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Eosinophilic Pustlar Folliculitis or EPS aka Fuji's Disease

Has anyone heard of a disorder known as Eosinophilic Pustlar Folliculitis (EPS)also known as Fuji's disease? Need to know what to do for a baby who is suffering from this. Symptoms are staph infections (severe) all over the skin, lesions, itchiness, and great discomfort. This started after giving birth in the hospital. Baby is 2 1/2 months old. Doctors say this is rare and really do not know what to do. They are treating it with cortisone. This is NOT working. Please any info. would help. -Laurie
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Herbal Skin Treatment alternating with Pau d'Arco Lotion on the skin. Pau d'Arco tea for bath water. For a baby who doesn't stay in the bath water very long I would make two quarts of tea. (Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil, add 2 tablespoons, rounded, of Pau d'Arco bark, simmer with the lid off 5 minutes, steep off heat with lid on 20 minutes, then let cool to an appropriate temperature for a bath. (Or let get cold and then warm at a more convenient time to bath temperature.)
Mom could take infection fighting herbs and let her body pass it on to the baby, but go with caution. If Mom or Dad have absolutely no lesions or staph infections on their skin I would recommend at least half an hour a day bare skin to bare skink contact with the baby so that their resistance to the staph can teach the baby how to resist it. All of us have at one time or another staph bacteria on our skin--only on occasion do we get sick from it. Mom can take good vitamins as well. Black Walnut Extract could be put into water and used to clean skin instead of soap. So could a tea made from White Oak Bark. Cortisone is not an antibiotic, not a disinfectant, so of course it won't do the job. If it doesn't do it in 5 days it won't in 50, but the Doctors feel their hands are tied and it is the only thing left to offer.
If this baby is not oversensitive to light, then little clothes and some sun before 10 am and after 3 pm. might also work. An afterthought: there are children who are sensitive to sunlight. They even burn when exposed to light from the sun--but not from artificial light. If they are sensitive to sun light they must also be protected from most florescent lights. (There is a new kind of flourescent light that does not flicker, that is less dangerous for these people.)
Doctors frequently mis-diagnose this problem and it can present itself as sores and lesions--almost as if the skin had been literally burned. They can get infected with staph and leave scars. Try to rule this inherited problem out--it would be much nicer to just have staph. -Marilyn Navarro