Our baby was born with very tiny white dots on his cheeks. We didn’t know that a newborn could have acne! Yes, it’s called baby acne and I thought it would go away within days. But it did not. It only got worse and I could not stand seeing my newborn’s cheeks so red and sore.
I looked for an answer online and I read on a forum that cold compresses of Chamomile Tea would dry it out in a few days. Tea is a natural astringent and that’s what you want to use on your newborn baby’s brand new skin.
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What to do?
1. Prepare a bag of chamomile tea every other night and put it in the fridge in an airtight container.
2. Soak a cotton ball in the cold tea and pat your baby’s cheeks around 4 times daily.
Like a miracle!. The acne was gone for good within a week.
It is important to prepare a new tea bag every other day because it goes bad, even in the fridge.
As an “added bonus” it helped me refresh -not cure- my baby’s eye. He was born with a clogged tear duct and the chamomile compress would soothe his eye and relieve the redness.
It’s worth trying, you could never go wrong with natural and organic treatments.
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