It is such a relief when you look at your sick child laying there asleep after an uncomfortable day. You are concerned but you hope that tomorrow is better than today was. Here are a few things that you can do as soon as he wakes up that will help you both have a better day tomorrow.

As soon as he gets up in the morning you want to begin his moisturizing treatment. Give him a bath using a bath salt that is good for eczema. I would even go so far as to say wake him up earlier than he usually gets up. You are working on something, and not just letting life come to you. So do some things that are irregular. Get on the offensive side of this fight. You already know what to do, you just need to do it. When you wake him up earlier, he will recognize that you are on top of things and it should make getting his cooperation that much easier.

A good morning exfoliation of last night's dead skin that is on him is a good place to start. The treated eczema bath will rehydrate his skin and bring it back to the correct ph balance, and set the stage for a good day of skin detoxification.

What you are doing is getting a jump start on anything that could make it a miserable day. Have you ever been in the hospital and noticed that when the nurses wake you up early and clean you up before breakfast you just have better days.

After the eczema bath treatment is complete put on some clean wraps. I say clean wraps because I would have expected you to have had him sleep in a wrap. The wrap from the night before should be dry now and any medicants involved would have been absorbed. You do not want to use the same wrap because dust mites would have already set in by now. Get one of the clean wraps that you keep in the freezer.

This morning's wrap will get that moisture into his skin again. You can use your judgment to decide based on your planned activity for the day when you will want to take the wraps off so that his skin can get some fresh air. But you will want to continue using the wrap until the flare up has abated.

After clean up and rewrapping, find an activity for him that will let him be still but also distracted from any itching that might be around. When I was a child, Sesame Street did it for me. Once Sesame Street was on I was in front of the TV, and nobody or anything else really mattered at the time. So find out what it is that will capture and hold his attention and go from there.