Last night after returning from the teen "OVERFLOW" at church, he said that he had blisters on his hands. I asked "from what" and he stated it was from the sun. "You have to be kidding me, you didn't get THAT sunburned today" was my response. I just ignored the whining that came after.
Yesterday from 10 a.m until 3:30 we were at Keys Field for our weekly book study. The kids played baseball, basketball, and skated at the skateboard park. Now he did get some sun but it really was not even enough to make his hands red.
Finally last night I took a close look. They were indeed blistered. He has eczema on his hands and it is quite bad. The doctor claims it is not eczema and just dry skin but frankly I don't believe him. It usually goes away for the summer but this summer it has become worse. I feel very bad for him.
I put some cream, Neosporin, and socks on his hands last night. When he woke up this morning the blisters were HUGE. Shockingly HUGE. I drained them and put on more Neosporin. About an hour later the blisters returned.
(the picture is about an hour after the blisters had been drained, now his hands do look a little red but most of that is from the eczema - the first knuckle on his fingers gets really red and sore. You will notice at the top of the picture there are more blisters) His hands are not really even red. They do look very sore, however. I am glad that we don't have plans to go to the ocean this week because I would not want him in the ocean with all those blisters, or a lake with all the bacteria.
4 comments:
holy crap!
I used to burn and blister, is why I'm an SPF 45 person now. That hurts so much.
I have scars on my shoulders from a sun burn I got when I was like 3 and my parents took us to the statue of liberty and I was wearing a sundress. I figure they doomed me to have skin cancer that day, so I don't mess around with the sun.
Of course, I live in a considerably sunnier climate than you do.
I feel so bad for the tourists who come here and have no idea you can get a significant burn in 15 minutes on a cloudy day.
He needs aloe vera and tee tree oil. I'll send you a link to the product we use.
http://www.jason-natural.com/products/sun_aloe_tea.php
the second product on this page. We call it blue goo! Works great on rashes, burns, fire ant bites, mosquito bites. Well worth the ridiculous cost, because it works really well.
We find it at health food stores here.
Ouch! Poor kid! That's what I look like when I get into poison ivy, so I know it must be very uncomfortable for him. Hope it clears soon!
If your doctor doesn't recognize that redness as eczema he is a moron. Try to get him to either a dermatologist or an alergy doctor - ecxema is an alergy response. My daughter has it. There are very good skin creams to treat it. He should not have to suffer like that, and it is indeed painful.
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