Reaction to sun cream? I think? See photo

[givemesomewine]

Hi all

Nursery put sun cream on my little boy on Monday. I picked him up and his face was all dry, and he said it was itchy.

The texture is bumpy (skin colour bumps) and is so dry. I can only assume this is a skin reaction to sun cream?

I'll include photos.. and I've also done an econsult with the doctor.
I've been using his moisturiser on it to try help the dryness but made no difference.
What do I do? When will this improve? We're on day 3.

Please help!

Looks like it could be prickly heat. The sun cream may have blocked his sweat glands when he was hot and sweaty in the sun.
If you are concerned, ask if you can provide your own sun cream that you know is safe for his skin.

I would speak to a pharmacist rather than wait for a Dr, they can recommend what to put on it today.

I react to an ingredient in certain sunscreens. Not worked out what it is but it's in Nivea and Soltan.

I use ultrasun. Very pricey but only needs applying once a day so that would get around nursery staff applying their stuff.

Oh good point! Maybe! It's super dry and textured though?

I've provided our own sun cream now. He never had this issue with their sun cream last year so didn't consider supplying our own until now.
Thank you

Good idea, I do have a doctor phoning me later I just got a call

Thank you! I shall look into this brand.
What happens when you get a reaction? Is it similar to this? And what do you do for self care?

It seems very similar. The skin on my face goes rough, bumpy, ever so slightly red. It feels irritated too.

It tends to be ultra sensitive for a while (days) afterwards and the skin around my eyes takes a while to recover. I wash my face using a gentle bar soap (I appreciate this won't be easy for you to do though so I'm not really suggesting it) to make sure any remnants of the cream are washed off.

Aveeno skin relief was recommended by my GP at some point as being gentle enough to use near my eyes.

Re sunscreens, I use the specific face sunscreen by ultrasun on my face and then the general 'family' one on the rest of my body.

If you want to test if it is a sun cream I would put some on his back before bed in a cross so you can see if he gets a rash where the suncream was

My daughter gets sandpaper like rashes in response to her allergens and they can take 4-6 weeks to go completely. We have a steroid prescribed but usually daily aqueous cream and antihistamines is enough to deal with it. It possibly would go quicker with the steroids but as long as it's slowly improving and not bothering her out drs are happy with the slower approach. Within 2 weeks it's usually a lot better

Yes, both my children get rashes from certain suncreams and it looks exactly like that. Feels sandpapery too.

The Nivea babies + kids sensitive one in the white bottle works well for us.

Yes, my DC both react like that to some sunscreens. It's trial & error to find ones that work.
Mine are both fine with Nivea Kids & Childs Farm.
Have reacted to lots of others though.

Both me and my DS react to certain sun creams. I'm ok with the piz business sensitive at the moment.
I was actually hospitalised on one holiday I reacted so badly - raised itchy hives all over and hands, feet, legs and face swelled quite badly so do be careful.