For a while we've been thinking that my younger daughter, almost 21 months, was allergic to dairy. When we cut out dairy her eczema seems to improve. When we were on vacation she didn't have much dairy the first few days, and her skin got better. Towards the end of the trip we discovered where to get chocolate milk, and then her skin got bad again.
So, we've recently begun making a concentrated effort to eliminate dairy. I was surprised to find dairy in some food items, like some french fries (McDonalds) and chicken nuggets. She was looking a lot better, but she was still itchy and scratching. So before bed the other night I covered most of her body with Cetaphil cream in the tub. The next morning, she looked like heck. Her face was all red and blotchy, as were her legs and arms, and she had dark circles under her eyes again. I checked the label of the Cetaphil to make sure there wasn't any dairy product in it, and saw that it has "sweet almond oil", among other things. It definitely seems like she is allergic to something in that, so now we're trying to figure out if is is the sweet almond oil, and what that means.
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