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allergic to plasters

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ch1134 · 21/02/2015 23:17

Ds (13months) has come up in big angry red patches exactly where the plasters were placed after his last set of jabs. Perfect squares where the fabric bit was.
I'm assuming he is allergic to plasters and there's no need to get this checked, but just wondering what I'd use instead in the future, were he to cut himself?

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ozymandiusking · 21/02/2015 23:19

Asda do some excellent sensitive plasters

DramaAlpaca · 21/02/2015 23:20

Try the sensitive plasters. My DS reacts as you describe to fabric ones, and so do I, but the sensitive ones are fine.

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ch1134 · 21/02/2015 23:21

Thank you both. We'll give them a go.

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mousmous · 21/02/2015 23:23

gauze and latex free medical tape.

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ch1134 · 21/02/2015 23:26

I might try that, it seems to be the inside of the plaster rather than the sticky bit.

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Butterfly13 · 21/02/2015 23:29

The spray plaster?

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 21/02/2015 23:29

I get this with the old fashioned fabric one, I had a huge square on my back after my epidural, I'm fine with sensitive ones, or the waterproof plastic ones, or micropore tape, I just mention it if I'm having any medical procedure.

LMGTFY · 21/02/2015 23:34

Ah what a pain for you, I'm horribly allergic to them, even the hypo allergenic ones set me off after a while. Try a few of the sensitive ones till you find one that doesn't leave a massive itchy rash, I find if I have to put one on I do so till it stops bleeding then take it off.

WellyMummy · 21/02/2015 23:38

Me too. Have been allergic to plasters all my life. It's the sticky bit (can even see where the holes were) and sometimes the gauze too. I've found some sensitive plasters to be OK. It's trial and error. The mostly likely to be OK for me are the white sensitive ones that are very thin with visible fibres by Elastoplast.
HTH, good luck.

feezap · 22/02/2015 05:40

My DH is allergic to plasters, he has always used lint/gauze and micropore tape which seems to work but this was after some trial and error. He tried the spray on plaster thing and it didn't affect him but he didnt like it (I can't remember why and he is a fussy bugger). As pp have said, perhaps try sensitive ones first and go from there, I reckon any others will be better than the ones you get at the Dr!

MiaowTheCat · 22/02/2015 18:25

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ch1134 · 22/02/2015 19:51

Thanks for the replies. Poor little thing still has red sores and the plasters have been off for 2 days!

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