Red Cheeks in 10 Month Old

My daughter had really red cheeks for YEARS. She is 4 now, and has outgrown it. I used Aquaphor at night, seemed to help some. But they were pretty much constantly big/red/rosy cheeks for about 3 years.

Could also be teething. I know that with my son, the drool from teething often left his cheeks/chin red and chapped. Vaseline works well and so does the really thick Aquafor.

As for the food allergies, bring it up at the next appointment, along with all of your observations regarding her change in sleep pattern.

Best way to find out is to do an elimination diet for her. Take the dairy, wheat, soy, eggs and corn out of the diet for a period of time and see if it clears up. These are the most allergenic foods (of course there are others). Then add back in only one of these at a time. Avoid GMO grains while you add back in so buy ogrganic. Then you just have to be patient and methodical to figure out if there is an allergy problem. If nothing changes after a few weeks then its probably not the diet.

my now 2.5 year old would get something similar off-and-on, usually with the cold weather. aquafor really helped. i also used lanisoh (yes, the stuff for your sore nipples) with success. in our case it was not food/allergy related, but that sounds like something you should explore just to be thorough.
as for the sleep stuff... yes, we had that too. we muscled through it and went through many phases of good and bad nights. for the past year or so, she has been a pretty decent sleeper.

Have you been back to the doctor since trying the Vaseline? If not, at least call. The process of diagnosing such issues is a matter of eliminating obvious causes. I suggest that the next step might be to test for allergies.

I suggest that the poor sleeping combined with sitting up, needing to be burped, etc. does point to food allergies. I'd explore that possibility. Allergy testing isn't always accurate. The most accurate way to determine allergies is to eliminate all the suspect foods and put them back into the diet one at a time at least a week apart.

Or to feed 2 basic foods that people are usually not sensitive to and then add in foods one at a time with at least a week in between.

Testing would help narrow down possibilities. Talk with your doctor about doing that.

Take her back to the ped. dont ask, tell them you want to have her blood tested for food allergies. This can take a minute to get the results back, i would try to cut out whole milk and soy from your diet, and raw eggs till the results are back. eat more fresh fruits and veggies for the time. my daughter had and still has problems with her skin but it is under control now. After talking to a friend whos son is only a month older than my daughter, he had the same ailements as my daughter but more severe and she told me it was food allergies his was gluten and a lot of other things, she was breastfeeding and had to cut a lot from her diet. anywho i switched ped. then went in guns blazing to the new ped who turned out to be great insisting for an allergy test and she was like OK! then I calmed down, lol. It came back she has an allergy to soy, whole milk, egg whites, and peanuts. the peanut allergy is the worst she actually broke out in hives and got really sick from eating it, diarrea everything but no breathing problems just intestinal discomfort and the diarrea mostly from all of them. If it is food allergies her skin will get better once you know what to avoid.
Eczema comes with the territory of food allergies, i find when i cannot get certain areas under control with triple cream, eucerin, I use crisco (i was very appprehensive at first but it works!) at night only, i would for your baby use it on her after she falls asleep (lather it on generously and lay her head on a old receiving blanket), at naptime and at bedtime you will see an instant difference when she wakes up, continue to use the others though eucerin and triple cream with each diaper change just make it a ritual to lather her, it will get better.
For the sleep I took her to the chiropractor he adjusted her a few times and I have not had any problems from her sleeping anymore. This was in Tx. and i did have to pay for it because our insurance does not cover it, i paid $40 a visit she went once a week for 3 weeks then about 2X every other week then was seen back at one month then we moved here and i have not taken her back. It was well worth the money since after the first adjustment she went home and slept for two hours straight and she never had napped that long before. That night she slept through the night and has pretty much ever since...
i wish you the best of luck! Do your research, and ALWAYS trust your mommy gut it is the best measurement tool we have!

six months old is too young to start a child on solids.. no matter how much money your ped is getting from the baby food people ! your doctor isnt much help because he is too busy depositing his bonus checks, cut back on the solids, in fact, cut them out of the childs diet completely, then slowly re introduce them to the child at nine months, doctors theses days are way too eager to blame a supposed milk allergy when the child has an upset tummy, rather then saying, "gee, maybe you should wait a little while longer before you introduce the child to solid foods" as an added bonus, if you re introduce a child to foods one at a time, then if and when they have an allergic reaction, it will be much easier to figure out what the potential allergen is.
K. h.

My pediatrician recommended Eucerin cream...(not lotion). I always have it on had and use it on all dry spots. You have to be careful with hydrocortizone creams....face is a little delicate. Vaseline protects it, but does not mosturize it.

I would try using a little of your facial moisterizer. The vasaline just seems to come off on everything.

M

When my son was around that age, he had the same thing... red (almost rash-like) circles on his cheek and redness on his chin. He has eczema, so part of it was that, but the whole time he was teething, he drooled like a faucet! I was told by the dr. that the saliva can be irritating it. I used (as per doctors directions) the over-the-counter 1% hydrocortisone cream followed by Aquaphor (which is more healing than plain Vasoline)... I think it has lanolin (or something along those lines) in it as well as petroleum jelly. He was like this from 8 1/2 months up to 12 months.

My daughter had red, raw cheeks as a baby and sometimes flaky with bumps as you described. As she got older the dry spots moved to her arms and legs. She was diagnosed with eczema. I tried multiple creams and doctor recommended hydrocortisone and nothing worked. Some things even seemed to make it worse and burn the irritated area.

Finally I took her to a pediatric dermatologist when her "itches" seemed unbearable. He prescribed Triamcinolone Acetonide Ointment - saying that lotions and creams would only irritate the eczema. It helped tremendously!! After bath I would put this ointment on and then cover in Vaseline before putting on her pjs. She finally grew out of the ecezema, but this treatment seemed to calm her skin down at the time and provided a great deal of relief.

We now know after allergy testing that she has allergies to grass, oak and cats.

Your baby could be having a food allergy but it could also be an environmental allergy. Has she had a lot of ear infections? My daughter was a terrible sleeper as well and she had fluid in her ears constantly until she got tubes at 15 months. I believe the fluid was also caused by the allergies.

I hope your little one's skin calms down! Good luck.

Perhaps she is sensitive to bath or laundry products. Renew lotion works wonders for all types of skin issues.

I just dabbed a little Vaseline on my winter red cheeked babies.

:)