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MonsterKidz · 05/08/2019 06:56

Hi everyone,

After some advice/experience here.

We were out the other day and the weather was better than I had anticipated. I has our suncream in DC before leaving home and had some with me. After a few hours I went to reapply the cream and found the stuff i had with me didn’t have much left.

Trying to be diligent, I went to a shop and bought the only small bottle of cream they had. It wasn’t a brand we had used before to me but I used it on myself and two DC.

Yesterday, DC2 woke up with what looked like a heat rash. It got worse during the day and I took him in to the pharmacy for some advice and she figured he was having a reaction to the suncream. We got some piriton for children to help with the itching and some calomine with zinc oxide cream.

DC2 seems fine in himself except the itching. No other symptoms or fever, eating and drinking normally.

After a night of him kicking the covers off all night as he was ‘hot’ and itchy, we’ve woke this morning to the rash spreading to his face and scalp and legs, where it wasn’t yesterday.

Anyone advice? Anyone out there experienced this? How long did it last? WHat else can i do?

i feel so bad, I only bought it so he didn’t burn.

OP posts:
Icecreambythesea · 06/08/2019 21:05

When my little one had a reaction to suncream it took several days for it to go down. Thankfully the worst of the itching was over by day 2 and he was a lot happier.

narkedoff · 06/08/2019 21:12

My son is allergic to almost all suncream, when he has a reaction it's 2 days of vivid red rash all over the body (looks like scarlet fever). Then it dies down in colour but you see all the individual pimply bumps of the rash then by the end of a week to ten days of piriron and moisturiser the dry sandpaper skin is on the mend.

He gets the rash absolutely everywhere too, not just where the suncream has been.

For what it's worth we use Ladival kids or Eucarin kids (both great for sensitive skin or allergies).

Pinklittle · 06/08/2019 21:14

My little girl has the same reaction to all sun cream OP apart from ultra sun, it's a bit more expensive but well worth it :) hopefully changing the cream will work for tour little one too x

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