IS WHERE YOU LIVE GETTING UNDER YOUR SKIN?

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  IS WHERE YOU LIVE GETTING UNDER YOUR SKIN?    Could where you live affect your skin’s health and even be a trigger for eczema?  The answer could be yes, and it is all down to your tap water, especially if you live in a hard water area. According to mapping studies, in the UK [...]

How Can I Get Rid of Eczema?

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How Can I Get Rid of Eczema? Eczema is an inflammation of the epidermal or outer layer of the skin. It occurs in all races and is characterized as a recurring rash on the skin. Some signs and symptoms include; inflammation, redness, itching, swelling and in some people lesions can occur. In dark skinned people it manifests [...]

PurFlo Matress & Shleepy Product Review

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The PurFlo Mattress   I was sent a Purflo cot bed mattress and a Purflo Shleepy to test and review. I was very keen to take up this offer as I was very impressed with the products description. This mattress is designed to provide your baby with the cleanest, safest and healthiest sleeping environment. I love that you can also regularly wash [...]

Eczema:How do you Distract your Child from Scratching?

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  This, I have lots of experience with; After all, my baby girl Marcie, has eczema from two weeks old. Eczema, put simply, is the itch that rashes. It is chronic, meaning it must be managed overtime with no simple cure. Though it is not life threatening, the amount of stress it creates for a [...]

Eczema help & advice for young children

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This post is an anonymous guest post*   We first discovered that my son had eczema at the tiny age of just 8 weeks old. With eczema being in both mine and my other halfs side of the family we was aware that our baby could possibly get the awful skin condition but we didnt [...]

Cradle Cap: solving the problem

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My daughter is one of many babies to suffer with cradle cap. Most babies will get it most commonly between 0-8 months but older children can get it too. Cradle cap can cover a baby’s scalp and look yellow, greasy and scaly and isn’t particularly nice to look at but won’t hurt them and is [...]

Urine Treats Eczema

I was rather amazed when a mother told me that urine treats eczema and suggested she shares her own experience on the blog in the hope of helping other desperate mums out there. Urine consists mostly of watern with small amount of urea (a substance that can be harmful if it enters the blood stream) [...]