Baby Quasar is a treatment for eczema

December 15, 2009 by Marta
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Every once in a while, I have an eczema eruption on my hands. I can usually treat it by paring back my beauty products to the tried and trusted for a few days and dabbing on some Exederm. The eczema flare up that started about ten days ago refused to respond. Every couple of days it would abate and then come back worse than ever. By the weekend, I was in despair until I had one of those random thoughts: Baby Quasar.

The Baby Quasar is an at-home LED device that is mostly used for improving skin texture and encouraging collagen production. Lately, it has been doing a great job on my labial nasal lines. LED machines, at least the salon versions, are also very good at clearing acne and rebuilding acne scars. I was really putting two and two together to make five by thinking that Baby Q might help with eczema, but I was willing to try anything by then.

Much to my genuine surprise, my hunch proved right. I tried two minutes on the flashing light setting and four minutes on the 'green' setting. The effect was instantaneous. My skin (which had gotten quite tight and uncomfortable) relaxed, was less dry and flakey, stopped itching and many of the fluid-filled bumps subsided.

I found that the effect was long-lasting. I was able to skip Exederm for the rest of the day. I have repeated the treatment twice more and there has been an incremental improvement and I am still free of the need to use an eczema cream.

Although I am feeling pretty proud of my little flash of genius, I am not going to be able to patent this idea. It turns out that phototherapy - defined as "exposing the skin to UVA and UVB light using low intensity light emitting diodes (LED)" - is a well-known, although relatively new eczema cure that is gaining interest from researchers.

Baby Quasar's are not inexpensive at $449. However, it has proven to be much more versatile than I would ever have thought since I use it as an anti-ager for face, throat and decollete, and hands. I have even used it to treat muscle pain and now, of course, it will be on duty whenever eczema flares up. Subscribers to Truth In Aging's newsletters will get 10% off Baby Q at the Truth In Aging store.
  • 5 Comments
  • Stephanie says:

    Hey Marta,
    Thanks for writing about this. I have eczema and a medical condition which makes using steroids a problem. I'm excited to find a non steroidal solution!

    Have you used the Red to treat acne? Any experience with the Blue?

    Posted on December 15, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  • marta says:

    I haven't used the Blue Stephanie. My esthetician has had great success with LED and acne. I will get more details from her later today.

    Posted on December 16, 2009 at 3:07 am

  • Stephanie says:

    Any additional info from your esthetician?

    Thanks,
    Stephanie

    Posted on December 21, 2009 at 9:49 am

  • | Acneguy says:

    my dermatologist always prescribe me some corticosteroid cream whenever i have eczema. the corticosteroid cream really helps in reducing the itchiness and redness from eczema.

    Posted on January 5, 2010 at 3:08 pm

  • Stephanie says:

    Marta,

    I'm looking for effective eczema treatments, or preventative methods that do not contain steroids. I vaguely recall reading (in TIA) about a cream that was great for eczema and w/o steroids; the cream may have been Korean. Does this sound familiar?

    Thanks,
    Stephanie

    Posted on January 6, 2010 at 1:09 pm

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