Baby Acne and Matted Eyes

Hi L.,

My baby had a very bad baby acne when she was born. Her Pediatrician prescribed a lotion called Desonide. It worked great. My baby was so bad that she even had it in her scalp. I had to use a different shampoo on her and the Desonide lotion. Within 3 days her skin looked MUCH better. Try asking your Pediatrician for a prescription for this lotion. Also, use pure water when you give her a bath. Stop her baby wash for a while.

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It sounds like she probably has clogged tear ducts, if her eyes aren't red. My daughter has that and my doctor said to use a warm washcloth and rub the corner of her eye with our finger to help open the duct. I'm not sure that there is anything you can do about the baby acne. My daughter seemed to have a little acne and some eczema on her face and i used palmers cocoa butter face butter and it all cleared up.

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Now, this is an old time treatment for the matted eyes. I was horrified when my mother did this and almost got into a fight with her when she did it. She took a wet diaper off and rubbed the baby's eyes. It was gone and had no more problems until the baby got a cold later. Since it worked on the first baby, I used it on my other 3 when they had the same problem. Now I don't know about the disposable diapers as back then we only had cloth diapers. I am 70 now so that should tell you how long that has been. My oldest is 53 and I did show her the same thing with my first grandchild.

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We used Dove unscented soap on our son's face. I was super careful though not to get it near his eyes. It helped a lot. He has ezcema so I couldn't use the baby soaps. As for the matted eyes- warm washcloths work for us. I don't rub I dab. Your daughter could have an eye infection. My daughter got one at 2 weeks. Good Luck and congratulations on your second blessing!
V.

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Hi L.,

I had the same problem with my daughter when she was around the same age she is 10 months now. But I took her in for a check up and showed the pediatrician it turned out to be she was allergic to johnsons baby shampoo as soon as I stopped using it her rash went away. I hope I was of some help..wish you the best of Luck!

Mia

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Not sure about the matted eyes, I would probably have that checked out, but the acne is normal, I think. My youngest had it pretty bad, but outgrew it. I'm just hoping it doesn't mean he'll have bad acne as a teenager.

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For matted eyes, clean with warm water and a cotton ball gently masssaging from the tear duct out. My little man had a lot of eye gunk for the first 15 months due to a narrow tear duct and this method worked very well.

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One of mine had a major case of baby acne! My pediatrician told me to buy a small travel sized bottle of Head and Shoulders Dandruff Shampoo. Mix a little dab of the shampoo and some warm water in your hand and very carefully dab it on the baby's face where the acne is. Then take a soft, warm wet wash cloth and gently wipe it off. And it goes without saying to be very careful not to get any in her eyes. After a few days, totally did the trick!

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give it time :) the acne will go away, use a warm washcloth to wipe her eyes after every sleep cycle :) don't use soap on her face.

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I would say watch out for allergy related triggers. It could be products you are using on her during nap time and even into food related allergies (milk in formula or many things that you have in your breast milk). However, I am a very worrisome mom as both of my kids have bad reactions to many soaps and such and one of them has lots of food allergies. I pray that neither of those would be the culprit, but just something to keep in mind if nothing else works.

Good luck and congrats!

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The milk is on the sheets, from your baby's mouth this sometimes causes the acne, put a clean pad under his face and wash his face with a warm cloth after meals and before bed. Hopefully this will help. Some of this is normal for newborns.

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I myself have clogged tear ducts and some sort of dry eye disease (can't remember the name of it), so I have to do eye scrubs every night before bed. I use Johnsons baby shampoo on a baby wash cloth since they are so much softer. I start at the corner by the tear duct and scrub in a circular pattern to the outter corner of my eye.

When my son had the same issues as a newborn, I recognized it right away, and began the same treatment sans shampoo. It worked great & was cleared within a couple of days. He's 4 now, and I've only had to do it for him a couple of times since when his allergies have gotten bad.

Best of luck and congrats on the new little girl!

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Lacrimal duct is clogged. Both my sons had this reccurrent problem, its typical in newborns and they usually grow out of it eventually. In the meantime he will need eye medicine to clear up the infection (erythromyacin at first, they try others if it doesn't work). To keep it from recurring your pediatrician can show you how to massage the ducts. If it keeps happening after the nine month mark you may need to see a pediatric opthamologist. My eldest needed a VERY MINOR surgical proceedure at 16 months as he still had the problem. Don't listen to statements about putting anything in the eye but eye drops, anything else will cause an infection.

As for the baby acne, my youngest had THAT problem and we were given a very mild steroid creme which cleared it up right away. Our pediatriccian told us to just use it anytime it started to crop back up and by 3 months our youngest had totally outgrown the problem.

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The baby acne is soo normal at this age! This is when they get it and it can last for 2 weeks or 2 months! Don't put anything on it. Just wash her face with a wet washcloth every now and then. They say if you try to do anything for it it makes it worse. My daughter had both of these issues. Your pedi can give you something for her eyes-she probably has clogged tear ducts-which again, are very normal. I know the baby acne is ugly-but try not to let it bother you. Most babies have it.

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