If You Want To Stop Your Child’s Eczema, Stop Smoking

There are many reasons to stop smoking. Cancer, obesity, and dental problems are just a few of the many health concerns associated, with more being discovered all the time. However, one of the most important reasons to stop smoking is to prevent your child’s eczema.

No parent wants to see their child suffer. The pain, itching, and overall discomfort are not the worst parts of eczema in children. Children are very sensitive emotionally. The way that eczema afflicted skin is perceived, and the way others treat them because of their eczema, can have a traumatic affect on your child that will have lingering ramifications.

Cigarette and cigar smoke is one of the leading causes for eczema. While eyelid eczema is the most common form in adults, children are more likely to have smoke induced eczema all over their bodies. This is because their skin is new and so much more sensitive than adult skin. Impurities in the air, like smoke, attack their skin and can quickly cause a severe eczema reaction.

Smoking will also counteract most of the best eczema remedies. Moisturizers, oatmeal baths, emollient oils, and natural extracts all provide eczema relief. However, the effectiveness of these remedies is thwarted when smoke in the atmosphere combines with them. In fact, the smoke can mix with topical remedies and actually get trapped on the skin, where it can cause the most damage.

If you want to help your child’s skin heal and stay eczema fee, you need to stop smoking. Talk to a doctor to get all of the help and support you need. While you are stopping, make sure any cigarettes you do eat are outside in well ventilated areas far away from your child. This does not mean rolling down the window while you smoke in the car, you have to remove the smoke from your child’s environment.