Sensitive Skin

A week after Aidyn's 4 month check-up, we thought he may be getting an ear infection. I called the dr and took him in the next day to be checked. Luckily, he was NOT dealing with an ear infection. He was just being fussy and had apparently "found" his ears. Weeks later, he no longer fusses like he did...but he has definately found his ears. When he is eating his bottle and becomes super relaxed, he now likes to rub on his ears. He doesn't pull on them like they hurt; he just touches them and rubs them with his fingers.


At that appointment, Aidyn had began getting little red bumps on his tummy and back that would come and go. I asked Dr.Gill and he reassured me that it was just a heat rash. Aidyn will breakout in this rash whenever he's hot outside or hot from being held or playing. He also had a dry, red spot on his left shoulder. Dr.Gill said the spot was just a patch of dry skin and to keep lotion on it.


After a month of following these directions, the "heat rash" was still present. Also, 2 additional dry spots have appeared on Aidyn's back and 1 is beginning to raise up on his tummy. This concerned me and so I called the Peds office on Thursday and made another appointment. I wanted a second opinion from a different doctor...just to be safe.


As it turns out, Dr.Gill was correct the first time. Dr.Taylor assured us that everything is ok with Aidyn. He just has VERY SENSITIVE skin. I'm not too excited about this "diagnosis", but it sure isn't the worse we could've heard...so not too bad I guess. Are new instructions are:

Rub a thin layer of Selsen Blue on the dry spots every night. In the mornings, wipe off the Selsen Blue. Replace with a little Hydrocortozone cream and cover that with A&D Ointment (diaper cream). The diaper cream is supposed to "protect" and keep the HC cream on.


We are also rubbing Aidyn down with Aquaphor "lotion" on his tummy and back everynight before he goes to bed and cutting his baths down to only 1 every 2-3 days. Aidyn had a bath Wednesday night. We didn't give him one on Thursday because we wanted to see how his skin looked Friday for the dr. He didn't get one Friday night because we were at a concert. When Aidyn woke up this morning, his tummy looked a lot better already.


I hope we can get the dry spots to clear up, but if sensitive skin is the worse we're dealing with, I can't compain.