very dry skin!? what to use?

[kateandfelicity]

Hello,

DD has got really dry skin on her legs and arms, i tried massage oil from waitrose, and have now moved on to baby lotion - is there anything else i can use that is better, it just does not seem to be improving much?

thanks

Kate

[mckenzie]

best to use aqueous cream or if that doesn't work ask your doctor for a prescription for a thicker cream the name of which has completely escaped me now. sorry.
Your local pharmacist might know if not. You might even be abel to buy it over the counter.

[brimfull]

depending on her age ,eucarin cream is good

probably best to ask dr or pharmacist.Ask the chemist for emulsifying ointment,cheap and effective but quite greasy.

[uwila]

Oilatum is nice (but expensive). I buy it for my almost 3 year old but must confess I've been know to pinch it fo myself.

[mckenzie]

emulsifying ointment is what i was trying to think of! It is greasy isn't it but I just use it at bedtime so tend not to mind too much.
It's definitely done the trick for 11 month old DD.

[Twinkie1]

Hi

Long time since I have been on here but was going to post today about a cream called Aveeno - it has in the last week changed our lives - well our sons (15 months) mainly - if you exposed his limbs or his torso he would immediately start scratching the skin which was hideously dry and flaky - he had to have his nails cut every other day to prevent him scratching so much he broke his skin but after 2 days of using Aveeno cream his skin is lovely and soft and you would never believe he had had a skin problem.

We had tried aqueous cream, diprobase, dermol and lots of other lardy type things but Aveeno is super - doesn't seem to stain everything it touches like most emolients as I think it is just an intensive moisturiser with wheatgerm colloids in!!

HTH

Twinkie X

[katetee]

As Twinkie said Aveeno is fantastic, we use it for dd and dh, both have bad eczema, it soaks in really quickly and moisturises beautifully.

[kateandfelicity]

thanks so much guys where can i get aveeno from? boots???

[louise35]

Try aqueous cream. Its quite cheap to buy from what I can remember and I think you can also get it on prescription, my GP used to give it to me when I was pregnant and suffering from very dry itchy eczema. I remember it being very soothing. It usually comes in a very large tub so should last ages.