All Natural is Not Allergy Free

The other day we started putting Burt's Bees Thoroughly Therapeutic on Ben. I started doing this because we were absolutely desperate to find something that worked. We had been using cocoa butter and olive oil. Olive oil seemed to help, especially on his head, but we had to apply the cocoa butter all the time, and it still wasn't stopping the dryness.

The ingredients in Burt's Bees Thoroughly Therapeutic are: water, sunflower oil, vegetable glyerin, coconut oil, stearic acid (vegetable fat), beeswax, glucose (sugar), aloe barbadensis leaf extract, honey, orange wax, rosemary leaf extract, milk powder tocopherol (vitamin E), xanthan gum (natural thickener) sucrose stearate (sugar emulsifier), sodium borate (natural borax), fragrance, glucose oxidase and lactoperoxidase (natural preservative).

Anyway, last night, Ben started scratching, so I gave him his Zyrtec and put on Burt's Bees, but the Burt's Bees wasn't helping. It was making it worse. So we gave him a bath--before the bath we tried Borage cream, and that didn't help either-- and washed his hair in Dr. Bonner's Magic Soap Baby Mild. This contains water, organic olive oil, organic coconut oil, organic jojoba oil, citric acid and vitamin C. So far, this does not seem to be irritating his skin.

We tried Cerave. This did not help either, and we had to give him another bath. By not helping, I mean making the itching worse. At this point, I did not know what to try. But we had to try something, find something to soothe his skin and keep it from getting more dry.

I decided to try Aquaphor. We had tried it before, and it hadn't seem to help. Eucerin, which is made by the same company, made his skin turn red, so I thought maybe he had a lanolin allergy, but we recently discovered that these travel wipes that he has been using also contain Lanolin, and they haven't bothered him, so maybe no Lanolin allergy.

Anyway, the Aquaphor seemed to soothe him. But we won't know for a few days if really helps or not. Sometimes, it takes that long for an allergy to show up. In the meantime, I called his allergist, and we're going to try and figure out if the Zyrtec is helping by taking him off it and then giving it to him when he's itching to see if does anything. If that does not work, we will try children's Claritin. Also, she recommended trying zinc oxide on his skin. We're going to wait and see about the Aquaphor first.

But the goods news is that my shipment of Lucy's cookies came, in four varieties.