Baby | Hygiene & skincare

Bath time is a wonderful opportunity for both your children to explore and play together while they have fun, splashing around. Other baby games, such as 'peek-a-boo' have become well-loved classics for good reason - as well as amusing your children, they teach them important lessons about the world.
Read Learning To Be Playmates

My 10-month-old gets dry, irritated red spots on his skin that often seem to recur in the same places - cheeks, back and legs. They seem worse in winter. What causes this and what can I do?
Read What causes dry, irritated red spots on my baby's skin?

My 9 1/2-month-old son has such rough skin. I give him plenty of water and put lotion on him every day. His doctor even gave him some cream for me to put on him, but nothing seems to work. Is there anything I can do?
Read What will help my baby's rough skin?

My 9-month-old daughter has severe cases of water blisters on her elbows. Is this caused by eczema or is there another reason? What can I do to prevent this from happening?
Read What causes the blisters on my 9-month-old's elbows?

My son was diagnosed with a yeast infection within a month of his birth. A year later, it's back again. Can you explain how a male contracts something like this and how to treat it?
Read How do baby boys get yeast infections?

My 10-month-old daughter scratches her skin in the lower-back and buttock area like mad when getting into a warm bath. I use an ultra-sensitive baby wash that I squirt into her bath water. I can feel small bumps on her skin and try to stop her from scratching and pulling at the area, but until she has finished in the bath, the area is very red and irritated. She has left marks on her skin and would probably scratch until she bled if I let her. What do you suggest?
Read What do you suggest to help my 10-month-old's itching at bath time?

What is the recommended method for cleaning the ears of infants and then toddlers? Can you offer any other hygiene-related information or suggestions?
Read What is the recommended method for cleaning the ears of infants?

My 15-month-old daughter had the hepatitis B/Hib booster injection last week. She seems to have a lump on her thigh at the injection site one week later. Is this normal?
Read Is it normal for a lump at the injection site to last a week after the shot?

My daughter is 10 1/2 months old and nappy changes have become nightmares. It is like wrestling an alligator, with lots of screaming, squirming and crying. Is this normal behaviour? Help! There doesn't seem to be any physical reason for this.
Read Is it normal for my 10 1/2-month-old to scream during nappy changes?

My son is 14 months old and has some patches of scaly skin on his legs and sometimes also on his arms. I started putting moisturiser on him after his bath, but it didn't help, so I started using a 0.05 per cent cortisone cream. It still hasn't gone away. What do you suggest I do?
Read What do you suggest I put on patches of scaly skin on my son's legs?

My 7 1/2-month-old baby had five red bumps appear about 10 days ago. They disappeared a few days after she got them. Then yesterday she woke up with the exact same five bumps. This time they look and feel like ant bites, but the first time they were flat. They are in exactly the same place as five days ago. I have never had an insect bite reappear. What could they be?
Read My 7 1/2-month-old baby has five red bumps -- what could they be?

My 9-month-old daughter has atopic eczema. Now she's starting to get light spots - she has two different colours all over her body. The creases on her arm are really light but the rest of her arm is dark. Can I do anything to even out her complexion?
Read Can I do anything to even my daughter's complexion?