Anyone know of an *alternative to a wetsuit*?

[Chuffinknackered]

We have just returned from a holiday to Cornwall. DS1, aged 4, had a severe allergic reaction to the new wetsuit we bought him and was very very sore. Included two trips to hospital, oral and topical steroids and two trips to have a dressing applied and then reapplied to a blistered area (he is clearly allergic to the neoprene or a chemical agent that is used to harden the rubber).

Feel like the worst mummy in the world!
Until we have formal allergy testing (waiting for a referral from docs at present) we are looking for an alternative to a standard wetsuit...anyone got any ideas?!

chuffinknackered x

oh your poor DS!

cotton swimming trunks and a t-shirt? When I was little that's all we ever wore. DS doesn't have a wetsuit either and we spend a lot of time on the UK coast.

Wetsuits aren't really necessary are they? (unless, of course, he is a professional surfer, in which case, ignore me! )

lol!!!!
no...but we are rather strapped at the mo and it will be a trad british summer for us again this year. We found that last year he just got too cold with just trunks and a tee.

Mind you it will probably be peeing it down!

chuffinknackered. x

oh i forgot to say...thanks for replying!

You could try a rash vest and shorts underneath, but if it's something that comes off, then it'll probably leach through those in the water, so may have the same effect.

no worries

How abou t some cotton long-johns?

or full waterproofs? DS did this last year, wellies and all, it was so wet and miserable.