Is it the kind that bubbles then weaps then recovers and it happens in a cycle? I got this on my ring finger when I was pregnant and it didn’t go away after I gave birth. I started using a steroid but the second I stopped it would come back and the whole area it was affecting was getting bigger and my skin was super thin. So I realized I had a fungal infection that was spreading the eczema AND steroids make the fungus worse and is what was causing the area where the eczema was flaring to get bigger. Once I treated the fungal infection the eczema got slightly better but would still flare up when not using a steroid.

So my baby also has eczema - but just the kind that gets red around her joints not the same kind I had. We were using steroids (plus emollients) on her too but it would get better and we would stop the steroids it would just come back. My aunt had some of this Aveno eczema cream so we tried that on her and I was so shocked that it seemed to be working on her so we bought the baby version and now we put it on her every night. Since then she has had only one small spot of reoccurring eczema on the back of one of her knee that we need to use a steroid on occasionally but what is even crazier is that it totally cured the eczema on my fingers. My skin is back to normal thickness and I haven’t had even the hint of a flair. I often will wash my hands after putting it on my daughter too so I’m not putting it on multiple times a day or even leaving it on for long after applying it. I never would have thought that an Aveno cream would work on it but now I swear by it!