Excema in/on/around ds´ ear?

[Maveta]

Ds has had very mild occasional excema since he was tiny, really just the odd patch here or there. Last winter he developed a crack behind his right ear (at the top around the curve next to his head) which did clear up eventually. Occasional dry flaky skin there (basically looked like we hadn´t washed his ear but it wasn´t dirt) but nothing else since.

A couple of weeks ago it came back then cleared up after we put some sudocrem on it. Now it´s back again and we went to the pharmacy and they gave us Bepanthol for it. Thing is he also now has a small spot just above his earlobe and also on the little nobby bit (can´t remember what it´s called!) on the side of your face in front of the ear. This bit is scabby, red, raised, a wee bit swollen looking (like a spot with no head) and weeping.

He quite happily lets us clean it and put cream on and I had a bit of a feel and it didn´t seem to hurt him in the slightest. Is this likely to also be the excema? Wondering if a doc should just look at it but don´t want to be all PFB about it.

I´ll probably take him to the doc anyway if it doesn´t clear up in a day or two but just wanted to know if anyone recognises this and what it might be??

[Furball]

Just check your shampoos and soaps for SLS or sulfar lauryl sulfate as that is a industrial cleaning chemical used in most high street brands of shampoos and soaps.

Boots sell a brand called little me and at tescos you can get halo n horns

which don't contain sls, it may help the skin not dry out.