Wet wrapping help

[harman]

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[bunny2]

Harman, I wet-wrapped ds for a year. We had good results when his skin was very dry, the wrpas seemed to force the moisture into his skin and it was always much softer next day. We also found that when he was very itchy, the wraps could help cool him down and ease the itching. However, ultimately his skin continued to deteriorate and we stopped wrapping. How has your dds skin got worse? Is it redder or drier or just itchier? If it is redder and possibly more inflamed, it might be infected eczema. We were told never to wrap infected eczema as it just encouraged the infection to spread. If this is hte case you should see your gp and maybe get antibiotic cream. Ds developed thrush under his wraps (it thrives in warm damp conditions) and this was why we eventually stopped treatment.

What are you using BTW?

[papillon]

Eczema
I am using almond oil with a very small amount of calendula / St Johns Wort tincture added.

Find Weledas calendula cream good also.

I not eating dairy at the moment to also see if this helps... and she has stopped scratching.

Read some info on other threads recently which mentioned other good creams to use.

[alison222]

When the exzema was worse we used steriod cream and then tonnes of moisuriser. We tried lots of different variations of both before finding one that worked. Personally DS was best with diprobase. other parafin creams were hopeless. Also found I had to repeatedly cover him in moisturiser at each nappy change when practical and this helped too.

[harman]

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[CER]

The tubifast didn't seem to agree with my ds. We think it just added to his problems. For example, on his legs you could see a very clear line where the top of the tubifast stopped. Everything below the line that was under the tubifast was red, whilst the top of his thigh was much less inflamed.

Could you try leaving the wet wrap off one arm or leg and comparing the difference after a few days?

[alison222]

Diprobase is just a moisuriser. Oh and you can use it with water as a soap if soap is too drying on your DD.

Tubifast might make her a bit sweaty - does it look like a heat rash?

As for her face - we never found anything to help this other than constant moisturising and cream. I was very cautious about the steriod cream and the consultant at the hospital said that maybe if I was to use it a bit more to zap the excema it would be more helpful - still I didn't like the sound of that and didn't. DS grew out of it at the age of 2 (combined with finding food allergies - not sure if the two were linked though) - Sorry I'm wandering off the subject here.