baby skin rash - please help!

Ok, so I've googled and researched and just made myself more confused and paranoid... so I'll hand this over to you lovely ladies in the hope that you might reassure and educate an anxious new mummy.

2 days ago when drying DD after a bath I noticed that her forehead was really flakey - lots of dry skin rubbing off onto the towel. I put a little bit of organic baby moisturiser on it (rosehip oil, sweet almond oil and vitamin E). Now her forehead is covered in millions of tiny raised bumps and is quite red. She's got generally spotty skin on the face, neck and chest at the moment which the MCHN said was heat rash and that she just needed fewer blankets at night, but now this looks different and it's worrying me.

She has no fever, is very settled and happy and her skin doesn't seem to be sensitive to touch.

Does heat rash or hormone rash (I've forgotten what it's called) turn up on the forehead in a really intense concentration of bumps? Is there anything else you can think of that may have caused this? Or have I given my poor little mite an allergic reaction or something else because of this cream I put on her?

How do I fix it... if I can??

Any thoughts? TIA

newborns tend to have flakey skin every now and then I would perhaps check with a chemist to me it sounds liek a slight reaction I have a reaction to almonds that if I use a cream that has it in I sometimes get quite cracked skin HTH

Hi hun, i posted in the other skin rash thread, but how you described your DD's rash was exactly what my DD had on her face, it started on one cheek and went to the other, behind her ears, forehead, on her scalp. I think it was more distressing for me than her as she was still her normal self.

As I said, I switched to QV bath oil on the doctors advice & MCHN's advice and started putting sorborlene on her face. It got better after about 3 days then totally gone within a week. I continue to use just these 2 products.

Hope that helps :hug:

If it came up straight after you put the massage oil on, then I would say it is a mild allergic reaction, possibly made worse if the skin was already cracked or broken.

I would stay away from essential oils for a while and use something milder - some plain sorbolene or vitamin E cream just used sparingly should be fine - and as the previous poster suggested, consider adding some bath oil to her bath to help keep her skin moist.

DD2 had something similar, started like that. i thought she just had baby acne but the patches of it grew together and became red and sort of scaly, turns out she has eczema. if i were you i would just use QV wash and water, and sorbolene cream. if it worsens take bub to the GP. there is some really great moisturiser called MooGoo, which worked for us.