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02-01-2010 06:49 PM |
Originally Posted by janarae:
I'm sure we have all had this happen but I was wondering what you do in response to this. I have one little boy (he's not quite 2) who suffers with excema & gets it on his bottom also (it is not diaper rash). He gets it so bad he will scratch & it will make it so much worse. Their pediatrician has told them to use Aquaphor ointment/lotion to help control it. Mom will bring some for me but when I run out & let her know she is slow to replace it. Last week he had it even worse as he'd had diarehha (per mom) over the weekend & it irritated the problems he was already having. So he was itching like crazy & his bottom was broken out so bad. I told mom 2x I was out that week. I ended up using the store brand of it that I bought for my own son & even though it is a store brand it was still $8 a tube!!!! Anyway, I guess the poitn I am making is if I were the parent & I knew my child had this condition I would be proactive & do all I could to stop it from getting worse. And yes, it may be inconvenient to run out & buy it but I wouldn't let me child go without. I even made a point of telling her I was using my own that I had purchased for my own child & it didn't even make her flinch. I guess I don't get some parents. So what do you do when a child runs out of something & the parent is supposed to provide it? I won;t charge her for what I used although I feel I have a right to, I likely used 1/2 of my tube of Aquaphor on him last week.
That's a hard one. Maybe tell her that if she doesn't provide you with any then your going to have to charge her $20 and you will replace it yourself.
That said, if he has eczema that bad he needs to be using a steroid cream on it to clear it up. Eczema is not very common in the diaper area, so it is likely something else causing his rash. Eczema more typically causes a red, itchy rash on a child's cheeks, arms, and legs. It might be a yeast infection.
My son has eczema and I had a doctor show me in the medical book the page about eczema and it showed photos how it was no in the diaper area, she made a point to telling me that it would not be in the diaper area, so I wouldn't think a diaper rash was eczema.
Here are a few links (all saying that it's not normally in the diaper area):
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weekl...iaper_rash.htm
http://www.uptodate.com/patients/con...rAHHNqmCOJqF1t
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/11/T081800.asp
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