Hi, our firstborn child has just turned 11 weeks and she has been sufferring from a skin condition since she was 7 weeks old.

Over the course of the last four weeks, we have seen doctors who have prescribed the following, each after a failed attempt: 1) quarterzone cream and dermeze + sorbelene all over body; 2) oral antibiotics + sorbelene. Unfortunately, none of these have helped. I'm concerned the quarterzone cream and oral antibiotics have harmed my baby?

A followup appointment today with the doctor has rendered her without an idea as to what is wrong and it seems the trial and error approach has ended up at a dead end...well, not quite, she's now prescribed another cream but I have decided to get a second opinion from another doctor tomorrow night before embarking on the next cream/ointment.

I'm hoping some of you mummies (or daddies as I am a daddy ) have experienced this or know of someone who has who can give me some advice.

Here are the symptoms:

1) Patch of skin just in front of the ear the size of a 10 cent piece peeled away leaving the skin raw and full of pus and just doesn't regrow skin. I'm worried she may now have a scar. It's getting slightly better after I decided to put a band aid over it as mittens has not helped...she keeps on scraping it away without the bandaid. I'm assuming it's itchy for her.

2) Whole body above torso has patches of redness that comes and goes...we believe it's worse when it's hotter but may not be the case. This includes the face.

3) Started to get a bit of pus coming out from around her nipples last week.

Looking forward to your replies!!!

Cheers,

Michael.