The last couple of days has been significantly difficult for Maddi, he has been red,wet, itchy and screaming poor baby. The last time we went to the allergist he prescribed Desonate, that didn't work for him so they prescribed for him Desonide for him which is still not working. I have gotten the suggestions to bathe him in Oatmeal tried that over the past week that didn't work.
I called my Pediatrician as we just didn't know what else to do and her answer was "I don't know what to do, I have no other suggestions" Over the weekend when we went to dinner I offered him a squished rice grain which I normally do, half hr later when we got home he was screaming, we ran to pick him up out of his crib and the side of his face was wet and sticky. It was actually his skin which was raw, or he had a reaction to something in my plate.
We immediately called the allergist on call and to our dismay we received the same answers that she did not know what to tell us as infant care was not her specialty. What now ??
I finally reached the allergist today who had us come in, he did more skin tests on him to check for allergies, including shell fish and again they all came back negative, so he is stomped he doesn't know what to tell us, and tells us to continue using the Desonide gel, as it is not strong enough to thin his skin. Which steroid creams sometimes do. We normally use Ammens powder on him as it seems to be the only thing that calms him down periodically so I asked the Dr if there were any long term effects of using it first one was that prolonged use of Talc can cause lung disease which I knew but never bothered to read the ingredients of what made up this product since we have been using it for generations :( Next was that bacteria eats corn !!! What the heck.. Normally behind his ears, behind his neck, the creases on his leg and behind his leg is normally wet, he mentioned that it's a great source for bacteria to grow which can cause an infection of his skin. LAWD HAVE MERCY. So now what??? I just now have to make sure that he is super dry and stop using the Ammens powder and hope and pray that he quickly outgrows this.
I will keep you posted
Chris
I called my Pediatrician as we just didn't know what else to do and her answer was "I don't know what to do, I have no other suggestions" Over the weekend when we went to dinner I offered him a squished rice grain which I normally do, half hr later when we got home he was screaming, we ran to pick him up out of his crib and the side of his face was wet and sticky. It was actually his skin which was raw, or he had a reaction to something in my plate.
We immediately called the allergist on call and to our dismay we received the same answers that she did not know what to tell us as infant care was not her specialty. What now ??
I finally reached the allergist today who had us come in, he did more skin tests on him to check for allergies, including shell fish and again they all came back negative, so he is stomped he doesn't know what to tell us, and tells us to continue using the Desonide gel, as it is not strong enough to thin his skin. Which steroid creams sometimes do. We normally use Ammens powder on him as it seems to be the only thing that calms him down periodically so I asked the Dr if there were any long term effects of using it first one was that prolonged use of Talc can cause lung disease which I knew but never bothered to read the ingredients of what made up this product since we have been using it for generations :( Next was that bacteria eats corn !!! What the heck.. Normally behind his ears, behind his neck, the creases on his leg and behind his leg is normally wet, he mentioned that it's a great source for bacteria to grow which can cause an infection of his skin. LAWD HAVE MERCY. So now what??? I just now have to make sure that he is super dry and stop using the Ammens powder and hope and pray that he quickly outgrows this.
I will keep you posted
Chris
OMG....I wish I could take this all away, the poor baby. The poor parents. I don't know what else to say. I thought the oatmeal would work for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping he will grow this out,because what else can u try. It's not food related so it has to be environmental....but what?????
Should only wear organic cotton based clothing??
The frustrating part is that if the trained professionals don't know what to do it just leaves us right back at the drawing board..
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