jerzeygirl
06-28-2006, 03:24 PM
DS is 2 years old, and he's super-sensitive to mosquito bites. He must've gotten at least 8 of them last weekend in the middle of the day while he was in the back yard wearing mosquito repellant with deet. None of the other kids who were over seemed to be even mildly affected.
So now it's a week later, and he's still itching. And we keep going in this cycle. If we cover them with anything topical (calamine lotion, bacitracin, hyrocortisone, aquaphor), it works for a while but then he itches them until they bleed as soon as the stuff wears off. And it only takes a minute of not noticing before it's too late. We try to be diligent about watching him at home, but daycare isn't as good and neither are his grandparents who sometimes babysit, so we're always taking one step forward and two steps back. Long sleeve shirts help with his arms (until they roll up his sleeves for craft time!) and if we put band-aids on, the bites don't get worse, but they don't heal either. And i hate to give him benadryl all the time because that makes him drowsy. It's been over a week now, and he looks worse than when he started. =-(
Has anyone else dealt with a situation like this and found a way to help? I know part of it is that i need to give daycare a really strict set of instructions about what to reapply and when, but i don't even know what works best at this point.
So now it's a week later, and he's still itching. And we keep going in this cycle. If we cover them with anything topical (calamine lotion, bacitracin, hyrocortisone, aquaphor), it works for a while but then he itches them until they bleed as soon as the stuff wears off. And it only takes a minute of not noticing before it's too late. We try to be diligent about watching him at home, but daycare isn't as good and neither are his grandparents who sometimes babysit, so we're always taking one step forward and two steps back. Long sleeve shirts help with his arms (until they roll up his sleeves for craft time!) and if we put band-aids on, the bites don't get worse, but they don't heal either. And i hate to give him benadryl all the time because that makes him drowsy. It's been over a week now, and he looks worse than when he started. =-(
Has anyone else dealt with a situation like this and found a way to help? I know part of it is that i need to give daycare a really strict set of instructions about what to reapply and when, but i don't even know what works best at this point.