Cradle cap (infantile or neonatal seborrhoeic dermatitis, also known as crusta lactea, milk crust, honeycomb disease) is a yellowish, patchy, greasy, scaly and crusty skin rash that occurs on the scalp of recently born babies. It is usually not itchy, and does not bother the baby. ...
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Medications for Cradle Cap
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Baby Shampoo
Fewer patient posts reported that Baby Shampoo helped them when used for Cradle Cap (2% lower than average of other Cradle Cap treatments)
Dandruff Shampoo
Fewer patient posts reported that Dandruff Shampoo helped them when used for Cradle Cap (15% lower than average of other Cradle Cap treatments)
Vaseline
More patient posts reported that Vaseline helped them when used for Cradle Cap (51% higher than average of other Cradle Cap treatments)
Aveeno
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Hydrocortisone
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Aquaphor
More patient posts reported that Aquaphor helped them when used for Cradle Cap (34% higher than average of other Cradle Cap treatments)
Selsun Blue
Fewer patient posts reported that Selsun Blue helped them when used for Cradle Cap (18% lower than average of other Cradle Cap treatments)
Eucerin
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Aveeno Baby
More patient posts reported that Aveeno Baby helped them when used for Cradle Cap (65% higher than average of other Cradle Cap treatments)
Alpha Keri
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...soak a flannel in it and put it on my lo's head as she's in the bath - works a treat for her cradle cap, and hers was particularly bad. Her excema has completely cleared up too...
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...Pure Body Butters and that really has helped the redness and the intense itchyness I would get.
I ordered the shea butter for myself and It even works a treat on my sons cradle cap...
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...a wet was cloth. Then wash hair like normal. Be sure no to get in the eyes. After the bath is over brush through the hair with baby brush. This routine got rid of my LO cradle cap in one...
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...I think its because I used so much coconut oil on her while trying to get rid of her cradle cap. :) I love me some bald babies, but oh how I want to put a real bow...
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...of hubby, slightly off topic, because he found a way to get rid of her cradle cap and it actually worked!!! Olive oil and a comb, ladies...I couldn't have done...
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...tried olive oil with my DS cradle cap but my hubby hated ...shampoo DS hair with Dentinox Cradle Cap shampoo, which you can get ...supermarkets.
Within a week, his cradle cap cleared up ...
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I had cradle cap in primary school so, as ...crap...
My HV told me to use olive oil for cradle cap, but I have also been ...found worked was to rub baby shampoo into the baby's head and...
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