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Another post in which I turn to the Internet instead of my pediatrician
December 6th, 2007
Dear pretty readers,
I once again require your help. How do I dress a wound on a baby? Maddie’s a thumb-sucker, and since her bottom teeth have come in, she’s been cutting her thumb with them. This morning I noticed it was red and inflamed and open. I’ve been hesitant to do anything to it, because she has that thumb in her mouth frequently. I don’t want her to swallow a bandage or neosporin or whatever.
I finally bit the bullet when I saw how painful looking it was this morning. I dabbed a little peroxide on it, wiped it off, applied neosporin and wrapped it in the smallest bandage I had. She immediately pulled it off. So, I put on a new one and immediately gave her toys to play with. So far, it’s working, but it’s almost nap time. That means thumbsucking. What can I do to sort of protect it and let it heal and still let her suck her thumb?
Man, am I gonna hafta call the damn pediatrician on this one?
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Maybe a bigger bandaid would work better. You could wrap it around the thumb a couple of times to make it stick a little more?
Hmmm. This is difficult. Tiny thumb, tiny mouth, awkward boo-boo. I always used bactine liquid on Diva’s stuff. Perhaps some extra medical tape wrapped to secure the band-aid would do the trick. Good luck!!!
All I can think of is the commercial for benadryl or whatever with the oven mitts taped over the kid’s hands. I doubt you want to go that route . . . but if you do please post pictures
When you figure out how to stop thumbsucking, let me know! We have been through all that and still nada, of course just when we were making a little progress he gets a cold…
Our pediatrician recommended Eucerin, the thick kind that comes in a round expensive tub and is basically Crisco. It soothes skin and helps it to heal, but isn’t too bad to have the baby ingesting a little. In fact, I’ll bet CRISCO would help….