so yesterday morning we wae up and my 5 month old has cradle cap!! I thought she was too old for this! anyway, got some herbal oils and castile soap, and it looks alot better already..... so "cradle cap" sounds so negative. anyone have a suggestion for an alternate name that might be cute or funny to put a positive sound to this grossness on my babies head? i've racked my brain, but if you've ever seen it you know how uncomfortable it looks....
There was a great product years ago called "Cradol." You put it on two or three times a day, without washing it out, and for several days. Then you washed it out, and used a fine tooth comb to comb out the scales. It was great stuff (all my kids had cradle crap.) When I had Sage, I couldn't find it and tried something by I think Johnson's. She had a lot of hair and I couldn't get the crap out. It was like Petrolem Jelly. YUCK. I finally had to use dish soap, because she looked so greasy and the water didn't absorb into the hair. I have heard different ideas about Baby Oil. If you can find this Cradol product, it is the best. My girls had cradle cap well into Grade School. There is a theory that it is related to food alllergies. Some doctors will give Cortisone Ointments for it, but unless it is bleeding or really red and swollen, I wouldn't want to cover my baby's entire head with Cortisone.
when my god-daughter got cradle cap (she had TONS of hair), I used baby oil. I'd rub baby oil onto her head, wait an hour, put more baby oil onto her head, and after 15 minutes, I'd comb through her hair with a fine tooth comb....baby oil works beautifully.
Me too! Teeny tiny, it's a form of dermititis. New babies have a lot of excess "mommy hormones". Which is why they get pimply, too. It's scaly and yellow and crusty. Sometimes their eyebrows get it. Sometimes behind their ears get crusty and oily, too. I read somewhere that an ingredient in johnson's and other similar baby shampoos aggravate it. So I switched to Burt's baby bees buttermilk shampoo bar. It seemed to have worked. I always scraped my girls' heads while they were in the bath with either my nails (very gently of course!) or a baby comb. It's not dangerous, just unsightly.
also called it "cradle crap"lol. dd had it bad,ds didn't get it really at all and both had tons of hair.I've heard olive oil will soften it up but didn't try it myself.
My opinion would be that olive oil would be preferable to Baby Oil, as it isn't a petroleum product like Baby Oil is. I have read that adding more oil to the scalp can aggravate the problem, but I also know people who swear by this method.
I always used baby oil... it was messy and greasy and hard to get out. If I have more I'm going to use something else... it was horrible. lol I always said(even though they prob didn't care what they had) "you have the itchies!"to my babies rather than cradle cap unless it was to a grown person but I rarely talk to those, lol.
burt's bee baby oil is made with olive oil and smells great! Of course, plain olive oil is cheaper and just as effective, but i just had to mention the burt's bee stuff because i'm so addicted to the stuff, lol! kathy
um, this is gross but i though you guys would find it funny: When my husband got back from iraq, he has a massive case of cradle cap. He said they only got to shower once in a blue moon so im sure that has something to do with it. i soaked his head in hot soapy water and then scratched it off with my nails.
I've read that jojoba oil is excellent for cradle cap, though I haven't tried it myself. Jojoba is extremely gentle, hypoallergenic and noncomedogenic. I use it to moisturize everyday and it helped my acne...so from what you all have been describing needs to be done to get rid of cradle cap, it seems like jojoba would work for that too.
ooohhhh...that is so funny cause my friend gave me some of that Burts stuff when my little one was born and I always wondered where it was from....when she was teeny I found it a bit perfumed but she now doesn't react to it...of course it has almost all finished now!!! smells great that stuff though doesn't it though!!! my own remedy for cradle cap...olive oil!!! and that is an old fashioned one!
as far as I understod and have witnessed in real life and not through other peoples experiences it has generally been the case that the bad cases of cradle cap have been from a lack of scrubbing the head silly when washing the hair...but I can believe that there is times that slight allergies may contribute towards this so d not damn me for that please!!!
well, scrubbing your head is pretty hard to do when you only get a cold shower once ever three months. My brother in law (now dead) wrote that he was so desperate for a shower over there that he jumped into the euraphrates river.
