I've always gotten a little bit of eczema here and there but over the last couple of months I've started getting it on my eyelid and around my eye. I went to the GP last week because it had gotten unbearable and it turned out that I had a staph infection. She put me on AB's to clear it up because it is so close to the eye and said that the best thing to use was Pawpaw ointment and to bathe it in a salt water solution. I've been doing that and it has cleared up heaps. I've also found in the past that the QV washes and moisturisers are good. But maybe you could also try bathing the area with a cotton ball and salt water solution after the bath to kill any nasties and then apply the pawpaw to protect and heal.

From what I know it is pretty common for eczema to get infected because it's an open wound that you can't help but rub or scratch. Not to scare you, but my little brother actually ended up with rhuematoid (sp?) arthritis when he was eight from the eczema on his legs getting so infected, there were a couple of weeks there when he couldn't walk and was in a wheel chair. So I tend to think that the best thing you can do is prevent any infection and that is where bathing it in a salt water solution works so well. HTH