My daughter us always complaining about clothes being itchy

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Just like the title says, my daughter is 3 and has recently started complaining about her clothes being itchy. I haven't changed detergent and it's the same clothes she was wearing a few weeks ago with no issues. She is in a lot of distress and discomfort it seems and I think she has recently become sensitive to the feeling of the clothes rubbing on her skin and she just can't stand it. Even with loose clothing, it's the same, but this started with tights.

I'm wondering if other moms have dealt with this and how they've come out on the other side. Are there particular brands or clothes that helped, she has to wear clothes to nursery but wondering how we can make it easier for her to bear this.

Just wanted to add that when shes home, she wears just light Tshirts and knickers. She's always tried to avoid wearing clothes especially trousers but it's easier in the summer months as she can just wear shorts. It's much harder now.

Thank you so much for all these comments. I'm at work, so will go through properly later but wanted to add some more information and respond to some of the comments.

She doesn't have any rash on her skin, but she just keeps complaining about it being so itchy. Yesterday, she was telling my husband that the bees in her trousers were moving, bless her. She just seems to be in so much discomfort.

I always extra rinse our washing, so hopefully that's removing the detergent residue, i use non bio detergent for the washing. She currently uses Aveeno Dermexa as she had eczema as a baby and this was the only thing that worked for her, so we've just stuck to it. I bought some soft leggings to avoid tights, and she wore those for the first time today and the meltdown was even worse, hence this post.

I've gotten loads of good recommendations from here and will definitely try to incorporate these going forward.

We've tried this, letting her choose clothes before, but it is still the same thing. She sometimes genuinely wants to wear something but the minute it's on, she starts to complain, so I know it really is bothering her. Just a few months ago, she eas really loving wearing her dresses and tights but the last 2 weeks or so, she doesn't even want to see a pair of tights.

I just worry about her being cold in this weather, hence why I've been wearing longer bottoms

Lots of the advice here resonates with me (sensitive and allergic) and ds (autistic).

Whilst you probably wouldn't want to give her ongoing antihistamines I wonder if giving her a good few days dose of Piriton syrup or similar would help right now whilst the issue seems so severe.

I wish I'd taken a picture of DS outside one of those kiddy farm/adventure places wearing his linen trousers (full length), canvas trainers a long sleeved t-shirt .... in the snow. I got SOOOO many dirty looks from other parents but by then we'd given up on trying to force him to wear clothes he didn't want to wear. DH once forced a coat on him, took him to the same adventure place, and after 90 minutes called me to say that DS was STILL crying what should he do.... he took the coat off and neither of us forced it on him ever again!

He just came through the door from school... carrying his coat, with his gloves in his pocket. he tells me he's freezing. I had to laugh. I pointed out that WEARING the coat and gloves might be a better choice!

Did you pre wash the new leggings or wear them brand new?

If brand new, it could still be sensory, but I would give a bit more weight towards allergy because new clothes that aren’t well washed make me itch or give me horrible rashes that can last for weeks. They treat clothing with all sorts of things.

I always pre wash new clothes but this time I didnt, so you're right, it is probably the reason why today was worse. I'll implement all the good advise I've gotten here and see how we get on.