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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.