Why did my child get eczema?

Why did my child get eczema?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How do I keep my child from scratching from allergies? and more...

Somebody in the family probably had eczema before your child had eczema. A common cause of eczema in early childhood is food allergy, and one of the things that people would work out is, "Is this a milk allergy? Are there certain foods that should be avoided? Is this a manifestation of some other immunologic disease?" For this sort of a thing, a paediatrician or a paediatric allergist might be helpful in sorting it out. Children are not just little adults; they are different and they have different diseases and this is true in their allergic development also. They haven't been exposed to things. A three-month-old who's never seen a cat probably isn't allergic to cats, but they still have the same sort of symptoms that someone who has cat allergy has. Children are different than adults and should be treated differently.