Cradle Cap

Daniellef82 · Dec 30, 2009 3:25PM

Harry is really suffering from cradle cap and i keep getting different advice. Can anyone help? Its not so much under his hair but on the sides of his forehead. I put oil on it like the HV said, which didnt do much. Then i let it dry out thinking it would fall off and heal, but just went weepy and sore. I have to keep remembering to put scratch mitts on when he sleeps as this morning he has caught it and really made his head bleed :-/
Does anyone have any advice or have used anything that works?!
Danielle and Harry
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charlene85 · Dec 21, 2009 5:41PM

i'm afraid i can't really help as alfie hasn't suffered with this but my half sister had it when she was a baby and my step mum used a special shampoo, i can;t remember what its called but i think you can get some different ones for it. Have you tried any of those?

Charlene and Alfie
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Daniellef82 · Dec 22, 2009 1:59PM

Hi charlene, thanks i went to the docs with harry today and he perscried a medicated shampoo for it, which i hope will do the trick! x

downesy · Dec 22, 2009 6:28PM

Izzy's got it too, I've been using Dentinox cradle cap shampoo, but it doesn't have much effect at the moment!! What did they prescribe? x

lucylooandbabykins · Dec 23, 2009 12:09PM

Luen has also just got this on one area and i mentioned to hv earlir today and she said to use just olive oil?! xx

Daniellef82 · Dec 23, 2009 1:17PM

Yeah i was told olive oil, but it only made his head yellowy/green and him all slimy! He has got dentinox and it has really made a difference and we only got it yesterday!
Dx

lucylooandbabykins · Dec 23, 2009 6:11PM

Will buy some then was thinling of getting some earlier but werent sure guess it 1 of them many things that i ignore from the hv!! xx

Ella_F · Dec 30, 2009 3:25PM

Heya, LO had really mild cradle cap, so we tried dentinox and the first time we used it it made it worse but we used it again and it seems to have mostly gone...
Ella xx

Cradle Cap

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