Any ideas for getting eczema cream on dd with sensory disorder.

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She always hated having creams put on but as a toddler we had some chance of holding her down to do it.
She is 7 now and having a sudden very bad flare up. She really needs the cream but I cannot convince/force/persuade her.

I can't hold her to do it and if I try that she gets upsets and makes things worse by scrubbing at her skin.

Any tips/experience welcome.

Thanks.

Any chance you could put it on her when she's asleep (making sure it's warmed slightly first)?

An allergist once told me to use olive oil on DS instead of aqueous/ cetaphil/gunky Creme..... Amazing, haven't looked back, obviously need to still use steroid Creme for flare ups, but he so rarely has them now

Thanks for the replies. We use a prescribed emollient for the bath but it is the steroid cream I need to apply. I have a spray on emollient that she will sometimes tolerate but I need to get the steroid on her.

I might try putting some on in her sleep but she is a bad sleeper so don't want to risk having her up all night if she wakes.

mrslaughan I hadn't heard about using olive oil. I have a bottle from the chemist I got for her dry scalp so I'll try that.

zzzzz Love the paint brush idea.

Thanks all.

I just use the stuff I cook with. I now add a drop or two of lavender - bug started with just plain.
It was a Revelation as no longer needed to carry huge pots of Creme when we travelled.... And I swear long term it was responsible for basically getting him eczema free ( gets a patch once or twice a year now) as opposed to constantly managing it.

DD's skin has been fine for the last couple of years, always dry but with no flare ups at all. Now, probably due to the weather, it is as bad as when she was a toddler.

I really thought we had turned a corner with that at least.

She has several other issues and it is just so exhausting, for me and for her.

Would she wear dermasilk pyjamas? www.dermasilk.co.uk/

dd1 (7) has some sensory issues and a hatred of creams is one of her 'things'. we have had some success by playing 'spa'. Lighting scented candles in the bathroom, music on, bath,cream (semi disguised as massage) and some nail varnish or something else a bit 'treaty' if she's tollerated the cream.