Please solve our mystery.

I'm currently accepting ALL suggestions as to this plague running through my little guy's body. As documented earlier today, Ben's face rash was finally almost gone. This was amazing since his face has been in such bad shape for so long now. So I'm like, "Ooh, let's document this occasion with a picture!" I guess I jinxed us, because I put him down for a nap right after that picture and this is how he looked when he woke up:





HELP! I'm so frustrated and so tired of seeing my little babe like this. :( He's been allergy tested and he's only allergic to eggs and peanuts. I've scrutinized everything that's gone in his mouth for a week now, and there hasn't been a trace of either. I thought maybe it could be something in his crib, but I just washed his sheets over the weekend with the same detergent as always and he slept in that same crib all weekend, when his face improved. I just don't get it. He ate his normal breakfast this morning.


Yeah, kiddo. I feel ya!



UPDATE: Since this post gets a lot of traffic from people searching about face rashes and I get emails every week about it, I'm going to update it here.  My son struggled with these face rashes for around 5 or 6 months.  They got much, much worse before they got better.  I'll never know for sure what caused them, but I'm 99% certain it was eczema and I believe it was brought on by food sensitivities.  We did an elimination diet that really seemed to help that you can read about here.  I've since learned that eczema is usually the body's way of expelling something it doesn't like (a toxin), which is why we went through the elimination diet.

This article is obviously a holistic-skewed article, but it's one we very much found success with.  Our doctor tested Ben's zinc levels and they were incredibly low, so around the same time that we started the elimination diet, we also started supplementing him with zinc by doctor's orders.  Within a few days of these things, his face rash started clearing up and within a few weeks, was gone completely.  So, while zinc has not been proven scientifically to improve eczema yet, we definitely noticed a drastic difference, though we'll never know if it was the zinc or the diet.  He has since grown out of all of his food intolerances except for peanuts, which is a full-blown allergy.  At 3.5 years old, he now has no eczema to speak of.  We treated the last of his eczema (behind his knees) with Arbonne, and literally overnight it was gone.  You can read about that here.

Good luck!  My heart goes out to anyone who stumbles across this post who is also struggling with these issues.