can get it from the net to deliver in the UK.

http://www.mustelausa.com/stelaker.html