Comments on: Cradle Cap http://blogs.babiesonline.com/health/cradle-cap/ News & Information about parenting, pregnancy, and Babies Online's services Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: R.Henry http://blogs.babiesonline.com/health/cradle-cap/comment-page-1/#comment-1817 R.Henry Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:37:19 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/02/28/cradle-cap/#comment-1817 In my experience with cradle cap, if just left alone, it will spread and cause the baby's hair to fall out. If you scratch it out, it will come back worse than before. The best thing to do for cradle cap in my experience is to wash the hair with a shampoo called, Sebulex, every other day until it disappears. When washing the scalp, make sure not to scratch it, just rub the baby's scalp. Rub mineral oil on the baby's scalp two to three times a day and it will disappear without the baby's hair falling out. Some say olive oil but, it leaves a smell and stains whatever the baby is on. Some people believe that every baby's hair is supposed to shed but, in my family we have not had that happen to one child! Rubbing their heads with mineral oil daily and making sure they do not constantly lay on lycro material will help. It's even helpful to have them nap on little silky blankets since they do roll their heads back and forth while napping. In my experience with cradle cap, if just left alone, it will spread and cause the baby’s hair to fall out. If you scratch it out, it will come back worse than before. The best thing to do for cradle cap in my experience is to wash the hair with a shampoo called, Sebulex, every other day until it disappears. When washing the scalp, make sure not to scratch it, just rub the baby’s scalp. Rub mineral oil on the baby’s scalp two to three times a day and it will disappear without the baby’s hair falling out. Some say olive oil but, it leaves a smell and stains whatever the baby is on.

Some people believe that every baby’s hair is supposed to shed but, in my family we have not had that happen to one child! Rubbing their heads with mineral oil daily and making sure they do not constantly lay on lycro material will help. It’s even helpful to have them nap on little silky blankets since they do roll their heads back and forth while napping.

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