Kuldeep pls help - Eczema - 17 month old baby boy

Hello Kuldeep

My son has had severe eczema from his second month. I read through many of your posts and followed one recommendation to give Belladonna 6x followed by Graphites 30C. I could not find Belladonna 6x at my local store, got Belladonna 30C instead. We gave 3 pellets twice a day, in the morning and evening. Its been 3 days now. He started showing improvement from the second day. At this point his condition appears to have improved around 75%. Not sure if this is long lived. His skin became soft and smooth. His itching has reduced a lot. He sleeps better and does not itch all the time. We haven't given anything else.

What should we do next?

His full case history is below
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We live in Chicago.

Itching started when he was two months old with red round rashes/patches predominantly on his chest and stomach. Then it completely disappeared by 4 months and he did not have any problem till 7 months. In his 8th month, he again started itching his body and since then has not stopped. But no red rashes.

Severe itching. If he starts itching its very difficult to stop him.

Other than the Belladonna we started giving recently, we have not given him any medicines for eczema. Only vaseline, eucerin cream.

Areas he has been itching continously are slightly darker than the other areas (not the platelets, but healed skin itself is darker). He has under eye dark circles too.

Itching is worser in the night, before going to sleep and whenever he wakes up in the night. Usually he spends atleast 1 hr(almost daily)-2hrs(sometimes)-3hrs(rarely) in the night scratching all over his body. He keeps on crying when itching. Itching is also more noticeable immediately after bath, at the time of bath. He also itches whenever he is displeased or irritated. He also itches badly after his afternoon siesta, usually accompanied with crying.

He itches all over his body. Special areas are behind the ears, eye lids, cheeks (closer to the ears), behind his neck, the exact middle of his back, his tummy, tummy and pelvis joint, elbow joint, back of his shoulder joint, wrist, thighs, behind his knees, ankles, back of his palms. These days he has started scratching his scalp as well, especially the back of his head closer to the neck and the part of the head closer to the forehead.

He itches till he bleeds. There have been no eruptions or oozing so far.

Earlier, when he was itching his ears, slightly pressing it on and off continously seemed to give him some pleasure (not anymore). Till 2-3 weeks back, whenever we rubbed itching areas for him his eyes used to half close with pleasure. But these days, he prefers to scratch on his own. If we scratch the areas he is scratching, he would move onto scratching a different area.

From our observations, he did not have skin problem when my wife was exclusively breast feeding him from 4th to the 7th month.

When we discount night time, he is happy 50-75% of the time if we are around.

He is very particular about being with his mom all the time. Most of the time he starts crying even when she goes to the bath room for sometime. Is it fear? We don’t know.

He expresses his displeasure very strongly, he used to hit his head on the wall or some hard object before, but has stopped doing that in the past 2 weeks. He just cries these days, going flat on the floor.

For 2 weeks (close to 5 months back) he was with a 'bad' baby sitter who used to scold him (very loudly) all the time and make him sleep all the time. She also used to have him buckled on his high chair for long hours, when she used to wash dishes and utensils, at which time he would be crying. We guess he started becoming a loud crier at that time. We also guess he became a sadder person at that time. For example, it would take an hour every evening before he came back to normal, for that one hour he would be very silent, as if he is not enjoying anything. He also became slightly reserved at that time, ie he would not smile at everyone the way he used to before. We caught her on web cam and stopped her service as soon as we knew about her.

My father and my sisters daughters( 8 years and 19 months old ) have eczema. My father is allergic to egg and fish. I am allergic to egg. My wife has dry skin.

He is having cold since Jan 11th. It started with running nose and now he has congestion in his throat and chest. The doctor also confirmed that he has some wheezing. The doctor said that she had been noticing some viral infection cases that were causing wheezing. When asked if this is anyhow related to asthma, she said we would have to wait and see.

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Pls help us out. Looking forward to your guidance. Thanks.