Is it safe to use steroid cream for 3 months old baby

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It is always good to resort to natural based ingredients first. Steroids has side effects if in use for long term i.e. steroids addiction, you need a stronger steroids each time if the previous one doesn't work anymore. There is a term called TSW (Topical Steroid Withdrawal). http://etsin.org/understanding-topical-steroid-withdrawal/ Let me share my own baby's experience. My no.1 has rashes on her neck and face. I brought her to PD and PD prescribed a fungal cream which contains steroid. After I applied the cream, the rashes stopped but reappear when I stopped. The cycle repeated until the cream doesn't work anymore. Thus, I read up on a forum where the TSW term came into my picture. Thus, I have decided to stop apply all steroids cream and resort to natural based solution. I am lucky that I found Four Cow Farm's Tea Tree Remedy (for fungal infection) worked for my daugther. The rashes turned very bad when I stopped the cream, however I persisted to use the natural cream and in the end the skin became smooth again. For my baby no.2, his butt was quite sensitive to diaper and infected, with the pus. I used natural based cream too and finally heal. During the healing period, I faced a lot of criticism and pressure from family member for avoid steroid, but I know what is the best for my child. Not every kid is suitable to certain natural based cream, you need to do trial and error. If you are breastfeeding, you can try to do food elimination to see if your kid's skin condition turns better.

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