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My 3 year old has a terrible rash and has big red blotches all over his entire body and running a fever. We did get back from the doctor today and so far it looks like just a virus but how do you keep him from scratching? He is feeling a little better today but I want him to lay down and not scratch. I am putting on a cream to help with the itching but it seems to take care of that area and moves to another part of his body. Other than hold him all day which is what he wants and I am happy to hold him as much as he wants but there is still my oldest who needs my help, meals to cook and so on. Any suggestions?
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Aww...that's rough!!
Socks on his hands? Or mittens? Bandaids on his fingers? Hard to keep them on if he's adamant about taking them off, but might be worth a try.
Did you try any calamine lotion? Sometimes those creams don't work for my kids but the calamine sometimes works. Or maybe a warm bath in baking soda if he's allowed to do that?
Hang in there!
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I am into bribery these days so I think I would say that DS is starting with 10 m and ms (or whatever) and say he can have them all if he doesn't scratch, but you will take one away every time you see him scratch! or maybe it would be better to give him something he likes for every 2 hours he doesn't scratch (did I mention I am into bribery...bad parenting, perhaps, but it works with DD!).
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I vote for bribery. Find him something that he never ever ever gets to do, that takes both hands, and let him do it all day.
I have a friend who doesn't even have cable TV or internet at her house, let alone video games. When her kids got the chicken pox she rented a Nintendo system and every two-player game the rental place had in stock. It worked. I don't think her kids even LOOKED at their bodies for a week!
I don't know if that's feasible for you, but it sure helped her.
Or is that "distraction"? I like that term better than bribery!
Call your dr and ask if you may give him benedryl elixer. This will help with the itching. Hives roam; that is, you treat one section and *bing* that section is no longer a problem, but they pop up somewhere else. If it is a stable rash (non-roaming :D ) then use the anti-itch cream. If the cream you've been using has benedryl in it, ask the dr if it is ok to give the cream and the elixer at the same time. We were told by a nurse that you shouldn't do both at the same time, but the dr didn't say that, so don't know. Hand puppets can give one's hands something to do. If you don't have puppets, make some from old socks, gloves, mittens, or oven mitts, whatever you have. Be sure to clip his nails, too. Find games or toys that use his hands so they have something to do and his mind is occupied. :) Have fun!! LOL Hopefully it will go away SOON. :flowergift:
Thank you all for your suggestions! I tried the socks and he kept pulling them off. The cream I used was a very short temporary help. Lets just say it was a rough night last night for the 2 of us. Dh was totally oblivious.....lol He got up this morning with many hives still but this afternoon they are finally almost gone....YEAH!!! He actually feels better and is currently playing outside.My very rambunctious little boy is back!
I'm glad he's feeling better. We took JD in once when he was about 10 months old, he kept having hives, but we didn't know that's what it was. EVERYTIME we'd get in the exam room they'd go away! We'd get home and poof, they're back!It took 4 trips for us to get the doc to see it and then just to find out it was hives, and probably from detergent...so at least I found out what it was!
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Yeah! I'm glad your Ds is doing better. Hives are th pits. Our youngest son had a batch this summer. Trip to ER (it was a weekend evening, of course!) to find that we couldn't figure out what triggered them and the dr said that they would probably mostly subside and then flare up again for up to the next 7 days. :eek: They did, too. But happily they've been gone for months now.