Night wakings cos of Excema

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DD 2 1/2 has eczma.

She has special suits and special pyjamas

We use aveeno int he bath and as a moisturiser.

I use chloraphemanie (piriton) and Vallergan.

I use steroids when necessary.

I have a special routine for the house and we have anti allergenic bedding which I wah evry 3 days.

On the whole I'm happy with our routine.

Some nights are bad though. Despite everything she still wakes so I have to cream her and try to cool her and give her medicine if she hasn't already had medicine. It then can take me an hour or so to get her back to sleep.

She often cries and scratches in her sleep and our sleep is evry disturbed.

Just wondering really who else has crap nights and how you cope with them. We want to ttc #2 and I don't know how I'll cope with dd and a new baby wanting feeding in the night. Only I will do- she won't let her father near her at night and screams in terror

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Wet wrap!

It's wonderful.

We are dry wrapping atm and she is better a lot of the time, it's just the occasional night that she's bad.

Would you be wet wrapping all the time then?

How long does it take to wet wrap?

Need to see the eczema nurse for her to show me how- she told me that this was the next step but I haven't been able to do it while the eczema was infected

We also wet wrap with Epaderm. It definitely helps stop the scratch itch cycle.

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Do you use syrups for the medicine. I ask because ds's skin was much much better when we started to give him half a zyrtec tablet instead of the syrup.

yep- has to be uninfected. Wet wraping was a dream. With lashings of emmolient. The hospital said to wet wrap with steroid, but even after we'd tapered off steroid I used wet wraps with emolient, really until the itching stopped. DS1 was very compliant at the time, didn't take long. did it at bath time

This was 6 years ago when ds1 had eczema herpeticum. We wetwrapped body, legs arms and hands. He slept all night with it. When we were being shown how to do it in the hospital there was another couple there who had their first nights full nights sleep following wet wrapping.

I only stopped wet wrapping when his eczema went btw. The bandages are expensive so well worth getting on prescription. Book an appointment with someone who will show you how to do it. Seriously it is fab, I don't know why they don't use it as soon as sleep starts to be affected.

In the morning their skin is all soft and gorgeous before going all crinkly again!

he has reacted badly to the Epaderm in the past.

Yes I'm giving her the syrups- it ko's her for a few hours but then she'll be scratching again later if its bad.

Will ring the eczema nurse to go in about the wet wrapping.

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Fingers crossed DD1 (same age as yours) is sleeping better at the mo even tho she won't have her feet covered. A fan in her room has made a big difference as has stopping her nap so that she is more tired at night in general.
We also have a baby (20 weeks) so am VERY glad that the sleeping has settled.
Good luck with the scratching and the TTC.

I am another wet wrap lover! We have the special garments rather than actual wraps. The bottom layer goes on damp (hand wrung) over lashing of emollient, then the dry layer goes on over the top, followed by normal pj's.

Ds's skin is looking really good at the moment, but we often revert back to wet wrapped in the winter when the CH goes back on. I don't wait for his skin to become really itchy, he only has to look a bit dry/flakey for me to begin wet wrapping again.

Yes, we have bad nights too. Whilst other mums are boasting that their little uns are sleeping through by 3 months, I'm the other way, we still don't regularly have a full night's sleep and ds is 3.5 years old. Maybe 2 nights of the week he'll sleep through.

Some nights it's due to the itching, other times due to the asthma or hayfever. There's always something. If it's the itching then we use Cetraben cream to soothe but sometimes it's so bad, we give him a cold bath even if it's 3am. If it's asthma then we give him his inhaler (or more like force it onto him a la last night) and if it's hayfever, we give him either Opticrom eye drops or Otrivine nose drops for children (but if his nose is really blocked, this won't help). Sometimes it takes just 30 mins for him to drop back to sleep and other times an hour or two.

Our just before bed routine is Protopic cream (he's been on steroids for too long now), Ucerax antihistamine, Cetraben moisturiser, 50 50 cream on top of that, Cotton Comfort mitten t shirts and their pjs, grobag. His bedding is washed once a week and pjs/t shirt daily at 60C using aquaballs in the wash. His room is vacuumed and wet dusted twice a week and he has an air filter in his room.

We left it till ds was 2.5 years to TTC number 2. I'm now 16 weeks pregnant after 3 miscarriages since ds was born. I had no problem conceiving ds. It's horrid because my in laws and my parents blame ds for causing the miscarriages due to the stress of looking after him.

I think with 2 waking up through the night, you'll get used to it and within a few weeks, it'll seem perfectly normal. Also, your dd1's eczema may well be a bit better by then. I certainly know that when ds was between 1 and 3 years old, things were pretty awful and all the docs said things would get better and I just thought, yeah right, but things have got a bit better so things may be easier for you by the time your second comes along.